Susan Sontag:Alice in Bed.doc

  1. 1、本文档共48页,可阅读全部内容。
  2. 2、原创力文档(book118)网站文档一经付费(服务费),不意味着购买了该文档的版权,仅供个人/单位学习、研究之用,不得用于商业用途,未经授权,严禁复制、发行、汇编、翻译或者网络传播等,侵权必究。
  3. 3、本站所有内容均由合作方或网友上传,本站不对文档的完整性、权威性及其观点立场正确性做任何保证或承诺!文档内容仅供研究参考,付费前请自行鉴别。如您付费,意味着您自己接受本站规则且自行承担风险,本站不退款、不进行额外附加服务;查看《如何避免下载的几个坑》。如果您已付费下载过本站文档,您可以点击 这里二次下载
  4. 4、如文档侵犯商业秘密、侵犯著作权、侵犯人身权等,请点击“版权申诉”(推荐),也可以打举报电话:400-050-0827(电话支持时间:9:00-18:30)。
查看更多
Susan Sontag:Alice in Bed

Alice in Bed Characters Alice James Nurse Young Man Visions of family Father Henry (Harry), her brother Mother At the tea party Margaret Fuller Emily Dickinson Kundry Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis Mattress team M I (man) M II (woman) TIME: 1890 PLACE: London (Scene 3 is a flashback or memory, and takes place two decades earlier in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) SCENE 1 Blackout. (ALICEs bedroom.) NURSE? Of course you can get up. ALICE JAMES? I cant. NURSE? Wont. ALICE JAMES? Cant. NURSE? Wont. ALICE JAMES? Cant. Oh. All right. NURSE? Want to. Want to get up. ALICE JAMES? First turn on the light. SCENE 2 ALICEs bedroom. Victorian, overfurnished. French doors in the rear. Chaise longue, piano. ALICE -- around forty, long hair, childlike -- in a large brass bed, under a stack (ten?) of thin mattresses; her head, shoulders, and arms are free. NURSE, who is very tall and wears a uniform of striped mattress ticking, is perched cross-legged on top. NURSE? Are you going to get up. Its only a question of will power. ALICE JAMES? I think its time for my injection. NURSE? Dont change the subject. ALICE JAMES? Im not. My legs dont work. NURSE? I know the time. Hes coming at four. You like to please him. Hed be so happy to see you sitting up, in a chair. ALICE JAMES? I wonder. I think he likes to see me in bed. NURSE? Whatever for. (She jumps or climbs down.) ALICE JAMES? That way he knows where I am. Im in my place. NURSE? They visit. Your brother. Your friends. ALICE JAMES? Friends who are curious. They want to see if Im still alive. Theyre waiting. Im disappointing them. -- 4 -- NURSE? Wouldnt you care to visit them, lazybones. Arent you in the least bit curious. Havent you had enough of this room. ALICE JAMES? Go out. See, as they say, the world. NURSE? Yes. ALICE JAMES? I see better from here. (The light flickers.) NURSE? Dont tempt fate. ALICE JAMES? Thats exactly what I want to do. Tempt fate. Can you expl

文档评论(0)

zhuwenmeijiale + 关注
实名认证
内容提供者

该用户很懒,什么也没介绍

版权声明书
用户编号:7065136142000003

1亿VIP精品文档

相关文档