"Kurt Vonnegut - Happy Birthday Wanda-June" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vonnegut Kurt)

All but PENELOPE exit.

PENELOPE
(to the audience)
This is a tragedy. When it's done,
my face will be as white as the
snows of Kilimanjaro.
(hyena laughs)
My husband, who kills so much, has
been missing for eight years. He
disappeared in a light plane over
the Amazon Rain Forest, where he
hoped to find diamonds as big as
cantaloupes. His pilot was Colonel
Looseleaf Harper, who dropped the
bomb on Nagasaki.
(hyena laughs)
I should explain the doorbells in
this apartment. They were built by
Abercrombie and Fitch. They are
actual recordings of animal cries.
The back doorbell is a hyena, which
you've just heard. The front
doorbell is a lion's roar.
(to the wings)
Would you let them hear it please?
(lion roars)
Thank you.

PAUL, her twelve-year-old son, enters from corridor, a
sensitive, neatly dressed little rich boys.

PENELOPE
And this is my son, Paul. He was
only four years old when his father
disappeared.

PAUL
(radiantly, sappily)
He's coming back, Mom! He's the
bravest, most wonderful man who
ever lived.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE



PENELOPE
(to audience)