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Real estate agent Clair has been trying to close the deal on selling the house to James, who promised to pay cash. However, he keeps inventing reasons to return to the house with Clair. She is uncomfortable with all of his attention, and tries to get him to leave. Unexpectedly, the family’s Italian nanny Anna is still at home--with her Italian boyfriend Vittorio. The encounter heightens tensions and emphasizes the secretive world in which everyone lives. Anna speaks with an Italian accent, and
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Clair: Look, I don’t play cards.
James: You don’t play cards? Is this a matter of principle with you?
Clair: (laughs) No ….
[... … …]
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Anna: Thank you.
Vittorio and Anna go.
James: Do you know what I’d very much like to do now, Clair. I’d like to go out into the garden.
Martin Crimp, Dealing With Clair. In Martin Crimp: Plays 1. Faber & Faber, 2000, pp. 70-74.
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