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LIVE WITNESS, 1992
Portland Stage Co., Maine
Dixon Place, NY
Two TV co-anchors try to perform their show, despite some very seamy and public rumors about one of them.
1
people wonder if we see each other socially
2
do they?
1
is it so hard to imagine?
2
I never tried
1
me either
2
I wouldn’t want to jeopardize the quality of our professional
rapport
1
I wouldn’t want to compromise the integrity of our
mutual objectivity
2
in a way we’re a good example of what’s going on here
we have the same relationship to each other that the audience has to us
we’re here simultaneously, but we’re not really together
1
sometimes I feel closer to the audience than I do to you
even as I talk to you, I’m really talking to somebody else
“Snappy ... mind-twisting repartee ... witty” -- New York Times