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Demotic 2004/2006 The Roman Forum Project 2003 Virtual Live 2002 The Roman Forum 2000 Birth of the Christ Child 1999 Still Lies Quiet Truth 1998 Silent Orpheus 1997 Orpheus 1997 The White Whale 1997 SLQT 1996 The Candide Campaign Gutter City 1995 LittleHamlet 1995 The Cake of the Desert 1996 The Cake of the Desert 1995 I Object 1995 Christmas 1994

The Cake of the Desert adaptation and visuals by Antoinette LaFarge In this short graphic nove, BigMan and LittleMan get into an argument over BigMan's inability to remember certain improbable events. LittleMan plays a tape of BloodyZelda to spark BigMan's memory, but BigMan only becomes enraged and destroys the recorder. LittleMan flees, and the piece ends with BigMan being haunted by ghostly voices. The text of The Cake of the Desert is based on a longer Plaintext Players online improvisation, the ninth from the Christmas series, originally done with a cast of four: Joe Ferrari . . . . . as BigMan Adrianne Wortzel . . . . . as Littleman Heather Wagner . . . . . as [on_the_tape], aka BloodyZelda Lesley Mowat . . . . . as stage [ cast and performances ] [ original series ]