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Tony Kushner
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Tony Kushner
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ACT TWO
SCENE 1
The hotel room. Itâs dark.
Milton is sprawled asleep atop his covers, fully dressed, the phone next to him.
A figure in a green burqa enters. She switches on the lights.
A muezzinâs call for evening prayers, amplified through a loudspeaker, comes through from outside.
She goes to Milton, looks down at him. She sniffs.
She sees the empty bottle, picks it up, brings it close to her face-grille, reads the label, upends it: empty.
PRISCILLA
Where did you get this?
(Milton sits bolt upright, looks at the figure in the burqa and SCREAMS, leaps out of bed.)
MILTON
Get out! Get out! Wrong room! Wrong room! Please, please leave me alone!
(As he is screaming the figure is saying, âDad, Dad!â as she removes her burqa. Itâs Priscilla, wearing the headphones, discman strapped around her waist.)
dp n="85" folio="62" ?MILTON
You half startled me to . . . Skulking about like a panto ghost. Are you insane?
PRISCILLA
Oh, watch that. Donât want to get into all that.
MILTON
Yes, well, insane, I might be speaking hyperbolically, loosely, not precisely with regard to your particular . . . particulars, but I have been alone, here, worrying. For hours. Youâre the one ought to be watching herself, should you feel yourself slipping. Itâs not a bit like home.
PRISCILLA
Yes, I know, unlike you I have actually bothered to go out and have a look at it.
MILTON
No clean hospitals here. Mentally ill women get Toyota-trucked to the old soccer stadium, I shouldnât wonder, and (Makes a throat-slitting gesture) . . . pffffffffffffft.
PRISCILLA
Enjoying yourself? Fantastic, two years have passed and youâve never mentioned it and you decide that now? Here?
Finally, youâ
Youâre drunk.
MILTON
And you have a past record of mental affliction.
PRISCILLA
I attempted suicide.
MILTON
Which I believe is accounted a sign ofâ
dp n="86" folio="63" ?PRISCILLA
Lots of people attemptâ
MILTON
Lots of people are crazy, Priscilla, that provesâ
PRISCILLA
I donât have to prove anything, Milton.
(Studying Milton for a moment, then:)
Youâre attacking me because youâre horrified to think she might still be alive.
MILTON
She isnât.
PRISCILLA
Whereâs her body then? Her corpse? Why donât we have it?
(Beat)
I wasnât crazy, Iâm not crazy. I was upset.
MILTON
Upset?! Upset causes people to overeat! Or to paint their hair and shove pins through their nipples! Upset people donât destroy themselves.
PRISCILLA
I was eighteen, I was stupid, so I, so I swallowed pills andâ
MILTON
Many, many pills.
PRISCILLA
Yes, many many many pills. Andâ
Oh what a pity. And I was having such a lovely day.
MILTON
Upset! Stupid, yes, absolutely, I grant you stupid.
dp n="87" folio="64" ?(Little pause.)
PRISCILLA
I needed time to, a place with close solid walls and an utter absence of the two of you. And you certainly stayed away. The electroshock was just dramatic effect, I agreed to it to punish you two.
MILTON
It was effective.
PRISCILLA
Was it? I was in there for months. You never visited once. The nurses remarked.
MILTON
Left hospital two years ago and has steadfastly refused to move out, yet in this ghastly place you stay out all day.
PRISCILLA
Not that you care but the hospital wasnât so very clean. Nicer of course than the places I saw today but then even the National Health looks good compared toâ
MILTON
None of us ever recovered.
She went to see you in hospital that night and she never returned. Not really. I mean she returned, home, but . . . What should I have said. What was there to say?
(They look at each other. Priscilla shrugs. Little pause.)
PRISCILLA
I saw horrible things today. A hospital whereâ
MILTON
Please donât.
dp n="88" folio="65" ?PRISCILLA
Horrible. But it was me there, seeing it, me. I thought, what kind of person watches herself seeing such things? Conceited, yeah? But I watched. I di...