I Don’t Do Innocents

ASTA (sister of the bride)
There are days my heart is sore.

THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
I know that.

ASTA
And sitting on the roof I can listen to everything, all you janky crowd downstairs, if I put my ear to the drainpipe.

THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
I know that too.

ASTA
Was nicer up there before the angels left.

THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
They left?

ASTA
Didn’t like the cat.

A one-act radio play Anne Carson, directed by Simon McBurney. A Complicité production for The Paris Review. The play was originally published in the Autumn 2025 issue of the literary magazine.

I Don’t Do Innocents takes place during a family wedding party from which the bride is notably absent, and follows Asta, the bride’s younger sister, as she eavesdrops from the roof through a drainpipe.

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