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Posted: 1/23/09 at 5:48pm
I posted this on another thread, but bear with me.
Near the end of the play, Seavering asks Jessie, "Are you white?" I imagine it gets a laugh.
And then it goes on to reveal that Jessie once went to France, where she was thought to be a "Basque." She decided to go along with it, but claims that she is, inside, truly black.
And then Seavering tells her that, because of this (he read this in one of the pages from the "future fax"), she will die in ten years: the authorities will find her dead on the floor, shriveled, and with a needle in her arm that no one can get out.
I have searched, and searched, and searched, and now I'm desperate: WHAT EXACTLY DID JESSIE DO? Did she dye herself white? Did she dye herself black? Is she DELUSIONAL? WHAT'S GOING ON?!
Near the end of the play, Seavering asks Jessie, "Are you white?" I imagine it gets a laugh.
And then it goes on to reveal that Jessie once went to France, where she was thought to be a "Basque." She decided to go along with it, but claims that she is, inside, truly black.
And then Seavering tells her that, because of this (he read this in one of the pages from the "future fax"), she will die in ten years: the authorities will find her dead on the floor, shriveled, and with a needle in her arm that no one can get out.
I have searched, and searched, and searched, and now I'm desperate: WHAT EXACTLY DID JESSIE DO? Did she dye herself white? Did she dye herself black? Is she DELUSIONAL? WHAT'S GOING ON?!
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
