The Traveling Companion & Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

Author:Tennessee Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2016-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

GREEN EYES

or

NO SIGHT WOULD BE WORTH SEEING

Green Eyes was first performed at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival on September 25, 2008. It was directed by Jef Hall-Flavin; the set and lighting designs were by Megan Tracey; the costume design was by Clare Brauch; the sound design was by Katharine Horowitz; and the production stage manager was A.J. Stevenson. The cast was as follows:

GIRL: Jaimi Paige

BOY: Mike Rasmussen

WAITER: Latez Crawley

A boy and girl, about twenty years old, are rising from a double bed in a New Orleans hotel room. They are both from the rural South and are honeymooning in this French Quarter hotel. The room is silvery dim‚ as if the river mist had entered it. The boy has slept in his shorts but the girl is nude, and there are conspicuous abrasions on her body. Phonetic spelling of their speech is not invariably used after it has been established.

GIRL: I’m gittin’ up.

BOY: So’m I.

GIRL: Call fo’ breakfas’. [He ignores the suggestion.] Well, call for breakfas’, will yuh.

BOY: You call fo’ breakfas’.

GIRL: Ok. I’ll call fo’ breakfas’. You just sit there smokin’ an’— [She takes the phone off the hook.] —Room service. This is Mrs. Claude Dunphy. We checked in here yestiddy an’ we’d like some breakfas’ now. I want two soft-boiled eggs, not fried, soft boiled, coffee, two pieces of buttered toast. Claude? What do you want?

BOY: I want a explanation.

GIRL: Continental? What’s that consist of? —Oh? What’s a cwasong? —Ain’t you got a colored boy on the place that could run out for a couple of eggs? We’re goin’ sight-seein’ in New Awleuns t’day so I need a substantial breakfas’ in me. Hmm. Well, send two of them continental breakfasts out here quick as you kin. [She hangs up.] That abnawmal boy, he told me they wouldn’ send out fo’ two eggs. —Git off my panties.

BOY: I want a explanation. You got tooth an’ claw marks on yuh like yuh been t’ bed with a wildcat.

GIRL: You squeezed an’ bit me las’ night in yuh sleep.

BOY: I didn’ sleep. I stepped over you las’ night an’ turned my face to the wall.

GIRL: Thin how come I got all these bruises?

BOY: That’s what I’d like explanation of.

GIRL: You come in drunk near mawnin’, bit an’ bruised me, that’s the explanation.

BOY: That ain’t the explanation. Lies ain’t explanations.

GIRL: You’re one of them people that do things in their sleep.

BOY: I tole you I didn’ sleep.

GIRL: A man dead drunk is practicly asleep. At least his memory is. —Gimme a cigarette.

BOY: Take one. The pack’s right by you.

[She takes a cigarette from a pack on the night table.]

GIRL: Light it fo’ me.

BOY: Light it fo’ you’self. Don’t train you’self t’ be helpless. Five days from now I’m flyin’ back to Waakow1.

GIRL: You keep sayin’ that to me. “I’m flyin’ back to Waakow, I’m flyin’ back to Waakow.”

BOY: What’s the explanation?

GIRL: Of you goin’ back to Waakow?

BOY: No. Of the tooth an’ claw marks on your body.

GIRL: Your sex-starvation, I reckon. I kep’ sayin’ ouch, ouch, but you wouldn’t stop.

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