Deborah Klayman Radio Drama
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (General) North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn) Scottish (General)Transcript
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See me? If I could grow six inches and be as fat as I am now, I’d be really tall and thin. I could stretch out all the fat on my legs till they were long and slender, and I’d go to swanky bars and smoke menthol cigarettes. And I'd wrap my new legs round cocktail stools, and I’d smooth myself all over with my delicate hands. And I’d have my hair up, so you could see my neck / Right after I became an airline stewardess, a friend of mine who has a garden apartment gave me a cocoon for my bedroom. He collects things like that - insects and caterpillars and all that. It was attached to a twig, and he said one morning I'd wake up to a beautiful butterfly in my bedroom when it hatched. He told me that when they come out, they're soaking wet. And there's a drop of blood there, too, in’t that fascinating? But within an hour they dry off and they begin to fly. I had a cat the, but he said, just put the cocoon somewhere where the cat couldn’t get at it. / Ay, to see now how a jest shall come about. I warrant and I should live a thousand years I never shalt forget it. “Wilt thou not Jule?”, quoth he, and pretty fool it stinted and said, “Ay”. / By the time they get to me, the crew is grumpy because it's late and they’re non union and they don't get paid extra for overtime. The lead actors gone. He's got a shrink appointment and I'm alone and I'm staring at this piece of tape stuck to a stand next to the camera, and the director says, okay, let's try it a few times without cutting and show me a few different colours. “I didn't ask for the anal probe. I didn't ask for the anal probe. I didn't ask for the anal probe”. That was it. / Suddenly, in that special moment, everything became clear and I saw a reason. A mission like a beacon in the darkness, a guiding star in the night. And I just looked at them through the pain and the tears and the anguish, and I said, Take me back to domestic science.