This is my debut in the theater. I probably set this picture up and someone else took it. [I'm standing up above on the mountain ledge]. Below me is a woman who lived in the sea and uttered these incantations. I was to come down this steep cliff and throw a torch [?] down the trap door and she'd utter incantations and emerge. So what they did was to have a candle in a tin can. (Mind you this was my debut and in the first act, which lasted about 45 minutes, I was on stage the whole time). So the second night of the performance they decided that one candle was not enough light so they added more candles not realizing the candles would melt the canvas. So I started down this cliff and the wax began to melt and it looked like sea gulls had been there and of course it was hot and coming down on my head. But I didn't break; I kept on through the thing." (Roger Sturtevant, interview with Joyce Minick, transcribed in catalog sheets, c. 1977)