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Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet

Tarell Alvin McCraney

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Late Teen
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 10
Time & Place
Late August, San Pere, Louisiana
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Start: Trust. I know. Ain’t no answers out here. Not to

Me particular.

Just sky and dust but ain’t we all?

Don’t you wish it was?

Don’t you wish the days, all damn day, running into

Everything that scares the...Outta you would just wash

Out into the waters, drain away.

[.. ... ..]

End: Never heard

A black boy say that I bet. Not out loud.

Wish them waters would

Rise up like that water and take it all, me too, out and away.

You

Wish that sometimes? I do. I do.

McCraney, Tarell Alvin, Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, Theatre Communications Group, 2010, pp. 298-300.

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