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and Actors burst out laughing.
The Father
Hurt. I am sorry you laugh, because we carry in us a drama, as you can guess from this woman here veiled in black.
The Manager
Losing patience at last and almost indignant. Oh, chuck it! Get away please! Clear out of here! To Property Man. For Heavenās sake, turn them out!
The Father
Resisting. No, no, look here, weā āā ā¦
The Manager
Roaring. We come here to work, you know.
Leading Actor
One cannot let oneself be made such a fool of.
The Father
Determined, coming forward. I marvel at your incredulity, gentlemen. Are you not accustomed to see the characters created by an author spring to life in yourselves and face each other? Just because there is no ābookā Pointing to the prompterās box. which contains us, you refuse to believeā āā ā¦
The Step-Daughter
Advances towards The Manager, smiling and coquettish. Believe me, we are really six most interesting characters, sir; sidetracked however.
The Father
Yes, that is the word! To The Manager all at once. In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to put us into a work of art. And this was a real crime, sir; because he who has had the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. He cannot die. The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. And to live for ever, it does not need to have extraordinary gifts or to be able to work wonders. Who was Sancho Panza? Who was Don Abbondio? Yet they live eternally becauseā ālive germs as they wereā āthey had the fortune to find a fecundating matrix, a fantasy which could raise and nourish them: make them live for ever!
The Manager
That is quite all right. But what do you want here, all of you?
The Father
We want to live.
The Manager
Ironically. For Eternity?
The Father
No, sir, only for a momentā āā ā¦ in you.
An Actor
Just listen to him!
Leading Lady
They want to live, in usā āā ā¦ā!
Juvenile Lead
Pointing to The Step-Daughter. Iāve no objection, as far as that one is concerned!
The Father
Look here! look here! The comedy has to be made. To The Manager. But if you and your actors are willing, we can soon concert it among ourselves.
The Manager
Annoyed. But what do you want to concert? We donāt go in for concerts here. Here we play dramas and comedies!
The Father
Exactly! That is just why we have come to you.
The Manager
And where is the ābookā?
The Father
It is in us! The Actors laugh. The drama is in us, and we are the drama. We are impatient to play it. Our inner passion drives us on to this.
The Step-Daughter
Disdainful, alluring, treacherous, full of impudence. My passion, sir! Ah, if you only knew! My passion for him! Points to The Father and makes a pretence of embracing him. Then she breaks out into a loud laugh.
The Father
Angrily. Behave yourself! And please donāt laugh in that fashion.
The Step-Daughter
With your permission, gentlemen, I, who am a two monthsā orphan, will show you how I can dance and sing. Sings and then dances Prenez garde a Tchou-Thin-Tchou.
Les chinois sont un peuple malin,
De ShangaĆ® Ć Pekin,
Ils ont mis des Ć©criteux partout:
Prenez garde Ć Tchou-Thin-Tchou.
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