Belles Soeurs, Les by Michel Tremblay

Author:Michel Tremblay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: drama, Canada, Quebec, women
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2013-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

ACT TWO

The second act begins with PIERRETTE’s entrance. Hence the last six speeches of Act One are repeated now. The door opens suddenly and PIERRETTE GUÉRIN comes in.

PIERRETTE:

Hi, everybody!

THE OTHERS:

Pierrette!

LINDA:

Great! It’s Aunt Pierrette!

ANGÉLINE:

Omigod, Pierrette!

GERMAINE:

What are you doing here? I told you I never wanted to see you again.

PIERRETTE:

I heard that my big sister, Germaine, had won a million stamps, so I decided to come over and have a look. (She sees ANGÉLINE.) Well, I’ll be goddamned! Angéline! What are you doing here?

Everyone looks at ANGÉLINE.

ANGÉLINE:

My God! I’m caught.

GERMAINE:

What do you mean, Angéline?

GABRIELLE:

How come you’re talking to Mlle Sauvé?

ROSE:

You oughta be ashamed!

PIERRETTE:

Why? We’re real good friends, eh, Géline?

ANGÉLINE:

Oh! I think I’m going to faint! (She pretends to faint.)

RHÉAUNA:

Good heavens, Angéline!

ROSE:

She’s dead!

RHÉAUNA:

What?

GABRIELLE:

Don’t be ridiculous! Rose, you’re getting carried away again.

PIERRETTE:

She hasn’t even fainted. She’s only pretending. (PIERRETTE approaches ANGÉLINE.)

GERMAINE:

Don’t you touch her!

PIERRETTE:

Mind your own business! She’s my friend.

RHÉAUNA:

What do you mean, your friend?

GERMAINE:

Don’t try to tell us Mlle Sauvé is a friend of yours!

PIERRETTE:

Of course she is! She comes to see me at the club almost every Friday night.

ALL THE WOMEN:

What!

RHÉAUNA:

That’s impossible.

PIERRETTE:

Ask her! Hey, Géline, isn’t it true what I’m saying? Come on, stop playing dead and answer me. Angéline, we all know you’re faking! Tell them. Isn’t it true you come to the club?

ANGÉLINE:

(after a silence) Yes, it’s true.

RHÉAUNA:

Oh, Angéline! Angéline!

SOME OF THE WOMEN:

Dear God, this is dreadful!

SOME OTHER WOMEN:

Dear God, this is horrible!

LINDA, GINETTE & LISE:

Holy shit, that’s great!

The lights go out.

RHÉAUNA:

Angéline! Angéline!

Spotlight on ANGÉLINE and RHÉAUNA.

ANGÉLINE:

Rhéauna, you must understand…

RHÉAUNA:

Don’t you touch me! Get away!

THE WOMEN:

Who would have thought… such a horrible thing!

RHÉAUNA:

I’d never have thought this of you. You, in a club. And every Friday night! It’s not possible. It can’t be true.

ANGÉLINE:

I don’t do anything wrong, Rhéauna. All I have is a Coke.

THE WOMEN:

In a club! In a nightclub!

GERMAINE:

God only knows what she does there.

ROSE:

Maybe she tries to get picked up.

ANGÉLINE:

But I tell you, I don’t do anything wrong!

PIERRETTE:

It’s true. She doesn’t do anything wrong.

ROSE, GERMAINE & GABRIELLE:

Shut up, you demon. Shut up!

RHÉAUNA:

You’re no longer my friend, Angéline. I don’t know you.

ANGÉLINE:

Listen to me, Rhéauna, you must listen! I’ll explain everything and then you’ll see!

ROSE, GERMAINE & GABRIELLE:

A club! The fastest road to hell!

ALL THE WOMEN:

(except the girls) The road to hell, the road to hell! If you go there, you’ll lose your soul! Cursed drink, cursed dancing! That’s the place where our men go wrong and spend their money on women of sin!

ROSE, GERMAINE & GABRIELLE:

Women of sin like you, Pierrette!

ALL THE WOMEN:

(except the girls) Shame on you, Angéline Sauvé, to spend your time in this sinful way!

RHÉAUNA:

But, Angéline, a club! It’s worse than hell!

PIERRETTE:

(laughing heartily) If hell’s anything like the club I work in, I wouldn’t mind eternity there!

ROSE, GERMAINE & GABRIELLE:

Shut up, Pierrette. The devil has your tongue!

LINDA, GINETTE & LISE:

The devil? Come on! Get with the times! The clubs are not the end of the world! They’re no worse than any place else. They’re fun! They’re lots of fun. The clubs are lots of fun.

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