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SHE and HE are actors, co-stars, and lovers. SHE has left her family to be with HE, reigniting an affair that first ended twenty years previously. However, the initial passion has run its course and memories of why their relationship broke down in the first place are returning. In this scene, they are running a fight call before the opening night but they soon jump out of character when SHE admits that she wants to return to her family.
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START: HE Okay do you want to do the last scene first?
SHE Sure.
HE AS JOHNNY Get on the bed!
SHE AS WHORE No.
HE AS JOHNNY Get on the bed, goddamit!
[... ...]
END: SHE I was no longer real especially when I was happy. But no, all along in real time you’ve gone on being you and I’ve gone on being me and yes I really love you enough to be ghosted by you my entire life but my God I left you for a reason.
Sarah Ruhl. Stage Kiss. Theatre Communications Group, 2014 (electronic edition) p.144-151.
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