![]() Marlene reveals that she’s had two abortions since Angie and still doesn’t want a baby. Joyce got pregnant once after taking Angie in, but miscarried, because, she claims, looking after Angie was too stressful. Joyce and her husband Frank offered to take the child because they had been married for three years and had no children of their own. The sisters continue to argue, and we learn that Marlene became pregnant with Angie at the age of seventeen, but didn’t tell anyone about it until it was too late to have an an abortion. Joyce scolds her and says “I don’t know how could leave your own child,” and Marlene responds, “You were quick enough to take her,” revealing that Angie is in fact Marlene’s biological daughter - not Joyce's. She expresses her resentment towards Marlene, who grows agitated, insisting that she had to get out of their small town. The sisters begin to argue about Marlene leaving their hometown, which Joyce views as abandonment. Marlene changes the subject, telling Joyce about her visit with their mother earlier that day. She then tells Marlene that Angie has been in the remedial class at school for the past two years. Marlene won’t tell her, but Joyce knows it’s Angie’s “exercise book” for a secret society that Angie and Kit have invented. Marlene returns and Joyce asks about Angie’s secret. Angie calls to her aunt, who goes upstairs to tuck her in. Angie says she has something secret to show Marlene first, and goes upstairs to get ready, while Marlene and Joyce begin to get drunk. Joyce says no to this and commands Angie to go to bed. Marlene plans to stay at her sister's place for the night, and Angie offers her bed. Marlene asks after Angie’s dad, and Joyce tells her that Frank moved out three years before.Īngie remembers a postcard Marlene sent her from the Grand Canyon, and goes to her room to fetch it. Angie recalls Marlene’s last visit - for Angie’s ninth birthday - with Joyce, Kit, and Angie’s Dad. Marlene proceeds to grill Joyce about people from their old neighborhood. She asks Joyce if she’s seen their mother, and Joyce says she visits the old woman every Thursday. Marlene remembers the two of them getting drunk together the night that their father died. Marlene produces a bottle of whisky from her bag, but Joyce refuses to drink. Marlene asks if Angie wants to be a teacher or nurse and work with kids, and Joyce tells her sister that Angie hasn't thought much about her future and is not clever like Marlene. Joyce comments that Angie takes care of Kit like a little sister, and that she’s good with children. Kit walks into the room unannounced, and asks Angie to come play, but Angie refuses. Angie wants to wear it, though, and Joyce relents. Joyce commands her to take it off so it won't get dirty. The two sisters bicker until Angie returns, wearing the dress Marlene gave her. Angie was clearly lying, and Joyce accuses Marlene of not knowing about Angie's antics because she never comes to visit. Marlene is confused, claiming that Angie phoned her up about two weeks earlier saying that Joyce wanted her to come. Angie goes to try on the dress, and Joyce complains that Marlene has decided to surprise them when the house is a mess and there is nothing to eat. One of the gifts is the dress that Angie puts on in Act 1. Marlene, who has not visited in a while, has brought some presents for Angie. Joyce, Angie, and Marlene are in Joyce’s kitchen and Marlene is taking presents out of bright bag while Angie eats a box of chocolates. ![]() Act 3 is set at Joyce’s home on a Sunday evening, three years earlier.
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