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Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)
Characters
Lula Clay
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
The carriage of a subway train, New York City, 1960s
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 1

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START: Lula: Hello.
Clay: Uh, hi鈥檙e you?
Lula: I鈥檓 going to sit down...O.K.?
Clay: Sure.

[... ...]

END: Lula: And we鈥檒l pretend that people cannot see you. That is, the citizens. And that you are free of your own history. And I am free of my history. We鈥檒l pretend that we are both anonymous beauties smashing along through the city鈥檚 entrails. [She yells as loud as she can] GROOVE!

Amiri Baraka, 鈥淒utchman鈥�, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. E, 6th edition, W.W. Norton & Co., 2003, pp. 2312-3.

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