Then and Now: Two Related Short PlaysNow (subtitled Soft Discs Don't Drive Hard Enough) takes place at a high-tech, futuristic employment office in Los Angeles, dominated by a super-computer named "Leslie." Programmed to give almost human responses, Leslie is both the nemesis and delight of the office manager, Mr. Worthmore. |
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ACTOR ACTRESS afraid audience basket beautiful better bootkins bottle of pills cape Carole Bromley comic computer makes cooing Computer Supplies cooing noises Cyrano de Bergerac desk DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE DRIVE HARD Electric pencil electronic employment office exits gestures give glance grampy heard homeless instructions Jim Bullock keyboard leaves Leslie Leslie's light lightbooth LOVE LUCY Luke Luckington Marty Cocker Marty takes Michael Weir Miss Bunson modum never Neville crosses Neville Smythe Neville turns newscaster nods North Hollywood Numbers offstage Okay puts reading Robin and Henry Robin Birdwell Roxanne Running Out Productions scene Scott Thompson Baker screen script shakes Smil Smiles SOFT DISKS softly speaks speech spray stage stares starts Strokes the computer stutter sweetums tape television tell theatre there's tree tutti frutti Vitameatavegamin voice waiting room What's wooo WORD IN MAKE-UP world's a stage Worthmore crosses Worthmore sits wrong Yeah