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never have done? (
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.) Will you never have done … revolving it all? (
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.) It? (
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.) It all. (
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.) In your poor mind. (
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.) It all. (
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.) It all.
    Pause. Fade out on strip. All in darkness.
    Pause.
    Chime even a little fainter still. Pause for echoes. Fade up to even a little less still on strip. No trace of May. Hold fifteen seconds. Fade out.
    Curtain.

Ghost Trio
A Television Play

    Ghost Trio
was first taped for television by the BBC in October, 1976, directed by D. McWhinnie. It will be taped again by the Süd-Deutscher Rundfunk in May, 1977, directed by Samuel Beckett, with Klaus Herm as F.
    Female Voice (V)
    Male Figure (F)
    I. Pre-action.
    II. Action.
    III. Re-action.

    Room: 6 m. × 5 m.
    1. Door.
    2. Window.
    3. Mirror.
    4. Pallet.
    5. F seated by door.
    6. F at window.
    7. F at head of pallet.
    A Position general view.
    B ″medium shot.
    C ″near shot of 5 and 1, 6 and 2, 7 and 3.
I
    1.
Fade up to general view from A. 10″.
    2. V: Good-evening. Mine is a faint voice. Kindly tune accordingly. (
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.) Good-evening. Mine is a faint voice. Kindly tune accordingly. (
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.) It will not be raised, nor lowered, whatever happens. (
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.) Look. (
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.) The familiar chamber. (
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.) At the far end a window. (
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.) On the right the indispensable door. (
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.) On the left, against the wall, some kind of pallet. (
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.) The light: faint, omnipresent. No visible source. As if all luminous. Faintly luminous. No shadow. (
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.) No shadow. Colour: none. All grey. Shades of grey. (
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.) The colour grey if you wish, shades of the colour grey. (
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.) Forgive my stating the obvious. (
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.) Keep that sound down. (
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.) Now look closer. (
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.) Floor.
    3.
Cut to close-up of floor. Smooth grey rectangle 0.70 m. x 1.50 m. 5″.
    4. V: Dust. (
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.) Having seen that specimen of floor you have seen it all. Wall.
    5.
Cut to close-up of wall. Smooth grey rectangle 0.70 m. x 1.50 m. 5″
.
    6. V: Dust.
    7.
Move to second close-up of wall. Identical. 5”
.
    8. V: Knowing this, the kind of floor, the kind of wall, look again.
    9.
Cut to general view from A. 5″.
    10. V: Door.
    11.
Cut to close-up of whole door. Smooth grey rectangle 0.70 m. x 2 m. Imperceptibly ajar. No knob. Faint music. 5″.
    12. V: Window.
    13.
Cut to close-up of whole window. Plain sheet of glass 0.70 m. x 1.50 m. Imperceptibly ajar. No knob. 5″.
    14. V: Pallet.
    15.
Cut to close-up from above of whole pallet. 0. 70 m. x 2 m. Grey sheet. Grey rectangular pillow at window end. 5″
.
    16. V: Knowing all this, the kind of pallet—
    17.
Close-up of whole pallet continued. 5″
.
    18. V: The kind of window—
    19.
Cut to close-up of whole window. 5″
.
    20. V: The kind of door—
    21.
Cut to close-up of whole door. Faint music. 5″
.
    22. V: The kind of wall—
    23.
Cut to close-up of wall as before. 5″
.
    24. V: The kind of floor.
    25.
Cut to close-up of floor as before. 5″
.
    26. V: Look again.
    27.
Cut to general view. 5″
.
    28. V: Sole sign of life a seated figure.
    30.
Move in slowly from A to B whence medium shot of
F
and door.
F
is seated on a stool, bowed forward, face hidden, clutching with both hands a small cassette not identifiable as such at this range. Faint music. 5″.
    31.
Move in from B to C whence near shot of
F
and door. Cassette now identifiable. Music slightly louder. 5″.
    32.
Move in from C to close-up of head, hands, cassette. Clutching hands, head bowed, face hidden. Music slightly louder.
5”.
    33.
Move slowly back to A via C and B (no stops). Music progressively fainter till at level of B it ceases to be heard.
    34.
General view from A. 5″
.
II
    All from A except 25-28.
    1. V: He will now think he hears her.
    2. F
raises head sharply, turns still crouched to door, fleeting face, tense pose. 5″
.
    3. V: No one.
    4. F relapses into opening pose, bowed over