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0 1 SONGS AND SCENES ACT ONE Scene One. Broadview Hotel Room “Colored Pencils” *.............................Young Sybil “Where Am I?” * ................... Sybil and Doctor Wilbur Scene Two. Doctor Wilbur’s Office, Omaha “Normal” .............................................Sybil Scene Three. Sybil’s Home/Doctor Wilbur’s Office “Two Roads” ..................Wilbur, Hattie, Doctor Wilbur Scene Four. Teddy’s Apartment, New York “New York Is Freedom” ......................Teddy and Sybil Scene Five. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “The Other Girl.......................................Sybil Scene Six. Street. Scene Seven. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “C’est Une Bonne Idee” * ...........Sybil and Doctor Wilbur Scene Eight. Doctor Wilbur’s Office Scene Nine. Apartment “Sybil” *..........................Doctor Wilbur and Selves Scene Ten. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “What Am I?” .......................Doctor Wilbur and Sybil “Nancy Lou” .....................................Sybil “Sid” ...........................................Sybil “Mary” ..........................................Sybil “Vanessa and Marjorie” ..........................Sybil Scene Eleven. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “Willow Corners” ..........................Hattie and Girls Scene Twelve. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “Sybil Always Made Us Feel the Pain” *.......Sybil, Hattie, Selves ACT TWO Scene One. Apartment. “Who Am I?”*..........................................Sybil 2 Scene Two. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “Multiplication” ..............Doctor Wilbur, Sybil, Selves “Doctor Wilbur”* .............................Doctor Wilbur Scene Three. Restaurant. “Two Roads” (reprise.)........................Doctor Wilbur Scene Four. Apartment “I Watch You” ........................................Teddy Scene Five. In One Scene Six. Hotel Room “Where Am I?” (reprise) ..............................Sybil “I Hate Her.” ........................................Sybil Scene Seven. Apartment Scene Eight. St Mary’s Hospital 1926 “Sybil Always Made Us Feel the Pain” (reprise) ...........................................Sybil and Selves “Take Control” *....................Doctor Wilbur and Sybil Scene Nine. Doctor Wilbur’s Office “Blue is the Color of Love” *..............Sybil and Selves * Denotes song on recording. 3 ACT ONE, Scene One. BLACK. YOUNG SYBIL sits in a spot CENTER, drawing on a pad. YOUNG SYBIL MY PENCILS COME IN MANY DIFFERENT COLORS. I KEEP THEM ALL IN ORDER IN THIS PILE. ORANGE, RED AND GREEN, RED-ORANGE TOO.. WHERE’S MY BLUE? MAMA DOESN’T LIKE IT WHEN I COLOR. IF I TOLD HER BLUE WAS MSSING SHE‘D JUST SMILE. MAMA JUST WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO TO FIND MY BLUE. GRAMMA WOULD KNOW BUT GRAMMA’S UNDERGROUND. AND PAPA IS AT WORK AND MAMA WARNS DON’T MAKE A SOUND--! GRAMMA USED TO LOVE MY COLORED PENCILS. MY PILE, SHE’D SAY, IS ONE BIG RAINBOW HUE. I MISS MY GRAMMA I WANT MY-- HATTIE (Screams from OFF.) Sybil! (A shock of thunder! YOUNG SYBIL looks out, terrified and the stage goes BLACK. The SOUND of rain. A phone is heard RINGING. A LIGHT hits a phone on a table. DOCTOR WILBUR APPEARS and picks up the phone.) 4 DOCTOR WILBUR Hello? (SYBIL appears, hair wet.) SYBIL (Into the phone.) Doctor Wilbur? Do you--is--Oh, Doctor Wilbur.. DOCTOR WILBUR Sybil? Sybil, where are you? You missed your appointment. I was worried. SYBIL I’m calling...I’m in a phone booth. DOCTOR WILBUR A phone booth? Where? SYBIL It happened again, Doctor Wilbur. I’m so sorry. I’m so ashamed. DOCTOR WILBUR Sybil? SYBIL It’s raining. I’m so cold... DOCTOR WILBUR Raining? What do you mean? It’s perfectly dry--. Oh. Oh. Sybil? Sybil. Are you still in New York? SYBIL (Breaking down.) I don’t know! I don’t know! DOCTOR WILBUR Please, Sybil. Try to relax... WHERE ARE YOU? YOU HAVE TO THINK. JUST TRY TO CATCH YOUR BREATH.. PLEASE DON’T DISSOLVE IN PANIC. KEEP CALM OR CATCH YOUR DEATH.. 