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

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MAGISTRATE: I sentence you to thirty days in prison.

RITA: (angry, defiant) Sure, sure . . . anything else you know?

MAGISTRATE: I sentence you to thirty days in prison, with a recommendation you be examined medically and given all necessary treatment at the prison clinic. There is nothing . . . there is nothing I can do now.

[ … … …]

RITA: You don’t know nothin’!

MAGISTRATE: I know . . . I know . . . It’s a struggle just to stay alive. I know . . . I know . . . I understand. That struggle is mine, as well as yours Rita Joe! The jungle of the executive has as many savage teeth ready to go for the throat as the rundown hotel on the waterfront . . . Your days and hours are numbered, Rita Joe . . . I worry for the child I once saw . . . I have already forgotten the woman!

Ryga, George, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Talonbooks, 1967, pp 123-125.

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Per the publisher, Talonbooks, the rights to produce The Ecstasy of Rita Joe in whole or in part, in any medium by any group, amateur or professional, are retained by the author's estate.

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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