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    Beckett Samuel Come and Go PDF

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    This document provides stage directions for a Samuel Beckett play titled "Come and Go". It outlines the positioning and movements of three female characters - Flo, Vi, and Ru - who sit silently together on stage, occasionally speaking and exiting. Over the course of the play, each character whispers to the others about changes they have noticed, and they eventually join hands in a symbolic gesture as the lights fade.

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    This document provides stage directions for a Samuel Beckett play titled "Come and Go". It outlines the positioning and movements of three female characters - Flo, Vi, and Ru - who sit silently together on stage, occasionally speaking and exiting. Over the course of the play, each character whispers to the others about changes they have noticed, and they eventually join hands in a symbolic gesture as the lights fade.

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    This document provides stage directions for a Samuel Beckett play titled "Come and Go". It outlines the positioning and movements of three female characters - Flo, Vi, and Ru - who sit silently together on stage, occasionally speaking and exiting. Over the course of the play, each character whispers to the others about changes they have noticed, and they eventually join hands in a symbolic gesture as the lights fade.

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    Beckett Samuel Come and Go PDF

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    Andrew Key
    This document provides stage directions for a Samuel Beckett play titled "Come and Go". It outlines the positioning and movements of three female characters - Flo, Vi, and Ru - who sit silently together on stage, occasionally speaking and exiting. Over the course of the play, each character whispers to the others about changes they have noticed, and they eventually join hands in a symbolic gesture as the lights fade.

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    The play appears to depict three elderly women meeting and reminiscing about their past together.

    It is about three elderly women, Flo, Vi, and Ru, who meet to sit together and discuss their memories of time spent together in the past.

    The three characters, Flo, Vi, and Ru, are portrayed as being very similar in appearance, wearing dull colored coats and hats. They sit together silently for most of the play.

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    and other. short dramatic pieces
    Grove Press, Inc.
    New York
    Come and Go
    dramaticule
    f or John Calder
    FI . 0
    I
    VI Age undeter~llinable
    RI 1
    l
    Sitting cei~tre side by side stage right to left FLO, VI, and
    RIJ. Very erect, faciilg front, hands clasped in laps.
    Silence.
    \!I: Ru.
    Rlr: YCS.
    VI: Flo.
    ~ 1 . 0 : Yes.
    vl : When did we three last meet?
    RU: Let us not speak.
    Silence.
    Exit VI right.
    Silence.
    ~1 . 0 : Ru.
    R U: Yes.
    F1.o: IVhat do you think of Vi?
    RU: I see little change. ( ~1. 0 inoves to cadre seat, whispers
    iit Rtl's ear. Appalled.) Oh! (They iook at each other.
    ~ r . 0 puts her finger to her lips.) Dt xs she not realize?
    ~1. 0: God grant not.
    Enter VI. FLO and RU turn back front, resume pose. vr
    sits right. Sileitce.
    FLO: Just sit together as we used to, in the playground at
    Miss Wade's.
    68 / Samuel Beckett
    RU: On the log.
    Silence.
    Exit FLO left.
    Silence.
    RU: Vi.
    VI : Yes.
    RU: How do you find Flo?
    \!I: She seems much thc same. ( RU moves to centre seat,
    whispers in Vi's ear. Appalled.) Oh! (Tltey look at
    each other. RU puts her finger to her lips.)Has she not
    been told?
    RU: God forbid.
    Enter ~1. 0. R U alid VI turn back front, resume pose. FLO
    sits left. SiIeizce.
    RU: Ilolding hands . . . that way.
    FLO: Ilrcaming of . . . love.
    Sileilce.
    Exit RU right.
    Silence.
    vr: Flo.
    F1. o: Yes.
    \ {I: I-low do jrou think 1111 is looking?
    FLO: One sees little in this light. (v1 moves to centre seat,
    lc~llispers in Flo's ear. ~l ppal l ed. ) Oh! (They look at
    each other. v1 puts her finger to her lips.) Does she
    not know?
    VI : Plcasc God not.
    Erlter RU. VI and FLO t ur l ~ back front, resurile pose. RU
    sits right. Silence.
    \.I: hIay we not spcak of thc old days? (Silence.) Of what
    Come and Go / 69
    l
    callie after? (Silence.) Shall we hold hands in the old
    way?
    After a ~i i or ne~i t they join hands as follows: Vi's right
    hrjrld ~vitll Rtl's right Ildnd, Vi's left hand with Flo's
    left hand, Flo's riglrt hand with Ru's left hand, Vi's
    clrtrls being abolv lill's left arm and Flo's right arm.
    ?'he tllree pairs of clasped hands rest on the three Zaps.
    Silence.
    Silence.
    NOTES
    Successive positions
    1 Flo Vi Ru
    Ru
    Flo Ru
    3, Vi Flo Ru
    { Ru
    Ru
    5 Vi Ru Flo
    6 lvi Vi F'lo Flo
    I-lands
    R u V i Flo
    W
    Lighting
    Soft, from above only and concentrated on playing area.
    Rest of stage as dark as possible.
    Costume
    Full-length coats, buttoned high, dull violet (RU), dull red
    ( vI ) , dull yellow ( FLO) . Drab nondescript hats with enough
    brim to shade faces. Apart from colour differentiatio~l three
    figures as alike as possible. Light shoes with rubber soles.
    I-lands made up to be as visible as possible. No rings
    apparent.
    t
    Come and Go / 71
    Seat
    Narrow benchlike seat, without back, just long enough t o
    accomn~odate three figures almost touchiilg. As little visible
    as possible. It should not be clear what tbey are sitting on.
    Exits
    l' llc figures arc not secn to go off stagr They should dis-
    allpear a few steps from lit area. If d a i not sufficient to
    allow this, recourse s ho~~l d be had to screens or drapes as
    little visible as possible. Exits and entrances slow, without
    sound of feet.
    Ohs
    'I'lircc \'cry different sounds
    Voices
    As low as compatible with audibility. Coloudess except for
    three "ohs" and two lines following.

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