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Olive has set up a double date for her and her roommate Florence with two Spanish brothers who live in the same apartment building. Florence is newly separated from her husband and had real doubts about going through with the date. However, she allowed Olive to convince her it would be a good idea. A natural obsessively compulsive housewife, she is therefore very annoyed when Olive comes home later than she said she would. Florence is worried the dinner will be ruined but Olive doesn’t
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Start: Olive: (Aloud, to the kitchen) Oh, God, it’s gorgeous...It looks like a Noel Coward play
(She kicks off her shoes, then takes off her jacket and throws it on a chair, but it misses and hits the floor. She starts to take off her skirt. She has already put her briefcase on the dining room table.)
I feel alive again...I feel glamorous…
[... ... ...]
End: Florence: Why don’t we send out to Arthur Treacher’s for some fish sticks?
Olive: Are you through?
Florence: I am through.
Simon, Neil. The Collected Plays of Neil Simon: Volume 3. Random House Inc., 1991. Pp. 438-442.
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