Justin “Just Blaze” Smith: We turned the drums up a lot, like a good three or four decibels, but it felt good and I was like, “Why haven’t we been doing this?” if that’s where the excitement is supposed to build up, or that’s where it’s supposed to break down.
Adrienne Kennedy: Because it is, on paper, things that I can’t stop thinking about. And I still have my radio.
Smith: You can’t help it.
Kennedy: That’s a real place.
Smith: That was the point. [To someone off camera] What’s that? Oh, no.
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Kennedy: Yes, yes. Yes, and you walked up a back stairwell.
Smith: Yeah. So you weren’t going to bring it around the crib.
Kennedy: Most definitely. Because when you’re really young—you’re like 11, 12—you’re really like an empty palette.
Smith: But, what was your question?
Kennedy: We went to see the movies for five cents, and of course, it was a double feature.
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Smith: We never really had that conversation.
Kennedy: I wasn’t expecting to write a play. It’s so wild, it’s totally wild.
Smith: But it might not be. I mean, to be honest, I’m not going to say it’s never been done.
Kennedy: Oh, wonderful. Oh, I do. I do.
Smith: In that case, you’re now taking eight seconds versus five minutes, eight or nine seconds.