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The Opening

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  • Comedy
  • Monologue
  • 1 min
  • No gender marker
  • Adult
  • Beginner
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  • MOI No gender marker, Adult your role

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(An art gallery. Someone contemplates a white square.)

MOI

Magnificent. Absolutely magnificent. I understand nothing, but with rare intensity.

What moves me, you see, is the emptiness. No, the fullness. Well, the full emptiness. Very Japanese. Or very overdue for delivery, I can’t tell yet.

I’m told it’s a critique of capitalism. At twelve thousand euros, I’d call it: brilliantly argued.

Between us? I think it’s the wall. I think we’re admiring the wall and the painting fell off.

But say nothing. In art, being right too soon is the worst kind of snobbery.

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