Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl
Author:Sarah Ruhl [Ruhl, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781559364294
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Scene 7
Backstage. The sound of applause.
He and She backstage. He leans on his crutches.
HE
They liked it.
SHE
They seemed to. How odd.
HE
There’s no accounting for taste.
They’re still clapping. Should we go on for another bow?
SHE
You whore.
HE
Should we?
SHE
No.
Let’s hide.
HE
Let’s.
They hide.
HE
I couldn’t take my eyes off you, I almost dropped a line, you were on fire.
SHE
But you didn’t.
HE
What?
SHE
Drop a line.
HE
No.
SHE
I wasn’t that distracting.
HE
I was watching from the wings, your last speech. It was so real. Even though the language was, I’m sorry, so fucking fake.
SHE
I don’t want to go to the party. Let’s not go to the party.
HE
Let’s not.
SHE
This—here—this feels like my real life. I don’t want to be me. I want to be Ada Wilcox.
HE
I don’t want Ada Wilcox.
I want you.
SHE
You do?
HE
Yeah.
They look at each other.
They kiss.
A real kiss.
SHE
I’m scared.
HE
Me too.
SHE
There’s no one watching.
HE
That’s why I’m scared.
SHE
When I kissed you just now did it feel like an actor kissing an actor or a person kissing a person because I’ve kissed you so many times over the last few weeks I’m starting to not know the difference.
HE
It felt like a person.
SHE
I’m a person.
I’m scared.
HE
No one will tell us how it will end.
SHE
No one will tell us when to stop.
HE
There may be no end to it . . .
They kiss.
Curtain.
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