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    Act Without Words II

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    This document provides the script for Samuel Beckett's mime titled "Act Without Words II". It involves two characters, A and B, who perform contrasting routines in three positions on a platform at the back of the stage. A is slow and awkward, while B is brisk and precise. The mime follows their movements as they are prodded from their sacks, dress, exercise, and eventually crawl back into the sacks, with their relative positions changing in each section.

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    Act Without Words II

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    This document provides the script for Samuel Beckett's mime titled "Act Without Words II". It involves two characters, A and B, who perform contrasting routines in three positions on a platform at the back of the stage. A is slow and awkward, while B is brisk and precise. The mime follows their movements as they are prodded from their sacks, dress, exercise, and eventually crawl back into the sacks, with their relative positions changing in each section.

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    This document provides the script for Samuel Beckett's mime titled "Act Without Words II". It involves two characters, A and B, who perform contrasting routines in three positions on a platform at the back of the stage. A is slow and awkward, while B is brisk and precise. The mime follows their movements as they are prodded from their sacks, dress, exercise, and eventually crawl back into the sacks, with their relative positions changing in each section.

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    Act Without Words II

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    Moyra Silva
    This document provides the script for Samuel Beckett's mime titled "Act Without Words II". It involves two characters, A and B, who perform contrasting routines in three positions on a platform at the back of the stage. A is slow and awkward, while B is brisk and precise. The mime follows their movements as they are prodded from their sacks, dress, exercise, and eventually crawl back into the sacks, with their relative positions changing in each section.

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    Act Without Words II

    A mime for two players

    by Samuel Beckett
    Written, according to Beckett, at about the same time as Act
    Without Words I (1956). Translated from the French by the
    author and first published in New Departure, vol. 1 (Summer,
    1959). First performed probably at the Institute of
    Contemporary Arts, London, on 25 January 1960.
    NOTE
    This mime should be played on a low and narrow platform at
    back of stage, violently lit in its entire length, the rest of the
    stage being in darkness. Frieze effect.
    A is slow, awkward (gags dressing and undressing), absent. B
    brisk, rapid, precise. The two actions therefore, though B has
    more to do than A, should have approximately the same
    duration.
    ARGUMENT
    Beside each other on ground, two yards from right wing, two
    sacks, A's and B's, A's being to right (as seen from auditorium)
    of B's, i.e. nearer right wing. On ground beside sack B a little
    pile of clothes (C) neatly folded (coat and trousers surmounted
    by boots and hat).

    Enter goad right, strictly horizontal. The point stops a


    foot short of sack A. Pause. The point draws back, pauses,
    darts forward into sack, withdraws, recoils to a foot short of
    sack. Pause. The sack does not move. The point draws back
    again, a little further than before, pauses, dart forward again
    into sack, withdraws, recoils to a foot short of sack. Pause.
    The sack moves. Exit goad.
    A, wearing shirt, crawls out of sack, halts, broods, prays,
    broods, gets to his feet, broods, takes a little bottle of pills
    from his shirt pocket, broods, swallows a pill, puts bottle
    back, broods, goes to clothes, broods, puts on clothes, broods,
    takes a large partly eaten carrot from coat pocket, bites off a
    piece, chews an instant, spits it out with disgust, puts carrot
    back, broods, picks up two sacks, carries them bowed and
    staggering half-way to left wing, sets them down, broods,
    takes off clothes (except shirt), lets them fall in an untidy
    heap, broods, takes another pill, broods, kneels, prays, crawls
    into sack and lies still, sack A being now to left of sack B.
    Pause.
    Enter goad right on wheeled support (one wheel). The
    point stops a foot short of sack B. Pause. The point draws
    back, pauses, darts forward into sack, withdraws, recoils to a
    foot short of sack. Pause. The sack moves. Exit goad.
    B, wearing shirt, crawls out of sack, gets to his feet, takes
    from shirt pocket and consults a large watch, puts watch
    back, does exercises, consults a large watch, puts watch back,
    does exercises, consults watch, takes a tooth brush from shirt
    pocket and brushes teeth vigorously, puts brush back, rubs
    scalp vigorously, takes a comb from shirt pocket and combs
    hair, puts comb back, consults watch, goes to clothes, puts

    them on, consults watch, takes a brush from coat pocket and
    brushes clothes vigorously, brushes hair vigorously, puts
    brush back, takes a little mirror from coat pocket and
    inspects appearance, puts mirror back, takes carrot from coat
    pocket, bites off a piece, chews and swallows with appetite,
    puts carrot back, consults watch, takes a map from coat
    pocket and consults it, puts map back, consults watch, takes
    a compass from coat pocket and consults it, puts compass
    back, consults watch, picks up two sacks and carries them
    bowed and staggering to two yards short of left wing, sets
    them down, consults watch, takes off clothes (except shirt),
    folds them in a neat pile, consults watch, does exercises,
    consults watch, rubs scalp, combs hair, brushes teeth,
    consults and winds watch, crawls into sack and lies still, sack
    B being now to left of sack A as originally.
    Pause.
    Enter goad right on wheeled support (two wheels). The
    point stops a foot short of sack A. Pause. The point draws
    back, pauses, darts forward into sack, withdraws, recoils to a
    foot short of sack. Pause. The sack does not move. The point
    draws back again, a little further than before, pauses, darts
    forward again into sack, withdraws, recoils to a foot short of
    sack. Pauses. The sack moves. Exit goad.
    A crawls out of sack, halts, broods, prays.
    CURTAIN
    POSITION 1

    C B A <===

    POSITION II

    C A B <==========

    POSITION III

    C B A <======================

    STAGE FRONT

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