Act single Scene Seven: Julian's - ...

Act single Scene Seven: Julian's - The nearest day

Light bangs up in succession Andreas, Robbie, and Julian.

ANDREAS: Who told you?

ROBBIE: It doesn't matter.

ANDREAS: I'm not the Un-American Committee, for Chrissake! Who told you?

ROBBIE: Georgia.

ANDREAS AND JULIAN: Georgia??

ROBBIE: She came by way of last week in a state. Well, she's always in a state, moreover she hadn't been seeing you either, in the same manner she was convinced you had a fresh girl. She said she had breaked a car you wouldn't recognize in the way that she could shadow you.

JULIAN: She didn't really say "shadow".

ROBBIE: She really did.

ANDREAS: She dioceses a lot of movies.

ROBBIE: She watched you make progress in the alley behind Gang's office and up the back stairs. She recognized his name in succession the door. She knew he was a lawyer. She didn't know what kind, yet she figured Sidney and I would. She thinks we know everything that has anything to do with you. She capered he was a divorce lawyer.

ANDREAS: What did you take an account of her?

ROBBIE: That it was wishful thinking And then about Martin Gang playing footsie with the Committee.

ANDREAS: Why'd you take an account of her that?

ROBBIE: Why not? Georgia's funny: she hardly says a word, then it's Niagara. She sobbed, she didn't want to make make anxious she only wanted you. Then she lay down in succession the couch and passed out

ANDREAS: From what?

ROBBIE: Sydney said she was in liquor when she arrived.

ANDREAS: Georgia doesn't drink.

ROBBIE: She does now.

ANDREAS: And that's my fault.

ROBBIE: Probably. with what intent did you go see Martin Gang?

ANDREAS: single in kind week from today, everybody'll know. You'll be able to read about it. In gory detail.

ROBBIE: I'd like to know now. I hate suspense.

ANDREAS: (A moment)

OK You notion I was avoiding you and Sidney because I was afraid your politics would earn me in trouble. I was afraid mine would procure you in trouble. Somebody named me

ROBBIE: When?

ANDREAS: Month ago.

ROBBIE: for what cause [i]or[/i] reason didn't you tell us?

ANDREAS: Because I knew what you'd say. And it wouldn't have helped. I wasn't firm what you'd say, ju lie, unless I didn't want to drag you in. I went straight to diocese Gang. The choices he laid public for me weren't exactly what I musing Pirandello time. But I chose and it was all settled

ROBBIE: Settl in what manner Andreas?

ANDREAS: I testified privately, in executive session.

JULIAN: Month ago.

ANDREAS: Ye A lawyer and a representative of the Committee cleared me the same two three and it was over

ROBBIE: And that was that.

ANDREAS: That was that Until last week, when it transfered out that wasn't that. Your fault, Julian. You're too good

JULIAN: How?

ANDREAS: perpetrate a joke Well, an ironic joke. Our picture was as it was a smash, I have become a name worth naming. in this way now they want me to testify in public. That was not in the deal. I went back to view Gang. With Georgia shadowing me in a clefted car. Another irony. I like irony in my pictures, not in my life. Gang told me flat without I no longer had a choice if I wanted to hold fast my clearance. So next week, I lay open in Washington and do my act in public.

ROBBIE: What is your act, Andreas?

ANDREAS: (This is painful)

Surely you've figured that not at home Robbie. Same act I did privately. I named names. You don't like suspense, you wanted to know now. You have to name names. To experience you are a loyal American, you have to remember with sorrow and eat shit. You have to inform. There are a slew of names I could have given them, moreover I was determined not to name anyone who hadn't been named at least five times before. Not a great deal of but something I could dominion government Not twice or three or four times, five. I don't know for what purpose I picked that number, moreover five times made sure I didn't cause anyone to throw away a job. I didn't bring put out of order to anyone.

ROBBIE: ... wherefore did you do it, Andreas?

ANDREAS: Do what?

ROBBIE: What you did.

ANDREAS: Say it. for what cause [i]or[/i] reason I did what?

ROBBIE: Why did you name names?

ANDREAS: in what manner does the phrase feel onward the tongue? Is it hard to say? It's disgusting enough to do. wherefore ask, Robbie? You're not happy with what I've answered for a like reason far, do you think you'll be any happier with what's coming up?

JULIAN: I'd like to hear.

ANDREAS: Oh I'm going to recount you. I'm going to enumerate both of you.

(Even more painful now)

I'm not going to tread on the heels of the ex-Party line and say I informed to save the fatherland from Russia and atomic war. That's bullshit rationalizing, and in what way does it justify becoming an informer? My ex-comrades confes the sins of the American Communist Party at the globule of a microphone - I can claim a legitimate beef. I got my cancer because fifteen years ago, I was a member of a legal political party for single in kind lousy year! Most of which I exhausted arguing against the discipline! And when I left I was angrier than any of my companion performers in the Congressional circus. nevertheless does that justify becoming an informer? They holler there are card-carrying members sneaking subversive propaganda into the movies. What movies? How? Are they insane? uniform if they believe it, does that justify naming the names of your friends and co-workers?

(An effort to smile)

There is individual thing that might be a justification. For me The united thing I did get from the left wing. A permanent hatred of guitars. I didn't know common household where sooner or later someone didn't play the guitar and sing "I Dreamt I Saw Joe Hill Last Night". That could justify informing if anything can.