Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess by Linda Griffiths

Author:Linda Griffiths [Griffiths, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wallis Sampson, Pierre Trudeau, Margaret Trudeau, Linda Griffiths, award winner, England, royalist, disco election, drama, power, politics, Canada
ISBN: 9781770911802
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Published: 2013-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

Scene Nine

HENRY'S LAST HURRAH

HENRY’s first lines are intercut with a sad sixties rock ballad, which fades away as he speaks.

HENRY

I saw Margaret at McDonald’s the other day. I was having an Egg McMuffin and a Coke. She was sitting there right as close as you are to me. She didn’t recognize me, though, no reason really. She had the kids with her. They’re getting so big you’d never recognize them. He came in. He picked up two of the kids, she had the little one; they had an order to go. Then they all went off in the same car. And I thought, here I am trying to conclude my assignment and maybe I never will. Maybe I’m doomed to tell this story over and over again. Was Maggie stupid, nuts? Or just what we needed? Was he the definition of arrogance, did he save the country, did he damn it? I’ve lost my objectivity, I’ve completely lost the ability to analyze these people… because I’m so hungry for… something. So seared by something. It’s like having been involved in one of those incredible thunderstorms, you know the kind, with the flashes and the crashes and the colours. And you stand there, just a little bit in awe of all that shit on the line up there. And you don’t call it good and you don’t call it bad, you’re thinking of something else. Then after it reaches one of those heights, it starts to die away. You see a little bit of lightning in the distance, and maybe a crash of thunder, maybe a little flash of… something over there… maybe a bit of… that’s me. I’m the guy that can’t stop watching. But there’s a funny thing about those thunderstorms, you can never quite tell when they’re over.

The end.

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