Название: The Book of Grace
Автор: Suzan-Lori Parks
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: История
isbn: 9781559366465
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Buddy
Grace
Setting
A house in a small town near the Border.
From the Author’s Elements of Style
I’m continuing the use of my slightly unconventional theatrical elements. Here’s a road map.
Take a little time, a pause, a breather; make a transition.
An elongated and heightened (Rest). Denoted by repetition of figures’ names with no dialogue. Has sort of an architectural look:
Buddy
Vet
Buddy
Vet
This is a place where the figures experience their pure true simple state. While no action or stage business is necessary, directors should fill this moment as they best see fit.
Vet, standing outside near the Border Fence, wearing his uniform and, with his binoculars, scanning the horizon.
Grace, in her kitchen, wearing her waitress uniform, and holding her red-marbled composition book, her Book of Grace.
Buddy, outside, in a no-man’s land, wearing t-shirt and jeans with a keychain on his belt. He’s got his footlocker and a full-to-bursting plastic shopping bag.
Vet
Buddy
Grace
(Rest)
Grace
There’s a lot of good in the world
Vet
It’s all about Us and Them
Buddy
I can’t forgive what he’s done. What he’s done to me. No way
Grace
You just gotta look for it. The good. You just gotta look
Vet
That’s why Borders are good. They keep us contained
Buddy
I can’t forget it, but I could forgive it. Forgiving it will depend on him
Grace
Sure there’s bad. But there’s good too. Like
Vet
Borders keep Us on our side and Them on theirs. And that’s a good
Buddy
Forgiving it will depend on him not forgetting it. Funny how that works, huh?
Grace
Like that baby hippo and that old turtle. They’re friends. That’s good
Vet
And that’s a good thing. Borders
Buddy
I can’t forget it
Grace
Like the man who saved the lady when she fell into the river. He risked his own life to do it. That’s good
Vet
Borders and Fences, they say it all without saying a word: that is yours and this is mine
Buddy
I can’t forget it
Grace
Why did he save her from drowning? Cause something in him was leaning toward the good
Buddy
I can’t forget it. Ok?
Vet
I see an Illegal trying to get in here and I say, “Stop in the name of the U.S. Border Patrol.” That’s my job
Buddy
He’s my “father.” I use that term loosely. Let me be specific: he is my very own motherfucker
Grace
There’s so much evidence of good. So I write it down in my book.
Buddy
I’m Buddy, Pop. Here I am. This is how I turned out
Vet
I have contained myself. I’ve changed. I’m on the good foot now
Buddy
Unspeakable. The things he did to me
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