Jitney: A Play - Broadway Tie-In Edition by August Wilson & Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jitney: A Play - Broadway Tie-In Edition by August Wilson & Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Author:August Wilson & Ruben Santiago-Hudson [Wilson, August & Santiago-Hudson, Ruben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DRA000000, DRA001010
ISBN: 9781468315769
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2017-04-25T08:00:00+00:00


SCENE 4

(The lights come up on the jitney station a half-hour later. TURNBO and FIELDING have been joined by BOOSTER, who stands looking out the window. He is dressed in his prison-issued suit, and wears a white shirt without a tie.)

FIELDING

Yeah, I know your daddy real good. I’ve been driving jitneys with him for eight years now. And I worked off and on with him when he was down at the mill too. That’s when I was younger. Here, get yourself a nip.

(He drinks from the bottle and offers it to BOOSTER, who declines.)

BOOSTER

No thanks. You say he should be back in a minute?

TURNBO

He just went out on a short trip. He’ll be back in no time. Things done changed since the last time you seen them, I reckon.

BOOSTER

Yeah, pretty much.

TURNBO

They’re tearing everything down around here. All along Wylie there. You see they done tore everything down. They gonna tear this building down. They gonna board it up first of the month. We’re gonna have to move. Either that or split up. We can’t stay here no more.

FIELDING

You got to have somebody you can count on you know. Now my wife … we been separated for twenty-two years now … but I ain’t never loved nobody the way I loved that woman. You know what I mean?

BOOSTER

Yeah, I know.

FIELDING

She the only thing in the world that I got. I had a dream once. It just touched me so. I was climbing this ladder. It was a solid gold ladder and I was climbing up into heaven. I get to the top of the ladder and I can see all the saints sitting around … and I could see her too … sitting there in her place in glory. Just as I reached the top my hand started to slip and I called out for help. All them saints and angels … St. Peter and everybody … they just sat there and looked at me. She was the only one who left her seat in glory and tried to help me to keep from falling back down that ladder. I ain’t never forgot that. When I woke up … tears was all over my face, just running all down in my ears and I laid there and cried like a baby … cause that meant so much to me. To find out after all these years, that she still loved me.

BOOSTER

That’s some heavy drama, my man.

FIELDING

Oh, she love me all right. I know she do. I ain’t seen that woman in twenty-two years … but I know she loves me.

(FIELDING takes another drink as BECKER enters and stands in the doorway glaring at FIELDING.)

FIELDING

Hey Becker. I was just talking to your son.

BECKER

I thought I told you not to be here when I got back.

(FIELDING staggers to his feet.)

FIELDING

All right, Becker. You win. I’m gone.

(FIELDING starts toward the door. BECKER crosses to the stove and picks up the money.)

BECKER

Here. Take your money with you.

(FIELDING takes the money and starts to exit. He stops.



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