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Alice By Heart

Dodgy: Darling I’ve forgotten-is it day or night?

C: You Pick.

Tabatha: Funny how that happens, when the boys start growing bigger.

C: Oh my God-my pearls! Where are my pearls?

Harold Pudding: Shall we have some tea? Shall we? Tea for two? For him and me-and me?

C: Absolutely. With just a spit of Jam

Angus: One puff-and all this fades away. You're in some other dream.

C: Anywhere but here.

Red Cross Nurse: Tabatha! Such a trial!

C: Well, we all know who gets that Tabby’s vote for “Orphan of the Year.”

Dodgy: Clinging to some Kiddie book?

C: Appalling.

Red Cross Nurse: Pray God, we get through the night.

C: Pray to God? After what he’s put me through?

A: And soon Alice found she had cried herself into a pool of her own tears…

MT: Boo Hoo!! Boohoooooo.

A: Turtle? My poor Turtle?

MT: Turtle? Me? No, I am no longer a Turtle. Only a Mock turtle.

A: Oh, dear dear me.

MT: You Mock me!

A: Oh no no, I assure you.

MT: Ahhh, if only you knew who I used to be.

A: A terribly grand turtle, I should think.

MT: A baby grand, perhaps

Alice: But, what….

MT: Such a Salty Story, really. I can’t tell it.

A: Really?

MT: Not a word, until I finish please.

A: Sorry, I don’t see how you can finish if you never start.

MT: Once (Sobs). Once (Sobs). Once, when I-like you

A: Not I

MT: When like you-

A: Not me, yet

MT: Not yet you.

MT: Not yet you.

MT: When I had my Tortoise still with me… well, we called him “Tortoise,” because of course, he taught us: Corals, Shells, and Fractions, Addition and Subtraction, Reeling and then Writhing…

A: My friend and I, we read together in our garden, every day, but now all that’s been blown away.

MT: Your Garden? Im talking about my entire coral reef! I’m Floundering! You see, I-

A: Now who is he?

MT: A Mock Mock me. A Mockery.

MMT: I knew Tortoise too, you see

MT: But not like me

MMT: And yet, it all began with me

MT: Nay, me!

MMT: In truth, he thought you were a drama queen.

MT: Me?!

MMT: Ah, the life my torty and I had, before the Crash

MT: “Torty?”

MMMT: You think you know from misery? My Torty passed on my birthday!

MT: Your Torty?

A: Stop! Enough! No one has ever loved like me. I’ve lost everything. And now… I’ve lost him too.

MT: You see, we are a we!

MMT: Don’t. If you never move forward.

MT: You never have to leave your friend behind.

Cheshire Cat: You’re here. They make us all mad here.

QOD: Oh dear.

Cheshire Cat: A royal Jabberwocky.

QOD: She thought she was. What was

Angus: Amen,then.

C: Nothing to be done.

Alice: He wanted so to finish it. and she told her sister, as best she could remember.

C: Listen to her-still reading to him.

Alice: So, Alice Sat, and tightly closed her eyes.

C: Dear God

Tabatha: Sometimes, we overcome, you know, just by going on.

C: Well at least that Story’s done.