My Minute With Andre

Minute 13:

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and this wonderful group of young men and women. And the forest he had found us was absolutely magic but, you know, it was a huge forest, I mean, the trees were so large that four or five people linking their arms couldn't get their arms around the trees. So we were camped out beside the ruins of this tiny little castle and we would eat around this great stone slab that served as a sort of a table. And our schedule was that usually we'd start work around sunset and then generally we'd work until about 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning, and then, because the Poles love to sing and dance, we'd sing and dance until about 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, and then we'd have our food, which was generally bread, jam, cheese, and tea, and then we'd sleep from around noon to sunset.

Andre: Now, technically, of course...technically, the situation is a very interesting one because, if you find yourself in a forest with a group of 40 people who don't speak your language, then all your moorings are gone.

Wally: What do you mean exactly?

Andre: Well, what we'd do is just sit there and wait--

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--and maybe I can give it to you."

Andre: So I said, "Well, if you could give me forty Jewish women who speak neither English nor French, either women who've been in the theater for a long time and want to leave it but don't know why, or young women who love the theater, but have never seen a theater they could love, and if these women could play the trumpet or the harp, and if I could work in a forest, I'd come."

Andre: A week later, or two weeks later, he called me from Poland and he said, "Well, forty Jewish women, that's a little hard to find." But he said, "I do have forty women. They all pretty much fit the definition." And he said, "I also have some very interesting men but you don't have to work with them. These are all people who have in common the fact that they're questioning the theater. They don't all play the trumpet or the harp, but they all play a musical instrument, and none of them speak English." And he'd found me a forest, Wally, and the only inhabitants of this forest were some wild boar and a hermit. So that was an offer I couldn't refuse. I had to go.

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MINUTE 11:

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And we talked about his wife, Chiquita, and his two children, Nicolas and Marina.

Andre: And I...I'd stayed back...

Wally (narration): Finally, I got around to asking him what he'd been up to in the last few years.

Wally: ...I'm just dying to hear it.

Andre: Really?

Wally: Really.

Wally (narration): At first, he seemed a little reluctant to go into it. So, I just kept asking, and finally, he started to answer.

Andre: ...conference on paratheatrical work then. And, uh...this must have been about...five years ago and, uh, Grotowski and I were walking along Fifth Avenue and we were talking, you see, he'd invited me to come to teach that summer in Poland, you know, to teach a workshop to actors and directors and whatever and...I had told him that I didn't want to come, because, really, I had nothing left to teach. I had nothing left to say. I didn't know anything. I couldn't teach anything. Exercises meant nothing to me anymore. Working on scenes from plays seemed ridiculous. I...I didn't know what to do, I mean, I just couldn't do it.

Andre: So he said, "Why don't you tell me anything you'd like to have if you did a workshop for me, no matter how outrageous,

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MINUTE 10:

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Waiter: Ready for your order?

Andre: Ah...yes. Uh, the aranygaluska. How...how do you prepare that?

Wally (narration): Andre seemed to know an awful lot about the menu. I didn't understand a word of it.

Waiter: Very good, I think.

Andre: Mmm...no, I...I think I'll have the cailles aux raisins...

Waiter: Very good.

Andre: ...the quail.

Wally: Oh, quails! I'll have that as well.

Waiter: Two.

Andre: Great.

Wally: Great!

Andre: And then I think, to begin with, the terrine de poissons.

Waiter: Yes.

Wally: What is that?

Andre: Uh, it's a sort of pâté...light...made of fish.

Wally: Does it have bones in it?

Andre: No bones. Perfectly safe.

Wally: Well...um. What is the, um, bramborová polévka?

Waiter: It's a potato soup. It's quite delicious.

Wally: Oh, well, that's...great. I'll have that.

Waiter: Thank you very kindly.

Andre: Thank you very much.

Wally: Well. And when was the last time...

Wally (narration): So we talked for a while about my writing and my acting. And about my girlfriend, Debbie.

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MINUTE 9:

Transcript:

Waiter: ...if you feel like sitting down.

Wally: Oh.

Andre: Yes, thank you.

