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for
Reading University
Library
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Samuel Beckett
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89 ← 1. To " words were coming
84 ← 2. Thence " something she had to tell
50 ← 3. Thence "
end
[beg Sb?]
[onlooker?]
[0001] Stage in darkness but for
MOUTH, upstage audience right, about 8' above stage
level, faintly light from close up and below, rest
of face in shadow. Invisible microphone.
[0002] AUDITOR, downstage audience left, tall standing figure, sex undeterminable, enveloped from head to foot in loose black djellaba, with hood, fully faintly lit, standing on invisible podium about 4' high, shown by attitude alone to be facing diagonally acfross stage intent on MOUTH, dead still throughout but for four brief movements where indicated. See Note 1.
[0003] As house lights down MOUTH's voice unintelligible behind curtain. House lights out. Voice continues unintelligible behind curtain, 10 seconds. With rise of curtain ad-libbing from text as required leading when curtain fully up and attention sufficient into
MOUTH |
[0004] .. |


[0008] kneeling..but the brain - ..what? |


[0015] light..reflex they call it..no feeling of any kind..but the lids..even best of times..who feels them?..opening..shutting..all that moisture..[0016]but the brain still..still sufficiently..oh very much so!..at this stage..in control..under control..to question even this..for on that April morning..so it reasoned..that April morning..she fixing with her eye..a distant bell..as she hastened towards it..[0016]fixing it with her eye..lest it elude her..had not all gone out..all that light..of itself. |


[0023] thoughts..make something of them..all - ..wha |


[0029] little thing..before its time..godforsaken hole.. |
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