Cat People Page #4
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- 1982
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IRENA (cont'd)
No, no. Sit still, please.
She begins to dump the ash trays and collect the saucers and
cups. Oliver smokes contentedly. Irena carries the tray
behind the screen. Oliver snuffs out the cigarette and picks
the statue up, holding it for a moment in his hand.
IRENA (cont'd)
(coming out from behind
screen; eagerly)
Are you admiring my statue?
OLIVER:
(who does not like it at
all)
Not exactly. Who's it supposed to
be?
IRENA:
King John.
OLIVER:
King John? The Magna Carta and
stuff?
IRENA:
Oh, no. King John of Serbia. He
was a fine king. He drove the
Mamelukes out of Serbia and freed
the people.
OLIVER:
But why have this around?
IRENA:
Perhaps you have in your room a
picture of George Washington or
Abraham Lincoln?
OLIVER:
(still unconvinced)
Aren't there some better statues of
him -- some without that cat thing?
IRENA:
Yes. There are beautiful statues
of King John. There is one in
Belgrade, where his face shines
with goodness. But this statue
reminds me of my home, the little
village where I was born. This is
square.
OLIVER:
But what does it mean? Why is he
spearing that cat?
Irena turns, her back to the fireplace mantel. In her hand
is the statue of King John. Above her, to one side, the three
cats in the Goya portrait glare from the shadowed background.
IRENA:
It's not really a cat. It's
meant to represent the evil ways
into which my village once had
fallen. You see, the Mamelukes
came to Serbia long, long ago,
and they made the people slaves.
But my village was too little,
too far away in the mountains.
They left it alone. For five
hundred years my little village
was cut off from the Mother
Church. At first the people were
good and worshipped God in a true
Christian way. But, little by
little, the people changed. When
King John drove out the Mamelukes
and came to our village he found
dreadful things. The people bowed
down to Satan and said their
Masses to him. They had become
witches and were evil. King John
put some of them to the sword and
burned some of them in fires.
(pauses, drops her voice
a little)
But some --the wisest and the
most wicked -- escaped into the
mountains.
(looks at Oliver) )
Now, do you understand?
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