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START: GARY: Boy!
Aint resting time yet.
DUSTIN: Oh,
I was just tired so I sat down for a second.
I’ll get back to it lickety-split.
GARY: Lickety-split was before, boy.
Getcha ass up now, I said!
[... …]
END: GARY: I can’t read so I can’t look it up in a book
but what I seem to be understanding is that INDENTURED
SERVANT IS DEFINED AS AN INEFFECTUAL,
UNINTELLIGIBLE WHITE!
DOES THAT SOUND BOUT RIGHT BOOT DUSTIN?
YOU COM / PREHEND—
(“Multi-Love” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra begins to play, stopping Gary mid-speech. Gary looks up, angry and annoyed, before scoffing. Suddenly, with a scream, Dustin is up and tackling Gary [ideally when the percussion hits].
Jeremy O. Harris. Slave Play, Theatre Communications Group (electronic edition), 2019. Pp. 53-59.
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