Its late at night, the lights on the streets grow dimmer and the sounds of the blue piano fade in and out as blanch climbs down the stairs to the three men , Stanley, Steve and Mitch all taking shots at the bar and laughing with animal like movements .
Blanche : Stanley! oh Stanley there you are, Stella wants you out on the front porch to talk, she says something about you needed to talk more about the baby.
Stanley moves about slowly, ruffling his hair with frustration and sweat from the intensely lighted room, packed with newcomers and travelers on a Friday night, Xavier night .
Mitch: your wife there, i heard her sisters come to stay with y'all , a mighty fine woman she is, just talking with her last night, says she's a teacher too; i might just want to get to know her some more eh!
Stanley: now ,you lay of her, she's bad news , seems like a fine woman to you Mitch but i tell ya she aint got nothin less then a pack of lies to keep, she's a right seductress. and i bet she's got you all in her lunacy ,i'm tellin you, she's baaad news.
Mitch: why, this is quiet sudden, never really taken her for the....no no no no, i just wont believe it, she's such a nice women, well together and all, and i know that she aint what y'all makin her out to be , Stanley . go on home to your wife , you aint got no business tellin me what Blanche is.
Steve :come on up Stanley you know Blanche well enough to be callin her stuff like that?, go on home to your wife.
The blues music from Xavier slows into a final chorus and Stanley looks around at the two men as if they were blinded he grunts and curses under his breathe ,sweat pounds his face and he gets up grabbing the edge of a table so he doesn't loose grip.
Stella: Stanley! Stanley! come on down why don't you, its getting cold out here; stupid men !
out at the corner, Blanche stands in toilet ,staring at the mirror,
Blanche: age really does catch up with my pretty little mind ,if i must be crazy, ahhh, time to bathe ,oh lovely bath to cleanse me of this men filled day...haha
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12 years ago
www very lively and exciting to read, I think you have made a fantastic effort to engage with the accent and dialect of New Orleans. You make sound and reasonable references to the text.
ReplyDeleteebi I wondered if this dialogue would be suitable at the point in the play when it is meant to be set - in other words, at the very beginning of the poker game evening. With that in mind Mitch doesn't really know Blanche at that point.
Therefore, in future, look carefully at the brief - what is asked for and try to write with this in mind.