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Isolde

Isolde Isolde Richard Maxwell CHARACTERS Isolde, an actress MassIMo, an architect PatrIck, a contractor Uncle Jerry, a friend of the contractor SCENE 1: THE ACTRESS AND THE CONTRACTOR RUN LINES. (Isolde enters with a prompting book, hands it to PatrIck, who sits down.) Isolde: “We know the story. I was to come by boat and save him. But aboard that boat we know there was a saboteur. That bitch. She was my undoing. She put up the black flag. And when I saw—” . . . Line? PatrIck: “And when I saw my true loves mortal wound . . .” Isolde: “. . . my true loves mortal wound? . . .” What’s next? PatrIck: “. . . my effort was redoubled in the face of such unusual treachery.” Isolde: . . . “my effort was . . .” PatrIck: (coaxing) Isolde: Go to the next. PatrIck: Um. “Yes, apparently that testament was drafted years ago.” Isolde: “Yes, apparently that testament was drafted years ago.” PatrIck: Good. Let’s just try that much again. Isolde: Alright . . . (She smoothes the fabric on her lap and sits up in her chair.) I knew these lines yesterday. Okay . . http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2014 Richard Maxwell
Subject
Play
ISSN
1520-281X
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1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/PAJJ_a_00303
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Isolde Richard Maxwell CHARACTERS Isolde, an actress MassIMo, an architect PatrIck, a contractor Uncle Jerry, a friend of the contractor SCENE 1: THE ACTRESS AND THE CONTRACTOR RUN LINES. (Isolde enters with a prompting book, hands it to PatrIck, who sits down.) Isolde: “We know the story. I was to come by boat and save him. But aboard that boat we know there was a saboteur. That bitch. She was my undoing. She put up the black flag. And when I saw—” . . . Line? PatrIck: “And when I saw my true loves mortal wound . . .” Isolde: “. . . my true loves mortal wound? . . .” What’s next? PatrIck: “. . . my effort was redoubled in the face of such unusual treachery.” Isolde: . . . “my effort was . . .” PatrIck: (coaxing) Isolde: Go to the next. PatrIck: Um. “Yes, apparently that testament was drafted years ago.” Isolde: “Yes, apparently that testament was drafted years ago.” PatrIck: Good. Let’s just try that much again. Isolde: Alright . . . (She smoothes the fabric on her lap and sits up in her chair.) I knew these lines yesterday. Okay . .

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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press

Published: Jan 1, 2016

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