Rispetto. You don’t understand. Corragio, Josefina. I’ll do worse. Television writing credits include: Revolution, Terra Nova, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008 Edgar Award Nominee). PALMIERIWhat did she want? HEARSTYou wops and your mothers. Questa ragazza e a Strega. But, in this country it’s different. Tell my how the dead can speak. I asked you about my mama. With Concetta keeping the boys from the neighborhood away. None of your people will be there. He was just a kid.I tell you what he do. I will never. (Looking over to the jury) She told me to place 2 flower pots filled with lilies next to a statue of Saint Anthony by my window at midnight. PALMIERIDid you tell anyone about the voices?JOSEFINAI told my aunt Maria. HEARSTNot at all. JOSEFINAYou’re going to do what you want, whether I say yes or no. Remaining Time - Fullscreen Up Next. TERRANOVAI will think about it. TERRANOVANever. (pos1) She then moves the tools down in a circular manner, each tool tracing a separate crescent (Pos 2) .She then brings both tools together, crossed, up above her head. JOSEFINAWhat is it that he tells you? DIXNo. DOROTHY DIX- Reporter hired by Hearst to play up the female angle. What has she done? JOSEFINASi, Mamma. TERRANOVAPuttana. HEARSTTell that to the gang bosses. She says her uncle was an animal, that her aunt was his accomplice in their depravity. JOSEFINAThat’s heaven. HEARSTReally. But I was not willing. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Give it to me. CONCETTAYou think its something to laugh about. (She crosses herself) PALMIERIJosefina, may I ask you a question? No. MARIACarmine! JOSEFINAI can tell this by seeing into you. With her mother’s consent. You’re an Italian, no. But back to Josefina. PALMIERIWhen did you stop going to church? I will confess you. JOSEFINANo? PULLAREWho gave you that? TERRANOVAAnd tomorrow I go to work, you stay here. My Uncle and Aunt would not let me go. TERRANOVAMaybe. DIXBut if those people did all that to her, excuse me. Whispering in Italian. Terra Nova was given a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and staged at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1977 and went on to win an Obie Award. As the narratives moves backwards and forwards in time, a classical feel develops as the figure of Roald Amundsen functions similarly to a Greek chorus, appearing to interrogate Scott as the tragic figure. {Yelling again over to him offstage} Then it will be too late to say you’re sorry.Josefina let me make something for you to eat. But what could I do? PALMIERIYou can tell this from looking at me? Giuseppe, my uncle and aunt, made me do things when I was a little girl.They made me do shameful things.I would pray every night that God would take me away from them.I would pray for God to take me to heaven while I was asleep so I would not be woken up in the middle of the night by my aunt and taken into his bed.They made me sleep in his bed and I, I, I’m so ashamed of myself. Understand? JOSEFINAYes . I was too young, and God help me I was afraid. I created mine using an editor SL provided. HEARSTI’m sure they deserved it. (3x times.) But do you think you can ever ever be free? JOSEFINAWhat kind of people can’t understand? And here in America. Josefina slowly walks out as if nothing happened. HEARSTYou mean Miss Dix, the reporter. PALMIERIThis is true. (She comes over to both Maria and Carmine and kisses them on both cheeks) Me and your Uncle were just leaving. Why are you crying like a baby? PALMIERIThat defiance is why she's alive, Hearst. I grant you that for a girl of Josefina’s class, life anywhere is precarious. Will you still be working in the city tomorrow? You don’t think I know that you can’t decide what to think in your heart about what I have done. ACT 1At rise, PALMIERI and HEARST are in Hearst's office.HEARSTSo Palmieri, how are you planning to plead? Please sit. What do they give her? As with all my script reviews you must bear in mind that things are in creative flux until the show is broadcast. HEARSTYes. She would bring me to him. I will be here, by your side, every night, every night until you join me. PALMIERIAnd you know this because your Aunt Concetta or Uncle took you to see a Doctor? You show him respect. HEARSTBut not mad enough to call a mistrial. CONCETTAGuiseppe, please, in America mio nome is (e) Connie.No more Senora Concetta Reggio in the Bronx. PALMIERIWhether I doubt it or not isn’t the issue. TERRANOVAYou have disgraced me and my family. I have no need of words to know who is kind and who is cruel. And yet makes so much money. Listen and learn. The girl has suffered enough. Dom no? JOSEFINAI never lied. She’s too smart for that. An extraordinarily inventive play, first presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and then produced to national acclaim at the renowned Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles. EXIT HEARST AND PALMIERISPOT ON JOSEFINA who performs the pagan gesture of power in her cell. Duration / Current Time . His plays have been read and workshopped at Center Theatre Group, Cape Cod Theatre Project, MCC, Trinity Repertory Company, DR2 Theatre, and the Black Dahlia Theatre. Genre: Drama. JOSEFINAI got my food after the others had eaten. Sometimes the voices were so loud it would make me fall down to my knees and I would pray for it to stop. You can make a new family. Dealing with the ill-fated Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott, the play employs an ingenious free-form construction to capture the sweep—and personalities—crucial to this compelling study of heroism in the face of bitter failure. Reggio came to me one day and said that Guiseppe had come to him and wanted to marry me. JOSEFINATo my grave. HEARSTJosefina, listen to me. What’s unbelievable is that she was right. After which I went home with Guiseppe. That’s a good. Who are these voices? Now sit down. Don’t let it keep going on.Don’t let me drown in these voices. PALMIERIHow did you come to live with them? FOREMANYes you’re Honor we have. The matron restrains her) ALIENISTGuinea Slut. Sure, you deserve her. PALMIERIYour family is rich, you go to the best schools, you have everything. HEARSTTo sell papers. For India, this is the third high-level visit to Nepal in the current year, the first being in (21-22 October) with Chief of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Samant Goel and the second being the visit of Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army, M.M. MARIASure. JOSEFINADid she know? PALMIERIWhat happen that night at the Reggios JOSEFINAMy Uncle treated me the same way as before. Is it Concetta? PALMIERIWhat happened next? PALMIERIWell Josefina, I, too, am an instrument of God, then, and I must do the work he has given me. JOSEFINA(To herself)What was I supposed to do? That’s the reality of what she’s facing. Wants on a you mind? They no good enough for her. JOSEFINAI spent long years with my tormentors. TERRANOVAby Pamela Monk and Dennis Loiacono TERRANOVA-CharactersJOSEFINA TERRANOVA- 17 Year old Sicilian beauty, on trial for the stabbing deaths of Concetta and Gaetano ReggioJOHN PALMIERI- Italian immigrant, former Federal judge, Josefina's defense lawyerWILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST- Bankrolls Josefina's defense. What else could I want? Where a man’s prosperity is limited only by his own talent, not his forbears PALMIERIOnly from the mouth of the son of a millionaire. Just like getting ride of an old horse you get tried of riding.JOSEFINA remains impassiveIs it true God spoke to you? REGGIODid you do something wrong? Everything they wanted I had.DIXAnd yet, it wasn't right what they did.JOSEFINAIt wasn't right because they never asked. Closes it behind them, waits for a moment by the door. But here in the US of A, there are options that exist nowhere else. PALMIERIAll right then, Josefina. D.A.Your Honor if I may? She knows what she did and she’s glad she did it. You are ugly. 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