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The Queen (a black actress in a white mask) and Felicity (a black actress) are stood face to face in a heated debate. They represent white and black with each extolling their own virtues. The Queen represents a caricature of historical imperial cruelty, while Felicity lays out the power and beauty of a black world. Despite their heated words, the two women walk almost amicably as they speak. However, their emotions and self-belief in their own world overspill and belie their relaxed physicality.
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START: THE QUEEN (to Felicity): Begin.
FELICITY: You begin!
THE QUEEN (very courteously, as one behaves with humble folk): I assure you, I can wait . . .
FELICITY: Admit you don't know how to begin.
THE QUEEN: I can wait. I have eternity with me.
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END: FELICITY (ironically): You fool, just imagine how Hat you'd be without that shade to set you off in high relief.
THE QUEEN: But . . .
FELICITY (same tone): For this evening, until the end of the drama, let us therefore remain alive.
THE QUEEN (turning to the Court): Good God, good God, what's one to say to her . .
Jean Genet, The Blacks: A Clown Show, trans. Bernard Frechtman. Grove Press (electronic version), 1966, pp.83-5.
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