Small Banquet Room
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A small banquet room configured for a DNC luncheon, with round tables, white linens, banners and a podium. It is the confined public arena where Abbey's speech and Amy's mishap play out, intensifying the visibility of personal error while allowing rapid social containment through ceremony and applause.
Light, celebratory, slightly formal — convivial with intermittent laughter; the napkin incident introduces mild tension quickly neutralized by humor.
Stage for a ceremonial, political event and the public scene where optics are managed and social hierarchies are on display.
Represents institutional performance and the interplay between private vulnerability and public persona; a place where personal mistakes must be absorbed by ritual.
Open to invited attendees (circa 75); not a secure area but a controlled, ticketed event space.
The small banquet room is the origin point of the incident: Amy describes reaching for a water glass in that room and misjudging a candle, which led to the napkin catching fire and prompted the characters to exit into the courtyard.
Previously convivial and slightly chaotic (with a small mishap); now receded as principals move outside.
Source of the embarrassment that necessitates damage control in the courtyard.
Represents the formal interior stage where careful presentation can go wrong, forcing actors into a more exposed space.
Event attendees and honorees; an indoor, seated banquet environment.
The small banquet room is the proximate origin of the incident that sets the scene: Amy's napkin/candle mishap occurs here, prompting her apology that follows Abbey into the courtyard and frames Amy's credibility and approachability during the later exchange.
Warm, crowded, slightly embarrassed — convivial with a twinge of awkwardness after the napkin incident.
Point of exit and informal origin for the courtyard encounter; a private-adjacent space feeding into public exposure.
A domestic, feminine space where small social slips can scale into public moments.
Reserved for luncheon attendees and honorees; semi‑private.
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At a DNC luncheon honoring ‘the Bartlet women,’ Abbey opens with sharp humor and lists female policy victories while Amy Gardner, nervously seated nearby, accidentally sets her napkin on fire. …
After accidentally setting her napkin on fire, Amy is shepherded out into the hotel courtyard by Abbey, where a teasing, loaded question about Josh Lyman quickly becomes a revealing moment. …
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