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four saints in three acts
"Pigeons on the grass, alas. Pigeons on the grass, alas. Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass also pigeons on the grass. If they were not pigeons what were they." From 4 Saints in 3 Acts

Gertrude Stein wrote a number of plays, most of them abstract and hard to follow. Her most successful was Four Saints in Three Acts, performed as an opera in Hartford, CT in 1934 with an all-black cast.

She described the meaning of the opera as:
	"a perfectly simple description of the Spanish landscape."

'Four Saints' was really about doing 'nothing'.

"A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints in Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything."

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