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Roots
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 2
  • Male: 0
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Norfolk, England, 1950s
Act/Scene
Act Two

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START: Mrs Bryant You hear about Jimmy Skelton? They say he鈥檝e bin arrested for accosting some man in the village.

Beatie Jimmy Skelton what own the pub?

Mrs Bryant That鈥檚 him. I know all about Jimmy Skelton though. He were a young boy when I were a young girl.
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END: Beatie See the way the other tune comes in? Hear it? Two simple tunes, one after the other.

Mrs Bryant I aren鈥檛 saying it鈥檚 all squit.

Beatie And now listen, listen, it goes together, the two tunes together, they knit, they鈥檙e perfect. Don鈥檛 it make you want to dance?

Arnold Wesker. Roots. Act Two.

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