5 SYBIL I always promise myself it won’t happen again! How many times have I started over? DOCTOR WILBUR Then perhaps stop trying, dear-girl. Why start over? Why not go on from where you are? SYBIL (Letting the sobs come.) But I never know where I am... WHERE AM I? HOW DO I COPE WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING INSIDE? IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE THAT MAKES IT VERY HARD TO HIDE. AND I REALLY WANT TO HIDE. BECAUSE PLACES COME THEN PLACES GO, THEN COME, THEN GO AWAY.. I’M IN A PARK THEN I’M ON A BUS THEN I’M AT A MATINEE! WHERE’S MY DAY? WHERE DID IT FLY? WHERE AM I? What day is it? What is today? DOCTOR WILBUR (After a pause.) Its Saturday, Sybil. February Fifth. (SYBIL reacts, tries to hold back sobs.) Sybil..? SYBIL Five days! I’ve lost five days. 6 SYBIL WHERE AM I? WHEN DID I COME? QUESTIONS TIME NOW WON’T ALLOW. AND YET, NOW I MUST REMEMBER! BUT I‘VE NEVER FATHOMED ‘NOW’. PLEASE DOCTOR--SHOW ME HOW! CAUSE IT SNEAKS AWAY AND SNEAKS AWAY THEN SNEAKS AWAY AGAIN. IT’S EIGHT O’CLOCK-- BUT WHERE’S NINE O’CLOCK? BECAUSE SUDDENLY IT’S TEN! WHERE‘S MY WHEN? WHERE DID IT FLY? WHERE AM I? DOCTOR WILBUR Sybil. Do you see anything that might identify your surroundings? A building? A street sign? SYBIL It’s raining too hard, I can’t—wait. Wait. Lombard Street. I see a sign for Lombard Street. DOCTOR WILBUR Good. Now. You’ve been away for a number of days. Check to see if you have key. Do you have a purse with you? SYBIL (Shakes her head.) No. No. (Reaches into a pocket pulls out a key.) Yes! A key. To the Broadwood Hotel. On Broad Street. I have a key! DOCTOR WILBUR (Sighs.) Okay. Good. You’re in Philadelphia. Sybil, go back to the Broadwood. Keep walking up Lombard, it’s on the corner. Stay there. I'll be on the next train. Okay? Sybil? Dear-girl? 7 SYBIL Yes. I’m so sorry. Thank you, Doctor Wilbur. Thank you... (SYBIL hangs up and DOCTOR WILBUR sits in an armchair, worried.) WHERE AM I? WHERE DO I GO WHEN THE VOICES TAKE CONTROL..? (LIGHTS dim on SYBIL, stay on DOCTOR WILBUR.) (Immediately:) 8 ACT ONE, Scene Two. 1945. DOCTOR WILBUR'S OFFICE. DOCTOR WILBUR (Rising from her chair.) I first met and treated Sybil Dorsett in Omaha, Nebraska. In the summer of 1945. (LIGHTS back on SYBIL.) SYBIL My mother says a lady doctor is un-Christian. DOCTOR WILBUR Does she? Do you feel that way? SYBIL (Shrugs.) There's a war on. DOCTOR WILBUR (SHE studies SYBIL a moment.) You know that this is a safe room, Sybil. Everything is secret here. Everything. You can trust me. (SYBIL almost looks confused.) You're twenty-two. An artist. (SYBIL nods.) You were forced to drop out of the teaching college you attend due to a quote, unquote, nervous condition? SYBIL (Gazing downward.) Yes. I'm sorry. DOCTOR WILBUR. (Smiles.) That's nothing to be ashamed of, dear-girl. (SYBIL regards HER.) Can you explain to me what happened? SYBIL (Stares at HER. Then.) I was...nervous...agitated. I couldn't concentrate. A lot of the time. Worry. Panic. I was...the school nurse, Mrs. Updyke, she sent me to a neurologist. At the Mayo Clinic. 9 DOCTOR WILBUR Who found everything to be fine. SYBIL But it wasn't. I kept getting worse. The college sent me home and told me not to return. Until I received help. DOCTOR WILBUR You have an IQ of 170. (SYBIL doesn't respond. Pause.) How has it been since you returned home? With your mother and father? (SYBIL shrugs.) Sybil? SYBIL They look at me. They're ashamed. DOCTOR WILBUR What makes you believe that they are ashamed? SYBIL They stare with...with grey faces. Grey faces mixed with brown... DOCTOR WILBUR Grey faces? Well, I'm sure they're just concerned. SYBIL No. Well, yes--I'm just...I'm an only child. Mother loves me, she does. She and father are good to me. They worry about me. Everybody worries about me. I'm not at all well. DOCTOR WILBUR At all? SYBIL But then I'm told I'm very healthy. Ever since I was a little girl. I've been sick but...not sick. DOCTOR WILBUR I see. Why do you think you would be told you are fine if you were not? SYBIL I don't know. It's confusing. Yet, still... DOCTOR WILBUR Still?
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