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"Cast Spell Part3" by SinonLife
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Cast Spell
GREG: Well, when we got there, sure enough, there was a teakettle whistling, and the rocker going back and forth. Will gave a funny look at me, and said to the rocker, "Granny, this is my friend, Greg.
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Don't you play your tricks and frighten him, now." And the rocker stopped.
MICKY: Was that all?
ELAINE: That's enough!
GREG: Right before I was to get the bus back, Will made us a last pot of coffee, poured the cups on the stove and started drinking his.
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I said, "hey, where's mine?" And then I saw that other coffee cup lift itself up off the counter and sail slowly through the air, to plop right down next to my hand.
RICH: No shit. You saw that?
GREG: I sure thought I did.
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BECKY: Brrr. I'm going home while I'm still brave enough. I think I'll wake Ben up before I crawl in. Coming, Micky?
MICKY: Not yet.
RICH: Hey, wait! Mrs. Farrell--Becky.I promised myself I'd get a dance with you before you go.
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BECKY: Fraid you'll have to disappoint yourself.
RICH: Oh, no! That kind of rumba move you did in Cabot's Reach. I've got to see it in the flesh.
BECKY; (demonstrates) You mean this?
RICH: Wow! Let me try. (demonstrates)
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MICKY: It loses something without the polka dots.
BECKY: And with the ten extra pounds.
RICH: All right! Music, Greg--
BECKY: No. That's as far as I go. I'm off to my suburban bed. Don't stay too late, Micky. You've got school tomorrow.
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GREG: Rich, did you give her the wallet?
RICH: Jeeze, I forgot. Here.
(hands BECKY a man's wallet.)
BECKY: What's this?
RICH: Isn't it your husband's?
GREG: It was left on the box office counter. He must've set it down when he chipped in for the wine.
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BECKY: Oh my.
MICKY: What are you looking at?
BECKY: Our wedding picture.
MICKY: Ben had a lot of hair, for just five years ago.
BECKY: Here you are, Micky. Isn't that sweet, Ben carries a picture of you.
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MICKY: That's Gypsy. I didn't know Ben had this. The only dog I ever had --. Gypsy was just a puppy when a car ran over him.
BECKY: Micky cried for three weeks.
MICKY: Pictures make me want to cry, too.
BECKY: This one does.
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RICH: Who's that? Is that you? The hair's different.
BECKY: I was dying it.
RICH: Well, you still look terrific, but-
BECKY: I decided I'd better outgrow that blatant sexiness.
RICH: Do people outgrow sex?
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GREG: Don't worry, Rich, you'll never outgrow anything.
BECKY: I'd better go. If Ben isn't missing me, he may be missing his wallet.
RICH: I'll walk you to your car.
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BECKY: I told you, young man: I've outgrown it! Bye, all. Micky? You have got your key?
MICKY: Right here. (BECKY exits)
RICH: Wow. Your mother's some woman.
VERNA: She has fascination.
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MICKY: You think so, Verna?
(MICKY pours herself a glass of vodka)
RICH : On your own now, kid.
MICKY: Greg, can I turn the stereo on?
(music up)
ELAINE: I'd like to try that move of Becky's, Rich--
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RICH: Later, Elaine. I'm about to make the move on Verna right now. (to VERNA) Do you dance for real, or just onstage?
VERNA: What do you think? (they dance)
ELAINE: Can I have some, too, or are you going to drink it all?
(gets bottle from MICKY
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GREG: I'll dance with you, Elaine.
ELAINE: Forget it, Greg. You're a very nice man, but you're not helping.
GREG: Want to dance, Paula?
PAULA: No thanks.
GREG: I guess I'm not much of a partner.
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PAULA: It's not you. I just don't feel very festive.
GREG: I'm the one should be depressed. It's my show.
PAULA: But it's my life.
GREG: Where's your friend Tom?
PAULA: Off to New York.
GREG: Just like that?
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PAULA: Uhhuh.
GREG: What'd you expect? An actor.
PAULA: A dedicated actor.
GREG: Won't you go too? You can't be a famous director around here.
PAULA: I'm not qualified to be a director. No megalomania.
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GREG: Don't let your experience with Steve get you down.
PAULA: I was impressed! We all were. I don't want to be like that, and I don't want to be married to that: driven, self- important, insecure--! Sorry. You're not one of them.
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GREG: Probably why I'm nowhere.
(VERNA whirls, goes to get wine)
MICKY: Don't stop, Verna! God, I love to watch her dance!
PAULA: I noticed. During the show.
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GREG: I'm about ready to learn computers. Something where I could have a family- or at least support myself.
RICH: Come on, Greg. Art can't pay the rent. We need a patron, a rich widow, a genii of the lamp-
PAULA: A foundation grant.
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RICH: Those are going the way of the dinosaurs. But even a grant's not good enough. A grant won't tell you you're great when the critics hate you. Won't give you back rubs. But a genii-
MICKY: I feel strange. a wonderful kind of strange.
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RICH: Why not, with the vodka you've put away? You'd better hope your family doesn't wait up for you.
MICKY: Feel the vibrations in this room! Something wonderful's just waiting to happen!
RICH: Funny thing it waited till your Mom went home.
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MICKY: I'm charged with energy. Feel it. Join hands and you'll all feel it, flowing through us.
(ELAINE touches MICKY)
ELAINE: Ouch! You're positively electric!
MICKY: We ought to have a seance. Or-?
(VERNA takes off her necklace)
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VERNA: The pendulum?
MICKY: Oh, yes. Like this, right, Verna? Spirits, are you here? Yes! (pendulum swings)
RICH: You're doing that! Hold still!
