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Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
A Gothic Mansion in New Orleans, 1936
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Scene 1

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START: DOCTOR: Mrs Venable? Did your son have a – well – what kind of a personal, well, private life did –
MRS VENABLE: That’s a question I wanted you to ask me.
DOCTOR: Why?
MRS VENABLE: I haven’t heard the girl’s story except indirectly in a watered-down version, being too ill to go to hear it directly, but I’ve gathered enough to know that it’s a hideous attack on my son’s moral character which, being dead, he can’t defend himself from.
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END: MRS VENABLE [laughs, throwing her head back]: Name it that – I don’t care – There’s just two things to remember. She’s a destroyer. My son was a creator! – Now if my honesty’s shocked you – pick up your little black bag without the subsidy in it, and run away from this garden! – Nobody’s heard our conversation but you and I, Doctor Sugar …

Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. pp.21-26.

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