HAROLD

This short play was first performed as part of a workshop production of King of the United States, directed by the author at Theater for the New City in May, 1972.

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EXCERPT

MAN DOCTOR: Harold, are you sick or not sick?

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HAROLD: Who?

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WOMAN DOCTOR: Patient claims illness. However there is no visible external evidence of disappearance upon casual observation....

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MAN DOCTOR (cutting off Harold, the dummy’s, foot): Foot.

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WOMAN DOCTOR (receiving it): Foot.

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MAN DOCTOR: Pending further examination in lab, normal and fit.

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WOMAN DOCTOR: Foot normal and fit.

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Published by Dramatists Play Service in Seven Short and Very Short Plays by Jean-Claude van Itallie.