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RATS & RABBITS
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Based on the play "Beyond Mozambique" by George Walker
Directed by Lewis Furey
| Rita | Carol Laure |
| Enrico Rocco | Nigel Bennett |
| Petru | Paul Ahmarani |
| Olga | Veronique Le Flaguais |
| Ralph | Tom Barnett |
| Jim | Andrew Tarbet |
| One hot summer night, the mayor is brutally assassinated within the city limits. There, in the impoverished section of town, six ruined characters: Rocco, Olga, Petru, Ralph, Rita and Jim, struggle like rats and rabbits in a trap. Each one needs the other, but it is every man for himself.... |
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rats07.wav "I didn't ask you to kill anyone, you slimy little tadpole. Your job was to dig up a corpse. That way, you too, in your own limited little fashion, could participate in the advancement of medical science." |
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rats09.wav "Ah, I discover that he's a murderer and he tells me to stop screaming!" |
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rats10.wav "Would you leave the boy alone, Olga? He is not a Barbie doll." |
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rats12.wav Rocco: "Stop screeching like a hyena! Calm down." Olga: "The mayor's head is sitting on my breakfast table between the croissants and the marmalade and you say calm down? Monster!" Rocco: "Sorry. I meant - I'll take care of it. That's all." Olga: "And stop yelling!" |
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rats13.wav "The place that I want to be is quieter. A man gets his work done there without interruptions without worrying about his conscience - or his wife." |
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rats18.wav Rocco: "Petru is confined to the lab." Olga: "I'm not listening!" Rocco: "He's being punished. He was very naughty last night - and he knows it!" |
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rats23.wav Jim: "You need a psychiatrist." Rocco: "There's no psychiatrist alive that could cope with me in the absence of God." |
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rats29.wav "Good! Scalpel number 7 - and off we go." rats32.wav Rocco: "We had to operate." Woman: "Operate here?" Rocco: "We tried everything that modern medicine has to offer. My sincere condolances." |
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rats43.wav Rocco: "I give you two months. Two months at the most" Ralph: "You're joking." Rocco: "I joke with my friends - not with people like you." Ralph: "Just cure me." Rocco: "No." |
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rats60.wav "Let's not exaggerate. It's a small setback." |
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rats62.wav "You suffered a severe trauma to the brain as a child. I have fixed it - maybe all, maybe just some." |
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rats65.wav "I can't just turn him in - for obvious sake. You say black, he says white. You say hello, he says goodbye. You say 'only the dead ones', and he says, 'what's the difference?'." |
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rats66.wav Rocco: "Would you like a Prozac?" Rita: "You probably murdered him, too. Cut him into pieces - the poor defenseless kid. Rocco: "Really." |
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rats70.wav "I'd rather conserve the sperm of a retarded donkey." |
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rats82.wav "Even a child can tell you: you don't experiment with pigs to find out what's wrong with people!" |
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rats83.wav "I will find the cure to end all cures, no matter what it is. And even if I do not know what it is, and even if I never find it, I will be safe, safe, safe in the bosom of the earth because there's something about commiting crimes against humanity that puts you in touch with the meaning of the universe!" |
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rats84.wav "I am a scientist, and you are a mere diversion." |
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