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Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)
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  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Vancouver, Canada, 1960s
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 1

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JAIMIE: Come on, Rita Joe . . . you’re slow.

RITA: (happy in her memories, not wishing to forget too soon, hesitates) How much rent . . . for a place where you can keep babies?

JAIMIE: I don’t know . . . maybe eighty dollars a month.

RITA: That’s a lot of money.

[... … …] Again, they laugh in merriment at the idea of such a demonstration with the knife. JAIMIE continues with his story, gesturing with his hands.

JAIMIE: Chop . . . chop . . . chop . . . A potful of shoes in no time! What’s a guy gonna do with a potful of shoes? Cook them? (They continue laughing and lie together again. Then JAIMIE sobers. He rises from the bed and walks around it. Offers his hand to RITA JOE, who also rises.)

JAIMIE: (Drily) Come on. This is a lousy room!

Ryga, George, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Talonbooks, 1967, pp 99-104.

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Interested persons are requested to apply to
George Ryga & Associates Inc. 65 Aspen Place
Half Moon Bay
Alberta, Canada T4S 1S1
www.georgeryga.com

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