ABSTRACT
As an example here is a list of the sections of numbers in the epilogue to Wise Man:
1/. The hero's explanatory monologue. 2/. A fragment from a detective film. (A classification of 11., the theft of the diary). 3/. An Eccentric music-hall entree (the bride and her three rejected suitors - all one person in the play - in the role of best men: a melancholy scene reminiscent of the song 'Your hands smell of incense' and 'May I be punished by the grave' (we intended that the bride would have a xylophone and this would be played on six rows of bells, the officers' buttons). 4/.5/.6/. Three parallel twophrased clowning entrees (the theme: payment for organising the wedding). 7/. An entree with a star (the aunt) and three officers (the theme: the restraint of the rejected suitors), punning (by reference to a horse) on a triple volte number on a saddled horse (on the impossibility of bringing it into the room, traditionally, in 'triple harness'). 8/. Good agit-songs ('The priest had a dog') accompanied by a rubber priest like a dog. The theme: the start of the wedding ceremony. 9/. A break in the action (A paper-bay's voice announcing that the hero is leaving). 10/. The villain appears in a mask. A fragment from a comedy film. (A resume of five acts of the play summarised. The theme: the publication of the diary). 11/. The continuation of the (interrupted) action in another grouping (a simultaneous wedding with the three rejected suitors). 121.
