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A
pretty schoolgirl of about 13-14 – faintly old-fashioned,
and wearing a blazer and carrying
a sand-bucket – enters U/S – quickly followed S/L
by an also faintly old fashioned young man
in his early thirties. He has a quality about his look and dress
that is reminiscent of a dance
band vocalist/entertainer of the 1930s. We shall call him the
‘Gigolo’.
On
seeing the Schoolgirl coming to play on the deserted beach, everyone
courteously
disappears before she sees them, the Pierette however does not
move until the Gigolo
enters, when she silently moves to a position C/S and sits quietly
listening but not watching.
The
Schoolgirl has knelt on the sand L/C happily and is approached
by the Gigolo who is very
charming and polite to her. He sits next to her and a conversation
develops in which he asks
her age and what she would like to be when she is grown up.
He
discovers that her dream is to be an actress, and tells her that
he is in the world of
entertainment and can help her. During this conversation, he has
given her great
encouragement, removing the ribbons in her hair and letting it
fall loose on her shoulders –
fondling it delicately with his hands and commenting on her rare
beauty. This scene needs to
be filled with all sorts of ambiguities and not a clear-cut case
of corrupt seediness and
innocence.
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