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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
A dry goods store in a small southern town, America, 1950s
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 2

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START: LADY: Ge’ me the drug store, will you? I know the drug store’s closed, this is Mrs Torrance, my store’s closed, too, but I got a sick man here, just back from the hospital, yeah, yeah, an emergency, well, wake up Mr. Dubinsky, keep ringing till he answers, it’s an emergency! (Pause, she whispers under her breath) I wish I was dead, dead, dead…
VAL: (Quietly) No, you don’t, ma’am.
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END: VAL: And I’m going to be steady and honest and hard-working to please you and by the way, I can solve your sleeping problems.
LADY: How?
VAL: A lady osteopath taught me how to make little adjustments in the neck bone and spine: It will give you a sound natural sleep. Good night! Tennessee Williams. Orpheus Descending. Dramatists Play Service, 1989. Pp. 22-30

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