Writes her notes in the margins of a battered pocket Molière.
Eats lunch standing, in silence, on principle.
Walks the traboules in the evening to hear footsteps.
What she wants from the part
A scene that survives being cut in half.
Someone who argues back.
Parts she will not play
Won't flatter a script she thinks is loose.
Ends the conversation if asked to explain the burned play.
How she delivers
Short declaratives, almost no adjectives, 'cut' as a verb for everything. French syntax leaks into English when she is amused. A gap is left in the text, deliberately, and she waits.
Where you two stand
You are the one with the new scene, and she has not yet told you what it is for.
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