The Wine of Summer

A light existed in the corner

Of the room.

A small, yellow triangle of light.

Her eyes caught it, held it.

Magic they were, golden and devouring.

A decade ago, I was their willing prisoner.

A lock held my heart.

Chained. Chained.

Chained me to her.

And when, at last, I broke free, I realized the meters and miles,

how far I'd come in the wrong direction and how much further I

needed to go to ever find her again.

Ha!

Ah. Right here. Good.

Here.

Good. Now you can poise up.

I really want you to go deeper now.

Good. Right through here.

Pull you up.

Good. Feel your body.

Good. And send this energy out to each other.

Let it mix in the room and send through each other.

Good. Make some sound.

Good. You got to make sound.

A little more right here.

Good. Good. Good.

Good. And right here.

A teeny little bit back here.

Come on.

Come on. Deeper.

Go deeper.

Okay.

Uh, keep working that head.

Okay?

Good.

Good.

Into each other. Come on.

We're gonna have a good day.

Good. Good.

Bring it back here.

Excellent. Excellent.

A light existed in the corner of the room.

A small, yellow triangle of light.

Her eyes caught it, held it.

Magic they were, golden and devouring.

A decade ago, I was their willing prisoner.

A lock held my heart.

Chained. Chained.

Chained me to her.

And when, at last, I broke free, I realized the meters and miles,

how far I'd come in the wrong direction and how much further I

needed to go to ever find her again.

And what does it mean?

I don't know.

Well, what does it mean to you?

Love?

Lost love?

Are you asking me?

Because if you're asking me, then you obviously don't know.

And if you don't know, then why are you here?

You need to know Victor.

You need to learn him.

You need to understand his wants, his needs.

You need to understand where he's been and where he's going.

James, we've been working on this monologue for about three

weeks, maybe.

And to be honest with you, we haven't gotten that far.

So, what do I need to do?

I can only answer that question so many times.

You need to ask yourself.

You need to find the girl with the golden eyes, whomever she

may be, to you.

To Victor.

Maybe I'm not meant to do this.

Maybe not.

All I know is you came to my class for a reason.

I'm willing to teach you, but at some point, you have to be

willing to try.

I'm sorry.

Don't be sorry.

Just do the work.

Okay.

It's 10 to 4:00.

How about we call it a wrap?

I'll give you 10 minutes at the end of next session.

You want a cup of coffee?

Sure.

Okay. Come on.

Aah!

You will look amazing.

Why not?

Hello.

Hi!

What is all this?

Oh, this is heavy.

I'm cooking for you.

Here.

Where's Sylvia?

Serafina.

Oh, serafina.

Hello.

Hi.

Hola.

Hey.

How are you?

Fine. You?

Oh, so you think?

Good, good, good.

Can I help something?

To cook?

Do you cook?

Of course I cook.

Here.

Oh, thank you!

They're so beautiful.

Can I get you ladies some wine?

Uh, me too.

Hey.

Brit?

Hey.

What are you doing?

Why is your dad here?

Look, I don't want to talk about it.

You can't tell me that right now when you're in the middle of

moving out.

If not now, when are we gonna talk about it?

James, come on, okay?

Don't start this right now.

Is it because I quit my job?

James, go figure yourself out, okay?

'Cause I-I can't do this anymore.

Yeah, I'll be down in a sec.

So, is this it?

I'll never see you again?

You've always owned my heart.

I think you know that.

The lips.

The breath.

Eyes.

Close.

Open.

Death is the still water...

At the door.

I see you, death!

I... see... you!

You want another glass?

Yeah. Sure.

What is that?

Uh, it's this play i'm working on for my class.

What class?

Acting class.

Oh, what? You're an actor now?

The whole law thing just didn't work out for you?

Yeah.

No, I have no idea what i'm doing, actually.

Look, I'm off in 20 minutes.

Let's...

have a drink.

Okay.

Muchos gracias, señor.

Thank you very much.

Hi, Henry.

Hi.

So, what do you think?

Really quite something.

Don't give me that.

We thought it was great.

Tell me honestly.

I can take it.

No, you can't, Henry.

You never could.

How dare you?

It was...

A bit self-indulgent.

Self-indulgent?

Yeah.

Well, thank you.

That really means a lot coming from you.

After all, that is your area of expertise, isn't it?

See? I told you?

It's okay.

He couldn't take it.

Why'd you even bother coming?

You asked me to, hen.

You asked me to.

What do you expect me to say?

It was a three-hour one-man show without an intermission.

It's barely over two.

A man needs to get up and stretch, especially after those

cramped, little seats.

Well, not everyone can debut their play on Broadway, you

know.

I'm sorry.

I knew it.

Knew what?

That you'd complain about the theater, about the lack of

grandeur.

Look, let's not go into this right now, okay?

It's a lovely evening.

I want to enjoy it.