I wondered if by studying real life people...
and how they express themselves-
not what they said, but how they express themselves...
if I could learn something about the relationship of 
how you speak, and your identity.
First one I created in New York in the early 80s.
As an experiment. I did not perform all the characters,
I had actors and-
I would literally walk up to people on the street and say;
"If you let me talk to you for an hour, 
I'll invite you to see yourself performed
I know an actor who looks like you."  
I didn't care what they talked about- 
I talked to the lifeguard at the 63rd Street Y
wanted to talk about swimming lanes...
I talked to...
a hairdresser at a very fancy salon at the time, Cinandre,
about narcissism and mirrors.
I talked to Meredith Monk, the great composer
about Bartok, and the Jung- you know.. and the desert
didn't matter what!
And I played one character, woman named Julia
who I met in J.C. Penny's Administrative Offices
where I was doing temp work,
in a basement, 
and I loved how Julia talked. 
And so, you know, I did this show and
nothing made me happier to that point than the night
when all of the real people paraded in with all their friends,
and then my actors performed them and I performed Julia.
That night as we were leaving the performance,
everybody had left and 
I was walking down the street with Julia and her friends.
Down Leonard Street in the dark.
And they were like... her friends were saying to her; 
"Julia, you were the star, girl! 
Girl, you were the star!"
And... you know and it really fit into 
so many things I was thinking about when I wrote my thesis-
I wrote a lot about our role as actors, you know
should we be the star?
Or should the people be the star?
And of course, you know, back then...
you know, fresh out of...
thinking about things I was like...
It's for the people! Right?
We should be there for the benefit of other humans and so...
that's the end of my preaching about the matter.
