Act 1 Scene 3 Flashcards
Roy: “My Dorabella wouldn’t do such a thing-“
“Where’s the coffee?”
Roy: “Props! There. We’re drinking coffee then.”
“But there’s none in there.”
Lewis: “We might pretend for a moment.”
“I can live with illusion as long as I know it’s illusion, but this coffee is not real, is it?”
Lewis: “No, they’re pretending.”
“The audience thinks it’s real coffee?”
Lewis: “If the acting is good enough, yes.”
“An illusion of reality. A real illusion, in other words?”
Roy: “Ruth?”
“Yes?”
Roy: “Shut up. The theatre is no place for metaphysics.”
“It’s about coffee-“
Lewis: “Ruth! We might move on. Until we get real coffee we’ll pretend.”
“All right.”
Lewis: “We’ll do scene two. It’s a garden by the seashore.”
Cherry whines
Lewis: “You’re in a garden by the seashore.”
“An illusion again. Patently, we are in a theatre.”
Lewis: “An illusion, yes. And you’re both gazing at miniatures of your lovers.”
“Miniature what?”
Lewis: “Paintings. Tiny ones.”
“Not real ones?”
Lewis: “We’ll get the real ones later.”
“Another illusion”
sit down
“Do you want me to give an illusionary performance too?
Roy: “Someone strangle her.”
Lewis: “What do you mean?”
“We’re in an illusion of a garden, carrying an illusion of tiny paintings, so should I sit here and pretend I am acting?”
Lewis: “Ruth, just pretend.”
“You’re doing a fine job of messing with my head.”
Julie: “Ruth, it’ll be fine. Let’s act out the words. All right?”
Julie: “Tell me sister, if one could ever find, a sweeter mouth or a more noble face.”
“Look, see what fire-
Now, am I pretending to be looking at the miniature of my lover here?”
