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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Line!! | I talk now? Publicly? (A beat.) I’m Mary Warren. I’m eighteen. I live in Salem Village. I work at the Proctor’s house. I have no other things to say. |
| I talk now? Publicly? (A beat.) I’m Mary Warren. I’m eighteen. I live in Salem Village. I work at the Proctor’s house. I have no other things to say. | Wow, thank you for listening. No one has really listened that much before. Feels good. But not in a sinful way—no! (She doesn’t go to leave.) |
| Wow, thank you for listening. No one has really listened that much before. Feels good. But not in a sinful way—no! (She doesn’t go to leave.) | Maybe I can find a bit more to say. By chance, have you heard about the witches? The ones in Salem. Wow, huh? Crazy. Like everyone is saying—what is happening to our village? This place used to be perfect. What happened? (A beat.) |
| Maybe I can find a bit more to say. By chance, have you heard about the witches? The ones in Salem. Wow, huh? Crazy. Like everyone is saying—what is happening to our village? This place used to be perfect. What happened? (A beat.) | Maybe not exactly perfect for everyone. Me, for instance. Not to go on about myself, but there’s nobody my age in the village who aren’t spoken for or dead from all the wars. |
| Maybe not exactly perfect for everyone. Me, for instance. Not to go on about myself, but there’s nobody my age in the village who aren’t spoken for or dead from all the wars. | Don’t worry, I’m fine—I’ve been resigned to dying alone since I was seven or so. Yet—because I have this awful need for human interaction, I hang out with Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. Who are twelve and nine. |
| Don’t worry, I’m fine—I’ve been resigned to dying alone since I was seven or so. Yet—because I have this awful need for human interaction, I hang out with Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. Who are twelve and nine. | Which is fine—eighteen-year-olds and nine- and twelve-year-olds have much in common. |
| Which is fine—eighteen-year-olds and nine- and twelve-year-olds have much in common. | I avoid Ann Putnam, Jr. I find her... unnatural. Options are a scarcity here in our lives. |
| I avoid Ann Putnam, Jr. I find her... unnatural. Options are a scarcity here in our lives. | See, a typical boy’s day in Salem: they get up, hunt, or fish, or hit stuff really hard with hammers all day. We are meant to sit. Sew stuff. Fold things. And hit nothing with hammers. |
| See, a typical boy’s day in Salem: they get up, hunt, or fish, or hit stuff really hard with hammers all day. We are meant to sit. Sew stuff. Fold things. And hit nothing with hammers. | (A beat, then spilling out.) I’ve been hiding something from you, which is terrible because you’ve been kind. |
| (A beat, then spilling out.) I’ve been hiding something from you, which is terrible because you’ve been kind. | Do you ever wonder about good and evil, and the consequences of your actions? Me too, all the time. Which brings me to my confession. I’ve done something terrible. |
| Do you ever wonder about good and evil, and the consequences of your actions? Me too, all the time. Which brings me to my confession. I’ve done something terrible. | Forsooth, I was there when all this began. This is what happened a day before anyone cried “witches!” Me and Abigail and Betty were at Reverend Parris’s house when— |
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