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Rough for Theatre 1
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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| | Background >
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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Background >
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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Background >
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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Background >
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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Background >
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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Please use the menu on the left to navigate through this resource
Rough for Theatre 1
Background >
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The characters, 'A' and 'B', are two poor old men (thrice emphasised at the outset) who are each introduced alone and seated, suffering entrapment through a physical disability in the purgatorial existence that characterises the human condition: 'the same old moans and groans from the cradle to the grave … it's the same stink everywhere.' |
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Once, in their dead past, it seems that each would call on assistance. 'A' had 'a woman', Dora, who 'took me by the hand' but scorned him for 'the days I hadn't earned enough.' 'B' also had his woman 'to get me out of the chair in the evening and back into it again in the |
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morning and to push me as far as the corner when I went out of my mind.' Now alone, each endures his continuing suffering. |
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The sightless 'A' is forever asking questions about the light and the twilight and the evening and when it will be night. 'B' (confined to a wheelchair on account of having had one leg amputated) is sighted but finds little advantage in the condition. When he does look about him he sees only the gutter, or imagines a muckheap. He is quite pragmatic and poses the possibility of their interdependence but is easily irritated and physically threatens 'A.' |
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As the provoked 'A' whirls round, seizes the end of the pole and wrenches it from B's grasp, questions about man's humanity and inhumanity inhabit the final tableaux. |
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