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- Male: 1
Context
Tieng-Bin is home for the first night in three years. He wants to spend the evening with Eling, his Third (and favorite) Wife. He wants to explore and learn about the modern world, and Eling (displayed through her Western lingerie) does as well. The couple openly declare their love for each other, although Eling is worried about jealousy from the other wives and how they will treat her.
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Start:
ELING: You shouldn’t have praised me so much in front of the other wives. Second Wife will be fuming for weeks.
TIENG-BIN: But--just looking at you across the dinner table …
ELING: Are you going to make me blush again?
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End:
ELING: Then can I tell you my secret? (Pause.) I like it. That you come to me -- that you look at me different from the other wives … I like it.
TIENG-BIN: Then look back at me. Don’t avert your gaze, but look me straight in the eye. Watch me, watching you.
David Henry Hwang, Golden Child, Dramatists Play Service, 1999, pp.20-22.
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