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Sarah and Helen are friends from school. Sarah invites Helen over to her house after school because she knows her parents won’t be home. When they arrive, Sarah raids her parent’s liquor closet and makes them drinks with gin, vodka, and Fresca, while Helen admires Sarah’s dining room. Helen is jealous that Sarah’s family eats in the dining room together, but Sarah is jealous that Helen gets to eat in the kitchen with her family, They discuss their family lives while they wait for two boys,
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Start: Girl’s voice: Mom? MOM? Anybody home? (Silence; then more softly.) See? I told you. She isn’t here. (Sarah appears in the doorway, with Helen behind her.)
Helen: Where is she?
Sarah: She works. At a boutique. Four days a week. And my father’s away on business. In Atlanta. Or Denver or somewhere. Anyway. Come on, I’ll show you where they keep the liquor.
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End: Helen: I mean, wouldn’t it be cool, sitting around this shiny table with Eddie and Duane, drinking gin and Fresca and vodka?
Sarah: (Coming out from the kitchen.) No way. Absolutely no way. In here? I’d get all up tight in here. (She heads for the hall.) Now come on. Let’s call them. (Helen starts after her.) Having boys in the dining room? Jesus, Helen. You really are a wimp sometimes.
Gurney, A.R., The Dining Room, Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1982, pp. 46-48.
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