Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams

Author:Tennessee Williams [Williams, Tennessee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: e9780811225939
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2015-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

JANE: Would you care for some coffee?

WRITER: Thanks, no, I just take it in the morning.

JANE: Then please have a drink with me. I need a drink. Please, please come in. [Jane is speaking hysterically but abruptly controls it.] Excuse me—would you pour the drinks—I can’t. I . . .

WRITER [crossing to the cabinet]: Will you have . . .

JANE: Bourbon. Three fingers.

WRITER: With?

JANE: Nothing, nothing.

[The writer glances again at Tye as he pours the bourbon.]

Nothing . . . [The writer crosses to her with the drink.] Nothing. And you?

WRITER: Nothing, thanks. I have to retype the manuscripts soaked in the rain.

JANE: Manuscripts, you said? Oh, yes, you’re a writer. I knew, it just slipped my mind. The manuscripts were returned? Does that mean rejection? —Rejection is always so painful.

WRITER [with shy pride]: This time instead of a printed slip there was this personal signed note . . .

JANE: Encouraging—that. Oh, my glass is weeping—an Italian expression. Would you play barman again? Please? [She doesn’t know where to put the letter, which he keeps glancing at.]

WRITER: Yes, I am encouraged. He says, “This one doesn’t quite make it but try us again.” Story magazine—they print William Saroyan, you know!

JANE: It takes a good while to get established in a creative field.

WRITER: And meanwhile you’ve got to survive.

JANE: I was lucky, but the luck didn’t hold. [She is taking little sips of the straight bourbon.]

WRITER: You’re—upset by that—letter? I noticed it came from—isn’t Ochsner’s a clinic?

JANE: Yes, actually. I am, I was. It concerns a relative rather—critically ill there.

WRITER: Someone close to you?

JANE: Yes. Quite close, although lately I hardly recognize the lady at all anymore . . .

[Tye stirs on the bed; the writer irresistibly glances at him.]

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