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  1.  
  2. FACADE STAGEPLAY
  3. Fri Nov 10 13 59 12 2017
  4.  
  5. GRACE
  6. Trip, when are you going to get rid of this?
  7.  
  8. TRIP
  9. What, Grace... this?
  10.  
  11. GRACE
  12. Yes, you know how I feel about it --
  13.  
  14. TRIP
  15. I know I know I'll do it right now, alright?!
  16.  
  17. GRACE
  18. You know I've had to ask you about this several --
  19.  
  20. TRIP
  21. Get off my back! I'll get rid of it in just a minute!
  22.  
  23. GRACE
  24. Fine, Trip... fine...
  25.  
  26. (Trip opens the front door.)
  27.  
  28. TRIP
  29. Jim!! -- (interrupted)
  30.  
  31. GRACE
  32. No, no, here we are!
  33.  
  34. GRACE
  35. Jim,
  36.  
  37. GRACE
  38. Hi! How are you? Oh it's so nice to see you, it feels like it's been forever!
  39.  
  40. (Jim sits on the couch.)
  41.  
  42. TRIP
  43. Yeah, it has been a long time.
  44.  
  45. GRACE
  46. And, I've got to say, you look really good!
  47.  
  48. GRACE
  49. Well, make yourself at home!
  50.  
  51. TRIP
  52. Huh, I'll close the door.
  53.  
  54. GRACE
  55. Well, so, make yourself at home...
  56.  
  57. (Trip closes the front door.)
  58.  
  59. TRIP
  60. Huh, I'll close the door.
  61.  
  62. TRIP
  63. Oh, Jim, take a look at this photo I just put up from our trip to Italy a couple of weeks ago...
  64.  
  65. GRACE
  66. (little sigh)
  67.  
  68. TRIP
  69. Jim, Come here, I want you to look at this!
  70.  
  71. GRACE
  72. (little sigh)
  73.  
  74. GRACE
  75. Trip, darling, your obsession with that photo of yours is making our friend uncomfortable.
  76.  
  77. TRIP
  78. (little sigh)
  79.  
  80. (Trip shakes the advice ball.)
  81.  
  82. TRIP
  83. Could be.
  84.  
  85. TRIP
  86. Heh!
  87.  
  88. GRACE
  89. (little sigh)
  90.  
  91. GRACE
  92. Jim, seeing you again makes me remember the wonderful times we all used to have.
  93.  
  94. GRACE
  95. H-mmm (happy smile sound)
  96.  
  97. TRIP
  98. Ha ha, yeah...
  99.  
  100. TRIP
  101. Hey, I just realized something.
  102.  
  103. GRACE
  104. What...
  105.  
  106. TRIP
  107. We have to celebrate! Tonight's a special night!
  108.  
  109. GRACE
  110. What do you mean?
  111.  
  112. TRIP
  113. Jim, remember, it was almost exactly ten years ago, tonight, that you introduced us.
  114.  
  115. TRIP
  116. Senior year of college!
  117.  
  118. GRACE
  119. Oh... geez...
  120.  
  121. TRIP
  122. Remember that?
  123.  
  124. TRIP
  125. Um, well, without you, we wouldn't even have this celebration.
  126.  
  127. GRACE
  128. (big sigh)
  129.  
  130. GRACE
  131. Jim, you're not enjoying this are you?
  132.  
  133. TRIP
  134. What?
  135.  
  136. GRACE
  137. Listen to us, we're arguing in front of our friend.
  138.  
  139. TRIP
  140. Grace, come on, that kind of statement is not helpful...
  141.  
  142. GRACE
  143. Trip, there's nothing wrong with disagreeing in front of our friend --
  144.  
  145. TRIP
  146. Disagreeing?! We're NOT disagreeing. We're, we're not.
  147.  
  148. TRIP
  149. (frustrated sigh) Sheejus.
  150.  
  151. (Trip shakes the advice ball.)
  152.  
  153. TRIP
  154. Uh, don't get your hopes up, huh heh heh heh.
  155.  
  156. TRIP
  157. Ha ha, ha, this crazy thing, always giving me the wrong advice, heh.
  158.  
  159. GRACE
  160. Trip, are you going to carry that thing around all evening?
  161.  
  162. TRIP
  163. (frustrated sigh)
  164.  
  165. GRACE
  166. You know, ever since we got married, Trip is forever trying to get me to buy new furniture, and redecorate,
  167.  
  168. GRACE
  169. and -- and it's true, I kind of enjoy it but...
  170.  
  171. TRIP
  172. Well, yeah, it's great, everybody loves it when they come in and see our latest decoration scheme!
  173.  
  174. GRACE
  175. But, Jim, you have to look at this room, and admit it looks terrible.
  176.  
