Triptych and Iphigenia by Edna O'Brien

Author:Edna O'Brien
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2003-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

SCENE TWENTY-FOUR

Lights.

Spotlight on each.

WIFE My husband was a wonderful man and a great writer … we were inseparable … so much so, that, he left a novel unfinished and I have decided to carry on the torch … it will be my hand but Henry’s immortal words.

DAUGHTER (showing a tattoo on her collar bone) What do you think Daddy … do you like it? I’m seeing Zachary now … big time … we’ve been dating for quite a while … he’s so wise, so different from all the other slobs … being a scientist he knows about the origins of life and stuff and I feel I can talk to him, tell him things, things about us, about you and me, the fun we had.

MISTRESS I know it seems crazy … but … there’s this pigeon that comes on my balcony at all hours … whitish with tan spots … without a mate … potters, potters about and I know, it’s Henry … I know it’s Henry making sure things are okay … keeping watch over me. (quieter) It folds its wings and settles down at night … Henry loved the night … the silence.

Mistress stops suddenly, turns and whistles softly.

The THREE stand very still.

CURTAIN

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