ms. rooney is? >> rose: who? >> rose: ms. rooney, your character. >> oh, she's wonderful. i love beckett anyway and i think i've seen nearly everything and i wish i had been his muse but he had billie whitelaw was his muse but mrs. rooney is just an irish woman, she's not -- it's difficult to put class on people in ireland, it's less obvious than england. she's just a woman who's had a tragic -- a tragedy happen to her but she's not -- oh, she's wonderful. she's what you call the salt of the earth if she hadn't had the tragedy happen to her. she -- it's -- >> it's seemingly a very simple play in the sense that it follows the journey of this woman mrs. rooney, this married woman mrs. rooney to the local railway station where she meets off the train her blind husband in order to help him back home. therefore, very simply, to the railway station, back home again. that's what happens. but during the course of it you meet a large number of the people of that community. and you come to realize that people are rather wary of mrs. rooney. that they find her rather disturbing and ra