

for Reading
University
Library
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Samuel Beckett
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[0001] Stage dark but for
MOUTH, upstage audience right, 8' above stage level, faintly lit from close up and below, rest of face in shadow. Invisible microphone.
[0002] AUDITOR, downstage audience left, tall standing figure enveloped from head to foot in loose black djellaba, fully faintly lit, standing on invisible podium 4' high, shown by attitude alone to be facing diagonally across stage intent on MOUTH, dead still throughout but for single brief 4 slight movements wghere indicated. See note below.
[0003] As house lights down MOUTH's voice unintelligible behind curtain. House lights out. Voice continues unintelligible behind curtain, 10 seconds. As curatin curtain rises ad-libbing as required leading when curtain fully up, & silence [⁁]attention sufficient into
MOUTH |
[0004] ...birth...into this world...this world...tiny little thing...before its time...in a godfor - ...wha |


[0011] meant to be |


[0019] she survived...and now this stream...not catching the half of it...what with the buzzing...her own thoughts...not the quarter...no idea...what she was saying...imagine!...no idea what she was saying!...[0020]till she began trying to...persuade herself...it was not hers at all...not her voice at all...and would no |


[0028] |


[0035] the end...then back...God is love...back in the field...face in the grass...April morning. |
[0036] Curtain fully down. House dark. Voice continues behind curtain, unintelligible, ten seconds, ceases as house lights up.
[0037]
Note Movement
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