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Getting Out

Arlene Horsclaw Carl

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Carl: What’s happenin’, Mama? You havin’ lunch with the bugs?

Arlene: (Quietly.) F--- off.

Carl: (Threatening.) What’d you say?

[... … ... ]

End:

Carl: … Take him out on that boat they got goes roun’ the island. Take him up to the Empire State Building, let him play King Kong. (Rubs her hair, unstudied tenderness.) He be talkin’ about that trip his whole life.

Arlene: (Smoothing his hair.) I don’t want to go back to prison, Carl.

For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 54-57.

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