A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen

Author:Shawn Wen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946448019
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2017-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

M. ON VIDEO

He doesn’t translate well. His movements are slow. Disjointed. A bag of bones. Can’t hold your attention. You fast-forward through entire scenes. Did you go too far? Rewind. Sit through it again. He seems arrogant. And the silence is interrupted by a laugh track.

You can clearly see the pancake makeup, the fake eyebrows, his constant mugging. A stark reminder of what you’ve always suspected: he’s just a clown.

SCENE 12

He is buoyant. The stage floor, a tightrope, a millimeter wide. It bends and springs.

No. Not so. Walking against the wind, pretending to walk against the wind, he is less effective than you. You, on your way to work, proud as you plant your feet on the ground, step by step.

How is the breeze over there?

Fifty-seven miles per hour. Pedestrians

dodging branches.

Look at that one, tossed here and there.

He’d do and undo each gesture, as if forever tying and untying a shoelace.

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