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Luca
Flo
Stanley
Stanley: Don’t sit there
Luca: Where?
Stanley: Where you’re hovering, don’t sit down there.
Luca: I was getting up.
Stanley: What?
Luca: I was getting up, not sitting down.
Flo: What time is it?
Stanley: Look at the clocktower (He gestures)
Luca: Its six thirty
Stanley: Don’t sit there.
Luca: I was just getting up.
Flo: Is it really so late?
Stanley: Look at the clocktower, tell me.
Flo: It says five thirty
Stanley: Then that’s the time.
Luca: I think its off.
Stanley: Its not off it’s a clocktower, it’s the biggest. Its bigger than your watch.
Flo: I guess I can still wait then.
Stanley: You want a drink?
Luca: Don’t give her anything strong
Stanley: Do you want something to drink?
Luca: I don’t, but she might. Just don’t give her anything strong.
Flo: Tea, I think, maybe with some honey, lemon, something.
Stanley: You should sit down.
Luca: Don’t put anything strong in her tea.
Flo: Thanks.
Stanley: Let her sit down, come over by the bar.
Luca: Can I get a water?
Stanley: You weren’t thirsty.
Luca: I am now, can I get some water, or gin, if you have it, gin with a lot of ice.
Flo: Not too much. We have to leave soon.
Luca: We have an hour.
Flo: Its less than that now. We have forty minutes.
Luca: I’ll be fine, it will still take them a while to check you in. Last time took twenty minutes. You remember last time?
Stanley: We don’t have gin.
Luca: Vermouth? Do you have Vermouth?
Flo: You don’t have to drink.
Luca: Or maybe just a tea.
Stanley: We have Vermouth.
Flo: You don’t have to.
Luca: I’ll have some of that then. A lot of ice.
(Beat)
Flo: What time is it?
Luca: Not time yet, look at the clocktower.
Flo: I don’t think its right.
Stanley: I’ll put a clock in soon.
Flo: When?
Stanley: The next time you come in, one will be hanging.
Luca: We have time.
(Beat)
Stanley: I don’t see you two come in much anymore.
Luca: Its because you don’t have any gin.
Stanley: That so?
Luca: You don’t have any.
Stanley: We have Vermouth.
Luca: I know
Flo: We’ve been busy.
Stanley: She doesn’t drink anymore?
Luca: She doesn’t.
Flo: We’ve been too busy to come in.
Luca: Her father lost the business.
Stanley: That so?
Luca: You haven’t seen him?
Flo: He hasn’t been out much, mother won’t let him.
Luca: She’s been stuck watching him. We never go out.
Stanley: I see.
Flo: I don’t mind it.
(Beat)
Stanley: Another?
Luca: I think that’s enough.
Flo: I haven’t finished.
Luca: I think its time to go.
Flo: We have time.
Stanley: We still have Vermouth.
Luca: It would be better if you had gin.
Flo: You don’t have to drink.
Luca: Then we have to go.
Stanley: I could stay open, later, when you are done.
Flo: That would be nice.
Luca: We wouldn’t have time.
Stanley: It wouldn’t be trouble. It doesn’t get busy much.
(Beat)
Luca: You want to?
Flo: If it isn’t trouble.
Stanley: It wouldn’t. It doesn’t get busy much.
Luca: We’ll see. If we have time.
Flo: Do we have to leave now?
Luca: I believe so.
(Flo gets up and goes to Luca, he pushes away his glass to Stanley)
Stanley: We’ll be open.
(Luca and Flo leave Stanley cleans Luca’s glass, then goes to the table and gets the cup Flo had left cleans it. Pause. Stanley checks the clocktower through the window.)
Stanley: Six.
Scene two
(Stanley by himself in the café, the shades are still open. There are a few customers far away from the counter. He bends low on the counter to look at the clocktower. He can’t make out the numbers and rounds the counter and closes the shades.)
Stanley: Last call
Scene Three
(Luca sits in the café, where Flo had sat before, far from the counter. He is alone)
(Pause)
Luca: It’s too damn hot.
(Stanley emerges from a backroom, notices Luca, stands behind the counter.)
Luca: You been outside?
Stanley: It’s been busy here.
Luca: It’s hot.
Stanley: That so?
Luca: I couldn’t stay in the waiting. There’s no cool air, they don’t open any windows.
