MENDEL: What shall we play? BERISH: Can I choose? MENDEL: Of course; it’s your theater. MARIA: Long live… — Elie Wiesel
MENDEL: What shall we play?
BERISH: Can I choose?
MENDEL: Of course; it’s your theater.
MARIA: Long live theater...What’s theater?
BERISH: When you do something without doing it, when you say something without saying it, while thinking that you did say, and you did do something—anything—that’s theater.
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MENDEL: No. It’s theater. There is a difference.
SAM: Really? What is it?
MENDEL: A circus employs only clowns.
SAM: So does the theater.
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AVREMEL: You came to us from Zhironov?
YANKEL: Were you there when—
MENDEL: Yes, I was there.
AVREMEL: How did you manage to escape?
SAM: There is always one singled out to escape.
YANKEL: A miracle!
SAM: There is always someone to call it a miracle.
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