A sample of the genius:
Dear Stage Directions to Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof,
Because of the stock market's recent tumble, I am in a financial rut. Should I reinvest in mutual funds, or should I stay with my old stocks and wait it out?
–Financially Fazed in Florida
Dear Financially Fazed,
(Different characters enter and exit. All of them talk in excited southern accents that may only exist in my plays. Big Daddy enters. He is big and southern. He crosses upstage to his son, Brick. Big Daddy shoots everyone else on stage a look suggesting, "Get out of here. I want to talk to my son." Everyone immediately exits stage left because people are typically intimidated by a character named Big Daddy. He speaks…)
BIG DADDY (in a tone conveying that he thinks his son is a homosexual):
BRICK (in a tone knowing that his father wants to ask him if he is a homosexual):
(Curtain. End of Act II.)
THAT wasn't in my copy of the script.
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