Stanley: Are you alone?
Luca: She had to go in early. I couldn’t stay, it was too hot.
Stanley: You left her alone.
Luca: There were plenty of people waiting with her. She will have company.
(Beat)
Luca: I want something to drink.
Stanley: That so?
Luca: It is. Do you have gin?
Stanley: Gin makes you sweat.
Luca: I don’t mind sweating if I’m not hot.
Stanley: We don’t have gin.
Luca:(mocking) that so?
Stanley: We still have vermouth.
Luca: I didn’t ask for that. Just give me something cold.
(Stanley pours water into a glass, crushes a lime wedge and throws the lime rind in. He sets it on the counter, not going to Luca)
Stanley: She goes in earlier now?
Luca: They have to do more things now. I don’t interfere.
Stanley: You leave her alone.
Luca: It isn’t bad, she’s a big girl.
Stanley: That so?
(Beat. Luca stands and goes to the counter. He picks up the glass and finishes it quickly.)
Luca: Something stronger, please.
Stanley: It will make you sweat.
Luca: I don’t care. Vermouth, to here. As much as you can fill it with.
(Stanley makes the drink.)
Stanley: When does she get out?
Luca: Later, (He leans to look at the clocktower) a few drinks more.
Stanley: How’s her father?
Luca: Hmm?
Stanley: How is he doing?
Luca: He walks around their house a lot, doesn’t sit still. He talks on the phone a lot, about her. He worries even more than she does. I don’t know. I don’t interfere.
Stanley: That so?
(Luca eyes him, then down at his drink. He takes a long drink.)
Luca: Don’t you have a family.
Stanley: I do.
Luca: Don’t you have a father?
Stanley: I don’t.
(beat)
Stanley: I have brothers, and two sisters. I’m not the oldest. I bought this place myself. I sleep right up there.
Luca: Do you see them often.
Stanley: You can never see family enough. That’s the problem.
Luca: I think I’ve seen them all enough.
Stanley: That so?
(Luca eyes him again, then finishes his drink, taking a mouthful of ice and crushing it in his teeth. He bends down to look at the clocktower, then points to the drink)
Luca: Another, more this time. You can fit more ice in there.
Stanley: The ice will hurt your stomach.
Luca: I’m beginning to think you don’t like me.
Stanley: I hate to see a man in pain.
Luca: Is that all?
Stanley: I’m running out of ice.
Luca: You have enough for another?
Stanley: Yes
Luca: And enough Vermouth?
Stanley: More than enough.
Luca: Than I want you to make me one.
(Stanley makes the drink, beat, Luca takes a large drink.)
Stanley: You didn’t pay yesterday.
Luca: hmm?
Stanley: You walked out on the bill.
Luca: Oh.
Stanley: I was going to buy a clock to put up, for her. Put I didn’t have enough. Didn’t have enough for the Gin either.
Luca: I see.
Stanley: I’d like to put the clock in, so people don’t have to bend down to look at the clocktower.
Luca: That makes sense.
(beat, Luca finishes the drink, fishes the lime rind out of the drink and chews on it. He fishes in his pockets and pulls out some bills, lays them on the counter.)
Stanley: That’s enough for today and yesterday.
Luca: Enough for the Gin?
Stanley: Not enough for the clock.
Luca: I don’t mind bending down.
(Luca spits the lime rind into a napkin and takes a mouthful of ice to replace it. He moves away from the counter.)
Stanley: Is she ready to leave?
(Luca turns with his mouth full of ice and points to the clocktower as he heads out the door. Stanley watches him go and then bends low to look up at the clock face. )
Stanley: four-fifteen. It is earlier.
(Stanley cleans the glass, and collects the bills into a neat pile and slips them into his pockets.)
Scene Four.
(Its earlier in the day then any of the other scenes. Stanley walks in through the front, taking off a jacket and hat and lays them on the counter. He sets down an ornate wooden clock on the counter and looks at it for a moment. He walks through the side door and can be heard climbing stairs. A beat and he comes back down with a hammer and a single nail in his teeth. He walks to the table Flo had sat in days before and stands on a chair. He drives the nail into the wall and goes back to the clock. He picks it up from the counter then goes back to the table and sets it on the driven nail. It will not stay straight. After a moments attempt to fix it he lets it be off, then stands back and goes to the counter and sets all of his belongings behind it.)
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