Shirley jacksons the lottery script
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Edited The Lottery Script
Edited The Lottery Script
Series: NBC Presents: Short
Story MRS. SUMMERS:
Show: The Lottery Floyd Summers, you get up out o' that bed!
Date: Mar 14 MR. SUMMERS:
CAST:
Ohhh, tain't seven yet.
ANNOUNCER
NARRATOR
FLOYD SUMMERS, store owner, runs the Lottery MRS. SUMMERS:
MRS. SUMMERS, his wife
MRS. AGNES DELACROIX Of course it ain't.
DICKY DELACROIX, her son
BILL HUTCHINSON, father MR. SUMMERS:
TESSIE HUTCHINSON, mother
DAVY HUTCHINSON, their young son (GROANS)
OLD MAN WARNER, grandsire
LAURA, his granddaughter
MRS. SUMMERS:
SCHOOLMASTER, John Gunderson
MR. MARTIN
MAN Now you get up, you hear? It's Lottery Day!
MR. GRAVES, postmaster
MRS. MARTIN MUSIC:
MRS. DUNBAR
MRS. GRAVES UP FOR A TRANSITION THEN UNDER--
ANNOUNCER: MRS. DELACROIX:
NBC PRESENTS SHORT STORY. Tonight, Shirley Jackson. Now, Dicky, you eat your cereal.
MUSIC: DICKY:
FANFARE I don't want no more, Ma.
ANNOUNCER: MRS. DELACROIX:
She's novelist and short story writer, master of the sunny mood You eat up your cereal 'cause you ain't gonna have nothing but
that turns to terror in a single sentence. But her statements are sandwiches till supper time.
not dark for the sake of darkness; rather for the bitter truth
that's in them. Shirley Jackson. Tonight, one of the most D
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Mrs. Hutchinson craned her neck to see through the crowd and found her husband and children standing near the front. She tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a farewell and began to make her way through the crowd. The people separated good-humoredly to let her through; two or three people said, in voices just loud enough to be heard across the crowd, “Here comes your Mrs., Hutchinson,” and “Bill, she made it after all.” Mrs. Hutchinson reached her husband, and Mr. Summers, who had been waiting, said cheerfully, “Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie.” Mrs. Hutchinson said, grinning, “Wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you, Joe?,” and soft laughter ran through the crowd as the people stirred back into position after Mrs. Hutchinson’s arrival.
“Well, now,” Mr. Summers said soberly, “guess we better get started, get this over with, so’s we can go back to work. Anybody ain’t here?”
“Dunbar,” several people said. “Dunbar, Dunbar.”
Mr. Summers consulted his list. “Clyde Dunbar,” he said. “That’s right. He’s broke his leg, hasn’t he? Who’s drawing for him?”
“Me, I guess,” a woman said, and Mr. Summers turned to look at her. “Wife draws for her husband,” Mr. Summers said. “Don’t you have a grown boy to do it for you, Janey?” Although Mr. S