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COLUMBINE: Pierrot, a macaroon,??”I cannot _live_ without a macaroon!
PIERROT: My only love,
You are _so_ intense! ... Is it Tuesday, Columbine???”
I??™ll kiss you if it??™s Tuesday.
[Curtains begin to close slowly.]
COLUMBINE: It is Wednesday,
If you must know. ... Is this my artichoke
Or yours?
PIERROT: Ah, Columbine, as if it mattered!
Wednesday. . . . Will it be Tuesday, then, to???morrow,
By any chance? . . .
[CURTAIN.]
AUTHOR??™S NOTE
ON THE PLAYING PO
ARIA DA CAPO
ORIGINAL CAST
AS PLAYED BY THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS, NEW YORK CITY
PIERROT HARRISON DOWD
COLUMBINE NORMA MILLAY
COTHURNUS HUGH FERRISS
CORYDON CHARLES ELLIS
THYRSIS JAMES LIGHT
AUTHOR??™S NOTE
So great is my vexation always, when reading a play, to find its
progress constantly being halted and its structure loosened by
elaborate explanatory parentheses, that I resolved when I should
publish Aria da Capo to incorporate into its text only those
explanations the omission of which might confuse the reader or lend
a wrong interpretation to the lines. Since, however, Aria da Capo
was written not only to be read but also to be acted, and being
conscious that the exclusion of the usual directions, while
clarifying the play to the reader, may make it bare of suggestions
and somewhat baffling to the producer, I am adding here some remarks
which have been found of value in preparing it for presentation on
the stage.
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