Five Kinds of SilenceDramatists Play Service, Inc., 2004 - 31 pages Five Kinds of Silence begins with a murder, but this is no whodunit, for we see the killers and the killing. Nor is it a "why did they do it?" for we know from the first speech that the victim, Billy, is a wife-beater and it is soon revealed that he physically and sexually abused his two daughters, Janet and Susan, for a period of decades, not just years. What the play does is to look at the effects on the abused and, through a series of set piece speeches (one immediately before and the others after death), the motivation of the abuser. |
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440 Park Avenue ANGRY INCH Bang bitch blind bloody bugger bloody tears boots Boston Phoenix breath cold Crossfade to Billy Crossfade to Janet Crossfade to Mary Crossfade to Susan cup of tea D'you think dance dark dead DETECTIVE door DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE dreams drink everything face Fade down lights father feel felt FIVE KINDS Fizz flickering frightened girls go to prison hands happen head heart Hedwig I'm not dead INISHMORE INSPECTOR ISBN kill KINDS OF SILENCE kiss knew laughing LAWYER live look look look Marriage mother mouth Music neat never nice night noise Pardon Park Avenue South Pause piss police POLICEMAN rifle say goes Shel Silverstein shoot shot shout Shredded Wheat sleep smell Sometimes stop Stupid bastards Susan and Janet tears tell thing throat told trying voice walk whisky