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**Start:** He ain’t nobody really, bu...

Mayme

Intimate Apparel

Lynn Nottage

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene Four,
Time & Place
Mayme’s room, a brothel, Lower Manhattan, 1905,
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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He ain’t nobody really, but he real sweet. Like a schoolboy, almost. We call him Songbird, ‘cause he sing to speak. He come in like all them others. Hands crude and calloused, a week’s wage in his pockets. But when we done I didn’t want him to leave and I asked him to have a drink. Fool drunk up all my liquor, but it ain’t bother me. [...]

End:

Comes three times a week on schedule like the iceman. He was here last night until midnight, but he don’t ever stay later. He just leaves his scent, which lingers until two a.m. or three, and I lie awake until it disappears.

Nottage, Lynn. Intimate Apparel. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, 2005. p. 47.

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