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Scene 1

• The play opens in a fancy hotel in Cuba.

• Two bellboys move a coffin into a bedroom.

• The handles break off and the coffin falls to the ground.

• Madame Rosepettle scolds the bellboys.

• A third bellboy appears with a Dictaphone.

• Madame Rosepettle continues to yell at the bellboys.

• The third bellboy stands up for himself and tells Madame Rosepettle that he will not be talked to in that way.

• Madame Rosepettle continues to order the bellboys around.

• She does not want any sunlight in the room while she is in mourning.

• Madame Rosepettle gives the bellboys coins and stamps, saying they are very valuable.

• Madame Rosepettle wants to teach her son, Jonathan, that people in the service industry don't really matter.

• Jonathan stutters constantly and doesn't want to make the bellboys upset.

• Madame Rosepettle compares the wonderful treatment she got in Buenos Aires to the treatment she...

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