Playwright Portrait, Melissa James Gibson, Excerpt from This

The Playwright Melissa James Gibson, 2006

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THIS

ALAN

What if you wake up and discover you’ve been living a dinky life you know

JEAN-PIERRE

A What life

ALAN

Dinky/ dinky

JEAN-PIERRE

I don’t know this word Dinky

ALAN

Of no importance

JEAN-PIERRE

Dinky

ALAN

Like when 

you’re in the middle of telling someone a story and as you’re telling it say 

midway through 

you realize that your story isn’t as good as you thought it was but

It’s Too Late To Go Back

Do you ever fear that your life is like that