Stage in darkness but for M O U TH, upstage audience righ t, about
8 feet above stage level, faintly lit from close-up and below, rest
of face in shadow. Invisible microphone.
A U D ITO R, downstage audience left, tall standing figure, sex undeterminable,
enveloped from head to foo t in lo ose black
djellaba, with hood, fully faintly lit, standing on invisible
podium about 4 feet high shown by attitude alo ne to be facing
diagonally a cross stage in tent on M O UTH, dead still throughout
but for fo ur brief movements where indicated. See Note.
As house lights down M O UT H s voice unintelligible behind curtain.
Ho use lights out. Vo ice con tinues unintelligible behind
curtain, 1 0 seco nds: With rise of curtain ad-libb ing from text as
req uired leading when curtain fully up and attentio n sufficient
into:
M O U TH : • • • • out . . . into this world . . . this world . . . tiny little
thing . . . before its time . . . in a god for- . . . what? . . girl? . .
yes . . . tiny little girl . . . into this . . . out into this . . .
before her time . . . godforsaken hole called . . . called . . .
no matter . . . parents unknown . . . unheard of . . . he
having vanished . . . thin air . . . no sooner buttoned up his
breeches . . . she similarly . . . eight months later . . . almost
to the tick . . . so no love . . . spared that . . . no love such as
normally vented on the . . . speechless infant . . . in the
home . . . no . . . nor indeed for that matter any of any kind
. . . no love of any kind . . . at any subsequent stage . . . so
typical affair . . . nothing of any note till coming up to
sixty when- . . . what? . . seventy ? . . good God ! . . coming
up to seventy . . . wandering in a field . . . looking aimlessly
for cowslips . . . to make a ball . . . a few steps then stop . . .
stare into space . . . then on . . . a few more . . . stop and
stare again . . . so on . . . drifting around . . . when suddenly
. . . gradually . . . all went out . . . all that early April morn-
ing light . . . and she found herself i n the- . . . what ? . .
who ? . . no ! . . she ! . . [Pause and movement 1. ] . . . found
herself in the dark . . . and if not exactly . . . insentient . . .
insentient . . . for she could still hear the buzzing . . . socalled
. . . in the ears . . . and a ray of light came and went . . .
came and went . . . such as the moon might cast . . . drifting
. . . in and out of cloud . . . but so dulled . . . feeling . . .
feeling so dulled . . . she did not know . . . what position she
was in . . . imagine! . . what position she was in ! . . whether
standing . . . or sitting . . . but the brain- . . . what ? . .
kneeling? . . yes . . . whether standing . . . or sitting . . . or
kneeling . . . but the brain- . . . what ? . . lying? . . yes . . .
whether standing . . . or sitting . . . or kneeling . . . or lying . . .
but the brain still . . . still . . . in a way . . . for her first
thought was . . . oh long after . . . sudden flash . . . brought
up as she had b een to believe . . . with the other waifs . . . in
a merciful . . . [Brief laugh. ] . . . God . . . [Good laugh. 1 . . .
first thought was . . . oh long after . . . sudden flash . . . she
was being punished . . . for her sins . . . a number of which
then . . . further proof if proof were needed . . . flashed
through her mind . . . one after another . . . then dismissed
as foolish . . . oh long after . . . this thought dismissed . . . as
she suddenly realized . . . gradually realized . . . she was not
suffering . . . imagine ! . . not suffering! . . indeed could not
remember . . . off-hand . . . when she had suffered less . . .
unless of course she was . . . mean t to be suffering . . .
ha ! . . tho ught to be suffering . . . just as the odd time . . . in
her life . . . when clearly intended to be having pleasure . . .
she was in fact . . . having none . . . not the slightest . . . in
which case of course . . . that notion of punishment . . . for
some sin or other . . . or for the lot . . . or no particular
reason . . . for its own sake . . . thing she understood perfectly
. . . that notion of punishment . . . which had first
occurred to her . . . brought up as she had been to believe . . .
with the other waifs . . . irt a merciful . . . [Brief laugh. ] . . .
God . . . [Good laugh. ] . . . first occurred to her . . . then
dismissed . . . as foolish . . . was perhaps not so foolish . . .
after all . . . so on . . . all that . . . vain reasonings . . . till
another thought . . . oh long after . . . sudden flash . . . very ... ... ...
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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