Résumé

Grace, une jeune femme innocente, débarque dans une petite ville américaine durant les années trente. Son arrivée va déclencher un véritable bouleversement dans cette communauté, où Grace renverse les divers préjugés des habitants sur la nature humaine.

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Anecdotes

• Pirate Jenny
  ''Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
  (1928)''
  You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors
  And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking
  Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell
  In this crummy Southern town
  In this crummy old hotel
  But you'll never guess to who you're talkin'.
  No. You couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin'.

  Then one night there's a scream in the night
  And you'll wonder who could that have been
  And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm scrubbin'
  And you say, "What's she got to grin?"
  I'll tell you.

  There's a ship
  The Black Freighter
  with a skull on its masthead
  will be coming in

  You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish them floors!
  Get upstairs! What's wrong with you! Earn your keep here!
  You toss me your tips
  and look out to the ships
  But I'm counting your heads
  as I'm making the beds
  Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep here, honey
  Nobody
  Nobody!

  Then one night there's a scream in the night
  And you say, "Who's that kicking up a row?"
  And ya see me kinda starin' out the winda
  And you say, "What's she got to stare at now?"
  I'll tell ya.

  There's a ship
  The Black Freighter
  turns around in the harbor
  shootin' guns from her bow

  Now
  You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face
  Cause every building in town is a flat one
  This whole frickin' place will be down to the ground
  Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound
  And you yell, "Why do they spare that one?"
  Yes.
  That's what you say.
  "Why do they spare that one?"

  All the night through, through the noise and to-do
  You wonder who is that person that lives up there?
  And you see me stepping out in the morning
  Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair

  And the ship
  The Black Freighter
  runs a flag up its masthead
  and a cheer rings the air

  By noontime the dock
  is a-swarmin' with men
  comin' out from the ghostly freighter
  They move in the shadows
  where no one can see
  And they're chainin' up people
  and they're bringin' em to me
  askin' me,
  "Kill them NOW, or LATER?"
  Askin' ME!
  "Kill them now, or later?"

  Noon by the clock
  and so still by the dock
  You can hear a foghorn miles away
  And in that quiet of death
  I'll say, "Right now.
  Right now!"

  Then they'll pile up the bodies
  And I'll say,
  "That'll learn ya!"

  And the ship
  The Black Freighter
  disappears out to sea
  And
  on
  it
  is
  me

• Katrin Cartlidge avait été choisie pour être Vera mais elle a dû quitter le casting.