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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 3
  • Male: 0
Style
Dramatic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Zatembe (a fictional African nation)
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Three

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START: CHARLIE: “And it shall follow as the night the day--” Say, Dr Gotterling, you know this is the only place I’ve even been where the night really does follow the day. Whatever happened to your twilights here?
MARTA: (tongue in cheek) Well, Mr. Morris, I shall tell you. Since they serve no useful purpose at the Mission--we have eliminated them entirely!
[...]
END: MADAME: Torvald has been trampling around these villages for forty years, my dear. When he has done whatever he has to do, he will come home.
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A jeep slams to a stop offstage, followed by the rushed steps of men.
)
CHARLIE: Now what--?
MADAME (cooly, dryly) It is the sound of the nerve ends of frightened men, Mr Morris.

Lorraine Hansberry. Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. 1972.

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