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26 Cards in this Set
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GEORGE: Good heavens, how awful. Who's Eddie?
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Eddie. Edwin. You have to go on for him.
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GEORGE: I've never heard of Checkmate.
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George, get into costume. We have fifteen minutes.
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GEORGE: But where is the dressing room?
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George, you're not amusing. It's that way. And give me those. I'll soak them for you.
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SARAH: I've brought you a custard, Thomas.
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Mother's brought you some custard, father.
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GEORGE: Oh my gosh, I've got to get out of here.
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He's over here. And he'll never give in to the King.
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GEORGE: On for him.
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Well, he can't go on. He's been in a car accident.
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HENRY: Oh. Well if Meg knows you're here it must be all right I suppose. It's not my affair. I'm late enough already.
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Ten minutes, everybody. The call is ten minutes.
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GEORGE: Please don't soak them.
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Don't tell me my job. Now go get changed. The call is five minutes. Five minutes, everyone. Five minutes. Places.
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GEORGE: Yes, thank you.
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Oh father, if you don't give in to King Henry, they're going to cut your head off.
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GEORGE: Line! Line!
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You turn to the executioner and say, "Friend, be not afraid of your office. You send me to God."
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GEORGE: Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know how I got here.
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Oh, thank goodness your're here. I've been calling you.
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GEORGE: Yes I understand that part. But what do you mean "go on for him"?
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You play the part. Now I know you haven't had a chance to rehearse it exactly, but presumably you know your lines, and you've certainly seen it enough.
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GEORGE: I don't understand. Do I know you?
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George, we don't have time for this kind of joshing. Half-hour.
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SARAH: Did it? Did it? Did it? Did it?
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My, this balcony looks dusty. I think I'll just clean it up a little.
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GEORGE: Pardon?
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An awful thing has happened. Eddie's been in a car accident, and you'll have to go on for him.
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GEORGE: I don't understand. Do I know you?
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George, we don't have time for this kind of joshing. Half-hour.
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GEORGE: I better go home. (Takes off his pants.) Oh dear, I didn't mean to do that.
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George stop that. Go into the dressing room to change. Really, you keep this up and we'll bring you up on charges.
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GEORGE: What does he mean the executioner will play himself?
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Oh father, why have they locked you up in this dreadful dungeon, it's more than I can bear.
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GEORGE: No, no, I might. Quick, is this all about Anne Boleyn and everything?
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Yes, and you won't give in because you believe in the Catholic Church and the infallibility of the Pope and the everlasting life of the soul.
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GEORGE: . . . I think it's fine if the King marries Anne Boleyn. I just want to wake up.
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Oh don't deny God, father, just to spare our feelings. Mother and I are willing to have you dead if it's a question of principle.
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GEORGE: I don't like that line. Give me another.
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That's the line in the script, George. Say it.
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GEORGE: I don't want to.
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Say it.
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GEORGE: Friend be not afraid of your office. You send me . . . Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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That's not the line.
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GEORGE: Women should be struck regularly like gongs.
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George, say the line right.
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GEORGE: . . . So perhaps I should get it over with.
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Say the proper line, George.
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SARAH: Good-bye, Hamlet.
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Good-bye, George.
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