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Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 2
  • Male: 0
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, 1970s
Act/Scene
Act One

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Start:

Arlene: I didn’t know if you’d come.

Mother Ain’t I always?

Arlene: How are you? (Moves as if to hug her. Mother stands still, Arlene back off.)

[... … …]

End:

Arlene: How do you know that? (Furious.)

Mother: Now don’t you go gettin’ het up. I’m tellin’ you …

Arlene: But …

Mother: Kids need rules to go by ad he’ll get ‘em over there.

For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 18-21.

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