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Getting Out

Arlene Horsclaw Carl

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Carl: What’s happenin�, Mama? You havin� lunch with the bugs?

Arlene: (Quietly.) F--- off.

Carl: (Threatening.) What’d you say?

[... � ... ]

End:

Carl: � Take him out on that boat they got goes roun� the island. Take him up to the Empire State Building, let him play King Kong. (Rubs her hair, unstudied tenderness.) He be talkin� about that trip his whole life.

Arlene: (Smoothing his hair.) I don’t want to go back to prison, Carl.

For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 54-57.

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