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    The Crackwalker
    The Crackwalker
    The Crackwalker
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    The Crackwalker

    By Judith Thompson

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    Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, but she continues to hold on to her limitless innocence. The Crackwalker captures the music, the dialect, and the unpretty realities of the inner city. First produced thirty years ago, Thompson's striking portrayal of the discarded class in Canada continues to move audiences today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9780887549373
    The Crackwalker
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    Judith Thompson

    Judith Thompson is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for White Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada and in 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Palace of the End. Judith is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and lives with her husband and five children in Toronto.

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      I actually found this play to be very intense. It spoke to me in way i can not describe. I picked this play on a whim to help out a friend of mine and was absolutely blown away by the sheer raw power of it!

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    The Crackwalker - Judith Thompson

    Act One

    Scene One

    THERESA: Shut up, mouth, I not goin back there no more, no way, I’m goin back to Sandy’s! (to audience) You know what she done to me? She make me go livin with her up on Division near Chung Wah’s, ’cause she say I come from God, eh, then she go lookin in my room every night, see if I got guys in there ’cause Bonnie Cain told her I was suckin off queers down the Lido for five bucks; I wasn’t doin it anyways, Bonnie Cain was doin it, I was just watchin. So last night, eh, I’m up there with a friend of mine, Danny, he a taxi driver—we’re just talkin, eh, we weren’t doin nothin, and so she come up and knock on the door and she say, Trese, I know you got someone in there, and I go No, Mrs. Beddison, ain’t nobody in here, and she start goin on about God and that, and how she knowed ’cause she got a six feelin in her, so I get scared, eh, so I tell Danny to get in the closet. We don’t got no clothes on, eh, so I put his jeans and that under the bed and I get under the covers like I’m sleepin and I go S’kay, Mrs. Beddison, you could come in now. So she come in lookin at me like a stupid bitch and she say she knowed there was somebody in there ’cause she heard talkin and I says, You feelin okay, Mrs. Beddison, ain’t nobody here cept me and I sleepin, then she start goin near the closet, eh, and Danny start laughin. Well she run up the closet and she pullin on the door and I’m pullin on her arm and I’m saying, Trust me, Mrs. Beddison, ya gotta trus me, ’cause the sosha workers are always goin on about trus and that, eh, but she don’t listen, she open the door and there’s Danny standin stripped naked. Well that whoredog Beddison start screamin God words at him, eh, so he takes off outta the house and she takes off after him, and I got his pants, eh, so I throw em out the window case he catch em, and then I bawlin. I bawlin on the bed and ya know what she make me do? She make me take a bath! A bubble bath like for the baby! All bubbles and that! Then she make me put on her stupid dressin robe, itch my skin and smell like chocolate bars and that, and she take me to where she livin and you know what she make me do? She make me read the Bible! I don’t like readin no stupid Bible! Ya get a stomach ache doin that, ya do! Stupid hosebag. I’m not goin back there no more, no way, I’m goin back to

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