Whos Afraid of Virgina Wolf Acting 2 Scene

Martha enters, followed by George

Jesus…

Shhhhh

…H. Christ…

For God’s Sake, Martha, it’s two o’clock in the…

Oh, George!

Well, I’m sorry but…

What a cluck! What a cluck you are.

It’s late, you know? Late.

What a dump. Hey, what’s that from? “What a dump!”

How would I know what…

Aw, come on! What it’s from? You know…

…Martha….

WHAT’S IT FROM FOR CHRIST’S SAKE?

What’s what from?

I just told you; I just did it. “What a dump!” Huhn? What’s that from?

I haven’t the faintest idea what…

Dumbbell! It’s from some goddamn Bette Davis picture… some goddamn Warner Brothers epic…

I can’t remember all the pictures that…

Nobody’s asking you to remember every single goddamn Warner Brothers epic…just one! One single little epic! Better Davis gets peritonitis in the end… she’s got this big black fright wig she wears all through the picture and she gets peritonitis, and she’s married to Joseph Cotten or something…

…Somebody…

…somebody…and she wants to go to Chicago all the time ‘cause she’s in love with that actor with the scar… But she gets sick, and she sits down in front of her dressing table…

What actor? What scar?

I can’t remember his name, for God’s sake. What’s the name of the picture? I want to know what the name of the picture is. She sits down in front of her dressing table, and she’s got this peritonitis…and she tries to her lipstick on, but she can’t… she gets it all over her face… but she decides to go to Chicago anyways, and…

Chicago! It’s called Chicago!

Hunh? What…what is?

The picture… its called Chicago…

Good grief! Don’t you know anything? Chicago was a thirties musical starring little miss Alice Faye. Don’t you know anything?

Well that was probably before my time, but…

Can it! Just cut that out! This picture… Better Davis comes home from a hard day at the grocery store…

She works in a grocery store?

She’s a housewife; she buys things… and she comes home with the groceries, and she walks into the modest living room of the modest cottage modest Joseph Cotten has set her up in…

Are they married?

Yes. They’re married. To each other. Cluck! And she comes in, and she looks around, and she puts her groceries down, and she says “What a dump!”

Oh

She’s discontent.

Oh.

Well, what’s the name of the picture?

I really don’t know, Martha…

Well, think!