Act 1 Maule Flashcards
Eriksson: Mr. Maule
How do you do?
Maule: How do you do?
This is my wife - Mr. Maule. She just popped in for a minute and is now about to pop out again.
Liz: Don’t forget Garry I’ll be sitting by the telephone.
I’ll remember. (To Maule) Please sit down won’t you?
Thank you.
Cigarette?
No, thank you.
Don’t you smoke?
No.
Drink?
No, thank you.
How old are you?
Twenty-five. Why?
It doesn’t really matter - I just wondered.
How old are you?
Forty in December - Jupiter you know - very energetic.
Yes, of course.
So - you’ve come all the way from Uckfield.
It isn’t very far.
Well, it sort of sounds far, doesn’t it?
Mon: It’s a sweet little thing, but it looks far from well.
What did she want?
Her sister.
Well, we haven’t got HER, have we?
She lives two doors down in the mews. It was all a mistake.
This is my secretary, Miss Reed - Mr. Maule.
(about script) Thank you very much.
Quickly!
Mon: Yes, dear.
Sit down. I want to talk to you about your play.
I expect you hated it.
Well, to be candid, I thought it was a little uneven.
I thought you’d say that.
I’m glad I’m running so true to form.
I mean it really isn’t the sort of thing you would like, is it?
In that case why on earth did you send it to me?
I thought you just might like to have a shot at something deeper.
What is there in your play that you consider so deep, Mr. Maule? Apart from the plot which is completely submerged after the first four pages.
Plots aren’t important, it’s ideas that matter. Look at Chekov.
In addition to ideas I think we might concede Chekov a certain flimsy sense of psychology, don’t you?
You mean my play isn’t psychologically accurate?
It isn’t very good, you know, really it isn’t.
I think it’s very good indeed.
I understand that perfectly, but you must admit that my opinion might be the right one, based on a lifelong experience of the theatre.
The commercial theatre.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.