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Character List (Dabby)
Character List (Dabby)
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in the scene?
Dabby Bryant is using her power to force herself into the play.
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in the scene?
Dabby is taking on a new skill.
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in the scene?
Dabby is blending into the woodwork to hide herself from the man trying to hurt her.
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in the scene?
Dabby is anxiously trying to show off what she has rehearsed to Ralph.
2. What is the essential action of what the character is doing in the scene?
Dabby is seeing her success in escaping from the prison colony.
DABBY. ...I could write scenes, Lieutenant, women with real lives, not these Shrewsbury prudes.
ARSCOTT. I’ll do the first speech anyway, Sir. ‘Yes, Sir, I understand my business, I 69 will say
it; you must know, Sir, I was born a gypsy, and bred among that crew till was ten year old, there I
learned canting and lying;’
ARSCOTT. ‘I was bought from my mother Cleopatra by a certain nobleman, for three guineas,
who liking my beauty made me his page’ –
DABBY. That’s my story. Why do I have to play a silly milkmaid? Why can’t I play Kite?
DABBY. No. I see things very clearly and I’m making you see clearly, Lieutenant. I want to play
Kite.
RALPH. I didn’t say you could – I’m not certain you’re the right – Bryant, I’m not certain I want
you in the play.
DABBY. Are you her friend now, is that it? Mary the holy innocent and thieving bitch –
(DABBY BRYANT is sitting on the ground muttering to herself with concentration. She could be
counting. )
(DABBY begins to lift MARY’s skirt to reveal a tattoo high up on the inner thigh. MARY leaps
away.)