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PLAYER TWO I think liking each other is born of liking ourselves. PLAYER ONE I think it’s both. I think you can’t like yourself if you’re totally isolated, you’d go crazy. You need to share love to be able to like yourself. 60
Act Two Scene 1 Revelation (Players) Players enter to change the set, packing up the study, in the style of Kanin and Gordon (Adam’s Rib): ribald, witty gender revelatory. PLAYER TWO I asked my students to make a list of all the roles they play in life. And this one woman said, "I’m a mother, a writer, a dancer, a student, a lover, a democrat; I'm jewish. I live in a brick house; a grocery shopper, a highway driver…" And she went on and on like that. She must have listed thirty roles she played in her life. Her husband was sitting there, getting smaller and smaller. Finally, when she was done, he asked her, in a trembling, defeated voice, "Wife." She heard him but she didn't understand. She said, "What?" He said, "Aren't you my wife?" I don't mean to be cliché or anything, but you coulda heard a pin drop. Then she says, "It's not a role I play. It is who I am. It is the core, central fact of my existence, as close to who I am as who I am to myself in here," and she touches her heart. And everyone was crying. Oh yeah, everyone. PLAYER ONE PLAYER TWO 61
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compelled to be true to the Victori
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The Cast (the first workshop produc
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Act One Act Two …. Scene 1 Candle
Page 9 and 10: Scene 1 Candlelight (Auroras) Auror
Page 11 and 12: And thus beloved, she died. He made
Page 13 and 14: YOUNG AURORA All things blurred and
Page 15 and 16: Love. Love my child, love. AURORA Y
Page 17 and 18: AURORA I had relations with the uns
Page 19 and 20: Scene 2 There’s Only Now (Players
Page 21 and 22: Scene 3 Awakening (Auroras, Aunt Le
Page 23 and 24: touch let go conventions and sprang
Page 25 and 26: Scene 4 Truth and Beauty (Players)
Page 27 and 28: Scene 5 Birthday (Auroras, Romney,
Page 29 and 30: I stood there fixed. AURORA YOUNG A
Page 31 and 32: YOUNG AURORA With which conclusion
Page 33 and 34: YOUNG AURORA Whoever says to a loya
Page 35 and 36: Scene 6 Naked (Players) PLAYER TWO
Page 37 and 38: PLAYER ONE What I was saying in the
Page 39 and 40: YOUNG AURORA Or I saw fog only. The
Page 41 and 42: YOUNG AURORA Or as the fiery sap, c
Page 43 and 44: garlic. Then whatever else we eat t
Page 45 and 46: Scene 9 Fully Loaded (Players) Play
Page 47 and 48: YOUNG AURORA he drank and slept and
Page 49 and 50: She heard them yell. AURORA MARIAN
Page 51 and 52: YOUNG AURORA I think it frets the s
Page 53 and 54: Lady Waldemar is good. ROMNEY YOUNG
Page 55 and 56: YOUNG AURORA There is none good sav
Page 57 and 58: AURORA Romney stood and tried to sp
Page 59: Scene 11 Strike (Players) Players e
Page 63 and 64: Exert a double vision: YOUNG AURORA
Page 65 and 66: AURORA Keep up the fire and leave t
Page 67 and 68: LADY WALDEMAR Miss Leigh, I have a
Page 69 and 70: Scene 3 Great Power (Players) Playe
Page 71 and 72: YOUNG AURORA So I mused up and down
Page 73 and 74: YOUNG AURORA I ought to write to Ro
Page 75 and 76: MARIAN He is mine. I am as proud as
Page 77 and 78: not? He overgrows a grave with viol
Page 79 and 80: Scene 6 Dear Lady Waldemar Revisite
Page 81 and 82: AURORA We'll breathe softly and sti
Page 83 and 84: Paints futile pictures. Writes unre
Page 85 and 86: Scene 7 Labors of Love (Players) Pl
Page 87 and 88: Scene 8 New Moon (Auroras, Romney,
Page 89 and 90: LADY WALDEMAR So I read your book,
Page 91 and 92: morning in the dew that you would s
Page 93 and 94: Epilogue Good Spirits (Players) PLA
Page 95 and 96: as poems should be written rarely a
Page 97 and 98: each side of a most expressive face
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