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DIRECTOR’S CUT

By James Morrow

“Director’s Cut” is section from that novel. James writes, Echoes of ‘Director’s Cut

survive here and there in the [novel] manuscript, but the narrative structure could not

accommodate a complete, autonomous one-cut play. And so, rather poetically, this

play about ‘missing scenes’ is itself a missing scene.” We are lucky to have it in our

pages.

* * * *

THE CURTAIN RISES ON THE prophet MOSES, caught in the glow of a

spotlight and sitting atop a mound of Dead Sea sand. The famous Tablets of the

Law stick out of the dune like ears on a Mickey Mouse cap. A large rear-projection

video screen is suspended over Moses’s head. An off-stage INTERVIEWER

addresses the patriarch.

INTERVIEWER. I’ll never forget. Who could forget? There I am, only nine

years old, and Morn and Dad take me to see Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten

Commandments . . .

MOSES. A terrific picture, Marty, don’t you think?

INTERVIEWER. It sure impressed me as a kid. Today . . . well, it seems a

bit hokey.

MOSES. Hokey? Hokey? That DeMille was a genius, Marty, a certifiable

genius.

INTERVIEWER. Is it true his original cut ran over seven hours?

MOSES. Yep. Of course, no theater chain was willing to book the thing.

You’d have had to serve dinner in the middle, like on a flight from London to Tel

Aviv.

INTERVIEWER. It’s rumored some of the original rushes are in your

possession.

MOSES. No way, Marty. You pull papyrus out by the roots and -- bang --it

disintegrates in a few days.

INTERVIEWER. I meant movie rushes.

MOSES. (laughs and slaps his knee) I know you did -- gotcha! (holds up

fistful of motion picture film) Over the past forty years, I’ve managed to collect bits

and pieces from nearly every missing scene.

INTERVIEWER. For example?

MOSES. The Plagues of Egypt. The release prints included blood, darkness,

and hail . . .

An excerpt from The Ten Commandments appears on the video screen: fiery

hail clattering across the balcony of Pharaoh’s palace.

MOSES. But they were lacking some of the really interesting ones. You

should’ve seen what DeMilie did with frogs.

The screen displays two elderly, working-class Egyptian women,

BAKETAMON and NELLIFER, potters by trade, sitting on the banks of the Nile

River. As they speak, BAKETAMON fashions a canopic jar, NELLIFER a soup

tureen.

BAKETAMON. (addressing interviewer) The frogs? How could I ever forget

the frogs?

NELLIFER. You’d open your unmentionables drawer and--pop--one of them

little suckers would jump in your face.

BAKETAMON. Don’t let anyone tell you God hasn’t got a sense of humor.

INTERVIEWER. Which plague was the worst?

BAKETAMON. The boils, I think. My skin looked like the back of the

moon.

NELLIFER. The boils, are you kidding? The locusts were far worse than the

boils.

BAKETAMON. The mosquitoes were pretty nasty too.

NELLIFER. And the flies,

BAKETAMON. And the cattle getting murrain,

NELLIFER. And the death of the firstborn. A lot of people hated that one.

BAKETAMON. Of course, it didn’t touch Nelli and me.

NELLIFER. We were lucky, Our firstborns were already dead.

BAKETAMON. Mine died in the hail.

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DIRECTOR’SCUTByJamesMorrow“Director’sCut”issectionfromthatnovel.Jameswrites,Echoesof‘Director’sCutsurvivehereandthereinthe[novel]manuscript,butthenarrativestructurecouldnotaccommodateacomplete,autonomousone-cutplay.Andso,ratherpoetically,thisplayabout‘missingscenes’isitselfamissingscene.”Weareluckyt...

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