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It is 1999, several years after Priscilla’s mother may or may not have been murdered in Kabul and Mahala came back to London in her place. In Kabul, Mahala was a bitter librarian, going mad with the restrictions imposed on women by the Taliban. However, her motives and reasons for leaving the country are complex and unclear. Was she abandoned by her husband or did she manipulate the men around her to enable her flight out of the country. Now in England, she is living with Milton, Priscilla’s
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START: MAHALA Hello.
PRISCILLA I let myself in. I still have a key.
MAHALA It has been a long while. My English has meantime improved.
PRISCILLA Are you sleeping with him now?
MAHALA Your manner meantime has not improved. It has been difficult for me. But it is lovely here.
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END: MAHALA Your mother is a strange lady; to neglect a garden. A garden shows us what may await us in Paradise.
PRISCILLA She read instead.
MAHALA I have examined her library. Such strange books. I spend many hours. The rains are so abundant. In the garden outside, I have planted all my dead.
(As the lights fade, in the garden outside, a nightingale.)
Tony Kushner, Homebody/Kabul. Theatre Communications Group, 2004 (electronic edition). p.185-190.
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