  177. TRIP
  178. Grace --
  179.  
  180. GRACE
  181. I mean, look around, this room is... it's hideous!
  182.  
  183. TRIP
  184. Grace, no, no, don't say that!
  185.  
  186. GRACE
  187. You know at work I waste all day designing ads for apartments like this,
  188.  
  189. GRACE
  190. and then it makes me think, I want this style for my apartment...
  191.  
  192. TRIP
  193. This style make me feel like I'm inside one of your ads, it's great!
  194.  
  195. GRACE
  196. but... dammit, I'm wrong, it is just not coming together at all!
  197.  
  198. TRIP
  199. Not coming together... what?
  200.  
  201. GRACE
  202. (frustrated sigh)
  203.  
  204. TRIP
  205. Grace, everything's fine! No one is complaining about your decorating --
  206.  
  207. GRACE
  208. No, decorating is just --
  209.  
  210. GRACE
  211. (frustrated sigh)
  212.  
  213. GRACE
  214. There must be some way I could --
  215.  
  216. TRIP
  217. Grace, listen to me, people like your decorating, you're the only one who feels this way!
  218.  
  219. GRACE
  220. Uhh, you are impossible...!
  221.  
  222. GRACE
  223. I'm never happy...
  224.  
  225. GRACE
  226. Trip, our whole marriage, you're so... controlling!
  227.  
  228. TRIP
  229. (little impatient sigh) Jim, can you believe this?
  230.  
  231. TRIP
  232. (frustrated sigh)
  233.  
  234. GRACE
  235. No one is complaining...
  236.  
  237. GRACE
  238. I'm stifled, Trip! Artistically! I need my life to have more feeling! Can't you see that?
  239.  
  240. TRIP
  241. Oh, god...!
  242.  
  243. GRACE
  244. Alright, you know what, Jim,
  245.  
  246. GRACE
  247. I'm going to ask you something.
  248.  
  249. TRIP
  250. Grace --
  251.  
  252. GRACE
  253. Trip, let me ask our guest a question.
  254.  
  255. GRACE
  256. Jim, yes or no...
  257.  
  258. GRACE
  259. Does marriage have to be the most highest, beautiful, most passionate, thing in your life?
  260.  
  261. TRIP
  262. What?
  263.  
  264. GRACE
  265. I mean, is it wrong to have other things in your life that are more passionate than your marriage?
  266.  
  267. GRACE
  268. Yes or no.
  269.  
  270. GRACE
  271. Look, don't bother answering, I don't need to hear it!
  272.  
  273. GRACE
  274. There's no passion in our marriage, Trip, no... beauty... no anything! It's completely and utterly devoid of everything!
  275.  
  276. TRIP
  277. Oh, come on...!
  278.  
  279. TRIP
  280. Uhh! You are heartless.
  281.  
  282. TRIP
  283. Just stay away from me.
  284.  
  285. TRIP
  286. Uhh... goddammit, Grace...
  287.  
  288. TRIP
  289. Oh... uhh...
  290.  
  291. TRIP
  292. Jim, this has never ever happened before...!
  293.  
  294. TRIP
  295. uhh...
  296.  
  297. TRIP
  298. Look, if -- if you need to go, you know...
  299.  
  300. TRIP
  301. Oh, Jesus... Christ...
  302.  
  303. GRACE
  304. What? If you're talking to me, I can't hear you!
  305.  
  306. TRIP
  307. I didn't say anything!
  308.  
  309. GRACE
  310. Jim, (annoyed sigh) Trip is just so...
  311.  
  312. TRIP
  313. Oh, we're talking about me again, are we?
  314.  
  315. GRACE
  316. What?
  317.  
  318. GRACE
  319. Jim, it's time that Trip finally just admits that our marriage --
  320.  
  321. TRIP
  322. Grace, don't, no, you don't need to --
  323.  
  324. GRACE
  325. Admits that our marriage is not --
  326.  
  327. TRIP
  328. Stop it, stop it! (annoyed sigh)
  329.  
  330. GRACE
  331. Uhh...! God...!
  332.  
  333. GRACE
  334. Look, let's not focus on just me or you, let's talk about us.
  335.  
  336. GRACE
  337. You know what's so annoying, is when you pretend to be all 'romantic'!
  338.  
  339. TRIP
  340. What...?
  341.  
  342. GRACE
  343. Trip, it is such an act!
  344.  
  345. TRIP
  346. Oh my God... Jim, what... uhh...
  347.  
  348. GRACE
  349. Let's keep the focus on us, our relationship.
  350.  
  351. GRACE
  352. Trip, can't you see, it's the way you speak, the way you talk to me...!
  353.  
  354. TRIP
  355. What, I'm not allowed to be angry?
  356.  
