Playwright Portrait, Ann Marie Healy, Excerpt from What Once We Felt

The Playwright Ann Marie Healy, 2007

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WHAT ONCE WE FELT

ASTRID

Macy

You haven’t even touched—

Look at this food:

This is beautiful food!

You never get to eat at Panet

This food will change your life //

Enjoy enjoy my dear

MACY

Change your life

ASTRID

(Pulling a kumquat out and eating it with her fingers)

You really should try one

They’re stuffed full of liquor

Like sucking a shot from a wet sock!

MACY

What did you offer Claire to entice her?

ASTRID

I shouldn’t have

It was ahem

A very unconventional contingency //

I shouldn’t have even tried

MACY

What did you offer her?

(Pause)