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Getting Out

Arlene Horsclaw Carl

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Carl: What鈥檚 happenin鈥�, Mama? You havin鈥� lunch with the bugs?

Arlene: (Quietly.) F--- off.

Carl: (Threatening.) What鈥檇 you say?

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Carl: 鈥� Take him out on that boat they got goes roun鈥� the island. Take him up to the Empire State Building, let him play King Kong. (Rubs her hair, unstudied tenderness.) He be talkin鈥� about that trip his whole life.

Arlene: (Smoothing his hair.) I don鈥檛 want to go back to prison, Carl.

For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 54-57.

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