Wally (narration): I was beginning to realize that the only way to make this evening bearable would be to ask Andre a few questions. Asking questions always relaxes me. In fact, I sometimes think that my secret profession is that I'm a private investigator, a detective. I always enjoy finding out about people, even if they're in absolute agony, I always find it very...interesting.

Wally: By the way, is he still thin?

Andre: What?

Wally: Grotowski. Is he still thin?

Andre: Oh, absolutely. Oh, waiter? Uh, I think we can do without this.

Waiter 2: Yes, sir.

Andre: Thank you.

Wally: What about this one?

Andre: Seven swimming shrimp.

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MINUTE 8:

When does a hug mean community? Are we all just playing unusual characters in the lives of our friends ? What's the first thing people see when they look at us?

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I remember, when I first started working with Andre's company, I couldn't get over the way the actors would hug when they greeted each other. "Wow. Now I'm really in the theater," I thought.

Wally: Well, you look terrific.

Andre: Well, I feel terrible.

Bartender: Good evening, sir. Nice to see you again.

Andre: Thank you, good evening. Ah, I think I'll have a spritzer, if I could

Bartender: Yes, sir.

Andre: Thank you.

Wally (narration): I was feeling incredibly nervous. I wasn't sure I could stick through an entire meal with him. So we talked about this and that. He told me a few things about Jerzy Grotowski, the great Polish theater director, who was a friend, and almost like a kind of a guru, of Andre's. He'd also dropped out of the theater. Grotowski was a pretty unusual character himself. At one time, he'd been quite fat, then he'd lost an incredible amount of weight, and become very thin and grown a beard.

Waiter: Your table is ready…

Andre: Wally

Wally: Wow! My God!

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MINUTE 7:

Is it possible to live in your art, and your life?

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Andre's tastes used to be very ascetic. Even though people have always known that he has some money somewhere. I mean, how the hell else could he have been flying off to Asia, and so on, and still have been supporting his family.

Wally (narration): The reason I was meeting Andre was that an acquaintance of mine, George Grassfield, had called me and just insisted that I had to see him. Apparently, George had been walking his dog in an odd section of town the night before, and he'd suddenly come upon Andre leaning against a crumbling old building and sobbing. Andre had explained to George that he'd just been watching the Ingmar Bergman movie "Autumn Sonata" about 25 blocks away, and he'd been seized by a fit of ungovernable crying when the character played by Ingrid Bergman had said "I could always live in my art, but never in my life."

Andre: Wally!

Wally: Wow! My God!

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MINUTE 6:

What price are we willing to pay, in pride, not in dollars, for our proverbial glass of Source de Pavillion? And is this for friendship or merely to honor the social contract? What gauntlet of opulence are we willing to walk through, just to be told that even our taste in fizzy water lacks class? ? Is not water, water?

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Wally: Uh, sir, my name is Wallace Shawn. I'm expected at the table of Andre Gregory.

Maitre D': That table will be a moment, sir. If you like, you may have a drink at the bar.

Bartender: Good evening, sir.

Wally: Uh, could I have a club soda please?

Bartender: I'm sorry sir. We only serve Source de Pavilion.

Wally: That'd be fine. Thank you.

Wally (narration): When I'd called Andre, and he'd suggested that we meet in this particular restaurant, I'd been rather surprised--

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MINUTE 5:

As a skeptic, is it necessary to be alarmed when a friend speaks of their mystical experiences. Is a believer in magic required to keep their wild discoveries to themselves? Are they asking for help or for understanding. What if what they say is true? What are you supposed to be, a doctor?   

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Wally (narration): But then, something had happened to Andre. He dropped out of the theater. He sort of disappeared. For months at a time his family seemed only to know that he was travelling in some odd place like Tibet. Which was really weird because he loved his wife and children, he never used to like to leave home at all. Or else you'd hear that someone had met him at a party, and he'd been telling people that he'd talked with trees or something like that. Obviously, something terrible had happened to Andre.Wally (narration): The whole idea of meeting him made me very nervous. I mean, I really wasn't up for that sort of thing. I had problems of my own. I mean, I couldn't help Andre. Was I supposed to be a doctor or what?Wally: Hello.Coat Check Person: Hello. There you go.Wally: Thank you.Maitre D': Yes sir.Wally: Uh

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