  357. GRACE
  358. You tell me what to do, you don't listen.
  359.  
  360. TRIP
  361. Jim, I'm not telling her what to do, I'm trying to help her!
  362.  
  363. GRACE
  364. Trip, you just pretend to like all this stuff... fancy cigars, and fine wine...
  365.  
  366. TRIP
  367. You think I'm not good enough...!
  368.  
  369. GRACE
  370. I never said that! I'm saying there's more to you than all this...
  371.  
  372. GRACE
  373. Damn it, Trip, you and my parents are always planning these stupid trips I have to go on..
  374.  
  375. TRIP
  376. They're vacations! Expensive ones at that!
  377.  
  378. GRACE
  379. Of course nobody thinks to ask me what I want.
  380.  
  381. TRIP
  382. Oh, now it's all my fault. Just because your parents and I get along, now it's some big conspiracy.
  383.  
  384. GRACE
  385. God...
  386.  
  387. TRIP
  388. Look, I think we should focus on Grace.
  389.  
  390. (Jim gets up from the couch.)
  391.  
  392. TRIP
  393. Grace, I don't think you really do want us to quit our jobs, lead a simpler lifestyle.
  394.  
  395. GRACE
  396. What? Trip, you know what I --
  397.  
  398. (Jim sits on the couch.)
  399.  
  400. TRIP
  401. Oh come on! You grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. You can't live any other way.
  402.  
  403. GRACE
  404. Look, let's not focus on just me or you, let's talk about us.
  405.  
  406. GRACE
  407. I think Trip's afraid of visiting his parents. He does everything he can to avoid seeing them.
  408.  
  409. TRIP
  410. Afraid of my parents?! My parents are idiots.
  411.  
  412. GRACE
  413. No, it's true...
  414.  
  415. GRACE
  416. Let's keep talking about us, our relationship.
  417.  
  418. TRIP
  419. It's so annoying... Grace, why is it that anytime I want to do something nice for you, you resist it?
  420.  
  421. GRACE
  422. Trip...
  423.  
  424. TRIP
  425. Like I always have to convince you?
  426.  
  427. GRACE
  428. Jim, you know, we... uhh...
  429.  
  430. TRIP
  431. You know, I can't say Grace never acts loving towards me...
  432.  
  433. TRIP
  434. Jim, She's all over me at our goddamn parties, trying to look good in front of the guests!
  435.  
  436. TRIP
  437. Okay, that's it, no more of this bullshit!!
  438.  
  439. TRIP
  440. Jim, I know what you're trying to hint at...
  441.  
  442. TRIP
  443. about me...
  444.  
  445. TRIP
  446. Do you two want the truth? Huh?
  447.  
  448. TRIP
  449. Jim, are you ready to hear it?
  450.  
  451. TRIP
  452. Grace?
  453.  
  454. GRACE
  455. Yes...!
  456.  
  457. TRIP
  458. Jim, say something!
  459.  
  460. TRIP
  461. Jim, see I've actually been paying close attention to what you've been saying.
  462.  
  463. TRIP
  464. You've been trying to push me.
  465.  
  466. TRIP
  467. It makes me wonder if you're really my friend or not.
  468.  
  469. GRACE
  470. Trip!
  471.  
  472. TRIP
  473. Jim, I ask you this -- yes or no...
  474.  
  475. TRIP
  476. Do you really think that...
  477.  
  478. TRIP
  479. and you don't even say 'yes' when I ask you if you want the truth...
  480.  
  481. TRIP
  482. that all that is supposed to help me understand something about myself?
  483.  
  484. TRIP
  485. Was the little you've said tonight intended to mean something, or...
  486.  
  487. TRIP
  488. Is it? Just give me a yes or no.
  489.  
  490. TRIP
  491. This is not a trick question.
  492.  
  493. TRIP
  494. No? Huh... I'm surprised you say that, I thought it did.
  495.  
  496. TRIP
  497. Okay... look... heh heh... (big sigh)
  498.  
  499. TRIP
  500. Jim, Everything's fine... we're -- we're not... uhh... we're fine.
  501.  
  502. (Jim gets up from the couch.)
  503.  
  504. GRACE
  505. Yeah... yeah.
  506.  
  507. TRIP
  508. If you need to go, you know, that -- that's -- that's fine...
  509.  
  510. TRIP
  511. You know, Jim, nothing's changed, we're fine... we'll see you out.
  512.  
  513. (Jim knocks on the front door.)
  514.  
  515. (Jim opens the front door.)
  516.  
  517. TRIP
  518. Alright, so, um, we'll, we'll, we'll -- we'll see you, at some point, stay in touch, alright?
  519.  
  520. (Jim points to the elevator button.)
  521.  
  522. (Jim points to the elevator button.)
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