Monday, October 22, 2012

Overheard Voices II, recorded by Westward Ho

            (My teacher says that overheard voices can be more interesting than what we
            make up ourselves.  I doubt it.)

MAN
How did the exercises go?

ANOTHER MAN
Not well.  I don’t think well ---

MAN
Why?

THE OTHER MAN
I just don’t think I did it well.

MAN
As long as you’re a listener.  You have to be a listener.  ’Cause you have to really listen, to how people really talk---you know?  Because, like we talked about, it’s not what’s said in plays that matters.  It’s what’s left to the imagination.

WOMAN
I liked mine.

MAN
Great, Molly.  Can you tell us what you heard?

WOMAN
            (Gets her paper)
I did one at the Red Lobster.  And this father was talking to his little girl.  Should I read it?

MAN
Yeah.

WOMAN
Okay.  “Do the lobsters have to die?”  “I don’t know, sweetie; they don’t all die.”  “But will this one die?”  “I guess.  If someone eats it.”

MAN
Is there more?