Mister Paradise by Tennessee Williams

Author:Tennessee Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New
ISBN: 9780141975092
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

MAN: —Children … This pink bedroom. Incurable disease. Worse than drink or drugs it has broken my will and made me a lump of flesh …An obscene lump of flesh!

[He covers his head.]

WOMAN: The scene is repeated. I might have known it would be. Again you become just—flesh as the result of a woman! Eight years ago it was her. Now I am the one that has murdered your beautiful spirit. The world is a circle and everything comes back to where it started. Yes, indeed. You came with your dissatisfactions to my front door.

MAN: Pink—pink—pink …

WOMAN: Oh, you’ve forgotten the state you were in at that time!

MAN: Everything—pink—pink—pink….

WOMAN: So morbid you were, so neurotic—

MAN: The walls, the ceiling, the carpet—

WOMAN: You talked about suicide even!

MAN: Are pink—pink—pink.

WOMAN: Oh, how you suffered at home with that self-centered woman your—

MAN: Pink!

WOMAN: Wife!

MAN: Everything pink—the bed—the pillows—

WOMAN: My life then? Was complete! Headed I was? To success? Straight! Young.

MAN: Curtains pink! Lamp-shade pink!

WOMAN: Beginning to get featured parts at the Municipal Opera! Sat at home did I? Oh, no! I had no attention? Likely! Single men! Excellent prospects! More money in their pockets than you have in the bank! All to the winds! Yes! Thrown!

Out of pity. Your pitiful problems! Oh, what a heart-broken person who wept on my shoulders at night because no love, no comfort, no peace in his home! So tragic the life of this man, a fine mind threatened with break-down because of no love, no tenderness! Was I a rock? I was not! But a girl of nineteen intrigued by a grown man’s problems. Love was your need and I gave it, not just an affair, but a real deep spiritual love. I gave it all of that time and still do now in spite of your lies and your—

MAN: —Pink.

WOMAN: Pushing me back in your life! If that wasn’t marriage there’s no such a thing as a marriage and what dogs do is the same as human beings!

MAN: Pink—pink—pink!

WOMAN: What are you muttering?

MAN: —Pink.

[Pause. Clock ticks loudly.]

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