MICKY: Hold it yourself.
GREG: I'll do it. Spirits, are you here?
ELAINE: There it goes.
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RICH: It's the rotation of the earth, or something.
VERNA: Then try it the other way.
GREG: What?
VERNA: Ask the spirit to turn it the other way to mean yes.
GREG; OK, spirit. Left for yes. Counterclockwise. Are you there?
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ELAINE; There it goes the other way!
GREG; I really am trying to hold it still.
MICKY; I knew there were spirits in this room! We should turn out the lights, use a candle. See if there's a message.
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ELAINE; Here. Use this.
(Brings cake with candle, lights candle)
GREG; Now what?
VERNA; You should focus our minds.
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GREG; All right, now. Everybody concentrate on this pendulum.
Is there a message for someone here? (swings)
Yes. Is it for me? Elaine? Micky? Paula?
MICKY; It swung for me! I know it's for me!
GREG; What do I do now?
MICKY; Question it!
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VERNA; Don't lose concentration.
MICKY; It may be about my dream.
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GREG; This message? Is it from someone who's ..uh..crossed over?
(it is motionless)
Does it have to do with Micky's plans, something she should do?
(it spins back and forth)
Now what?
RICH; Ask if it's animal or mineral.
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GREG: Shut up, Rich. Everybody focus, OK? If I can, I'll ask career advice. For all of us. But first we've got to settle down. Don't we, Verna?
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VERNA: Concentrate. Try a low hummm, just a quiet vocalization of your breath. (All hummm, staring at the pendulum)
MICKY; The spiral. ELAINE: What?
GREG: Hush!
MICKY: It's drawing me. Round and around on the starpath.
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ELAINE: Look at her. She's in some kind of trance.
GREG; Hey, Micky! Micky, come out of it!
MICKY; Floating away, on the wind and the northern lights! Like a rainbow. I see all your auras, but far. Seven turns of the astral spiral. Dizzy, I'm so dizzy.
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Dark and bright in ringing waves. Verna! Tell them! Your old friends, the ancient souls. Hooded eyes, hawks eyes, huge red eyes burning in the dark!
PAULA; Shake her.
MICKY; I'm not ready, I'm afraid!
GREG shakes her)
GREG; Micky, open your eyes!
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MICKY; They want me to wear the hood, and the twisted burning cross. To step into the spiral.
(MICKY'S eyes are closed. She weaves spasmodically
RICH; Now what are we going to do?
MICKY; Verna! Help me! Help me across!
VERNA; I'm here, Micky.
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(VERNA puts her arms around MICKY)
MICKY; I'm all numb. I'm ice, ice, ice. My body's gone! Lost!
VERNA; Micky, Micaela, I 'm holding you here, can't you feel me?
RICH; Let me take her. Give her a pinch.
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MICKY; No! Don't touch, don't let him touch me! The dark smell- Verna! My breasts are melting!
PAULA; I'm going to call her mother.
(goes toward offstage telephone )
RICH; Wait a minute! How're we going to explain this?
(follows PAULA to door)
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PAULA; Let Micky explain it!
ELAINE; You hear that, Micky? You better wake up before we get your mother back here!
MICKY; No! Hide me! Help!
(PAULA walks up, slaps her)
PAULA; Now. Are you in your body?
(MICKY opens her eyes)
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MICKY; Verna?
VERNA; I'm here. (MICKY begins to weep)
MICKY; Why'd you let her?
PAULA; Sorry, Mick. You were hysterical. Can you get her a tissue, Greg?
VERNA; I'll take her.
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MICKY; She wants to drag everybody down. She doesn't understand, does she, Verna? Not one of them understands.
RICH; We're supposed to just let her carry on?
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MICKY; Something beautiful, something important, waiting for me-The first step toward my destiny.
GREG; Out of tissues. Can you use toilet paper?
VERNA; There, now. You weren't ready.
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PAULA; The alcohol, the let down-- . We had a group wish for something spectacular, and Micky responded to it.
MICKY; You think I'm sick? Or a fake?
PAULA; I don't know. I just asked why.
MICKY; Do the rest of you think that?
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GREG; Paula may be on the right track-
MICKY; She loves to be the one behind the scenes! Not in the audience, under the spell. Not onstage, and risking!Well, this isn't a show, whether you believe it or not!Spirits are real, they're out there,
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and once they're really with you you'll never have to feel lonely again.
RICH; especially when they tell you to cuddle up! "Hold my breasts, Verna honey, I'm flying away!"
ELAINE; Leave her alone, Rich.
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RICH; So she wants to get it on with Verna! Me, too. So what? Is that any reason to thrash around like a piece of spastic ectoplasm?
MICKY; Verna?
VERNA; It's all right, Micaela.
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RICH; Witchy-bitchy. You girls give me the creeps. Why are woman so goddamned devious?
ELAINE; Because men have all the power!
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VERNA; In Cajun country men are kings, little kings. Women learn the hard way what to use. In Moon Grove there was a girl, a girl just my age. Her Granny was a conjure woman,
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but the girl never had any truck with conjuring till the boy she loved ran off to New Orleans,and left her carrying his baby.Every night in her bed she'd moan and say his name. She didn't eat, but even so she began to swell.
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She went to her Granny and got some medicine, and then she went out in the Bayou under the full moon and moaned and moaned until that baby came out of her, dead.Now she hated that boy, and she was crazy for vengeance.
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She took the baby's cord, and she knotted it round a wax doll, and she dipped that doll in her blood and she held it over fire, crying on the power of the moon! And it came down to her.
MICKY: How did it come?