(The play Still Life is part of the anthology Special Days). I told everyone my family died in a fire, and I came to accept it as true. 0000019221 00000 n I hurt, dont you understand that? 0000025132 00000 n 0000038228 00000 n You must have felt powerful after you made that choice. A monologue from the play by Tracey Scott Wilson. I realized as a woman how lucky I was. There is no alternative to justice in this case. Did you hear that? From the play Hello, Goodbye, Peace. The same speech Ive been hearing since he left. 0000040258 00000 n 0000044102 00000 n It was true for years. Sideways 7. Yes, I remember the long afternoons of our childhood, when I had to stay indoors to practice my music. Id known death since I was a child. It took everything. 0000026006 00000 n You say you love me, but doesnt love mean being available to a person? DAD! Jo Van Fleet (Madame Rosepettle), Austin Pendleton (Jonathan) and Barbara Harris (Rosalie). After the wedding she moved in. 0000022469 00000 n Watch the showhttps://youtu.be/id1zNMvAQ0U, A monologue from the tv series created by Chris Van Dusen. But you have a great excuse, because the rainforest isnt wired for cell service. . And upon that sand a new god will walk. A monologue from the play 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung you in the Closet . while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. And we go through the same routine every time. Renly was the kings brother after all. Oh, I suppose I am sick. That must be difficult for you. He made you believe that you needed to be without fault in order to be loved. In the interim, the understandably nervous studio hired. it never succeeds in either extinguishing the love, or accepting the lover! I tried to run away, but Renly Baratheon took me in his arms. I think its safe to say that I have explored the full range of rage. Because I cant. A telescope so I might be able to see. I survived the sexual abuse by my uncle when I was 11. A monologue from the screenplay by Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkin. Really? (After a short pause, fearfully.) And I find that reassuring. The lenses I had, because Ma-Ma-Mother gave me a set of lenses so I could see my stamps better. But tell that to the inmates who are kept in cages and told that they dont have any rights at all. destiny has allowed that love should continue even between two enemies. Why they hate us so much. He won the Vernon Rice Award (now known as the Drama Desk Award) in 1962 for his play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Cl He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (Indians and Wings) and a three-time Tony Award nominee: Best Play, Indians, 1970; Best Play, Wings, 1979; and Best Book of a Musical, for Nine, 1982. Her trying to get me to run away with her, even though I was, um, scared, and . (narration for Jonathan Winters written by), See production, box office & company info. if Chimne ever has Rodrigo for a husband, my hope is dead and my spirit, is healed. This bridal is fatal to me, I fear it, and [yet] I desire it; I dare to hope from it only an incomplete joy; my honor and my love have for me such attractions. what friend of mineThat had to him derived your anger, did IContinue in my liking? . All I can do is wait. A monologue from the play by Arthur Kopit. They came en masse, dressed in their Alexanders best. The screenplay was written by Ian Bernard. 0000034695 00000 n By VINCENT CANBY. Quiche isn't Sexy - humorous monologue about romantic disappointment. (Beat.) Sadly for Linda, she has never felt like a beautiful woman and in this monologue she talks openly about it to a stranger. In law school, I changed my name to sound more New England.. In case of emergency. But today, you decide. No one had such skill with his spear. Here, she starts out talking to Guy, an addict in the group, but expands her confessional to include everyone, finishing up with Guy, who might be the only person who can redeem her. He could have walked away and left poor Ser Gregor to die. Now I wish you would tell mewhy didnt it happen between us? You have no idea what that means. Weiss. I have to do this again. Where criminality is confused with mental health? Thus let us hope for no advantage, either from his transgression or from my grief, since, to punish me. 0000028916 00000 n Im just a kid. You said, lets talk truthfully, even shamelessly, then! I knew that I must die,Een hadst thou not proclaimed it; and if deathIs thereby hastened, I shall count it gain.For death is gain to him whose life, like mine,Is full of misery. The only one who doesnt get phone calls? I have real trouble telling the truth. 0000025434 00000 n (Pause. In a way, I put all my romanticism into that one night, and I was never able to feel all this again. 0000007067 00000 n Your horrors effaced. And I thought to myself, if I could just see if I could just see what they looked like, the people, sitting at their windows looking out and flying. And how Irushed to the window to watch you jump the porch railing! I guess he thought we could best recover from the trauma of her death by living in a war zone. Until she gets a boyfriend. 0000012701 00000 n It is Hell. The principal roles were originated on Broadway by Hermione Gingold (Madame Rosepettle), Sam Waterston (Jonathan, her awkward son), Alix Elias (Rosalie, seductive babysitter), and Sndor Szab (Commodore Roseabove). ), So I built a telescope in case the plane ever came back again. For your gifts,I will return them all; and I do wishThat I could make you full executorTo all my sins that I could toss myselfInto a grave as quickly: for all thou art worthIll not shed one tear more Ill burst first. 0000031265 00000 n My therapist, are you in therapy? Theres these moments that shape our lives, moments you have no control over. Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. Laughing and chattering such pretty sounds. This refusal of the child catalyzes her recollection of what happened to her own baby when she was a child soldier. Let me help you with this., A monologue from the screenplay by James V. Hart & Michael Goldenberg. And I realized I was the ugliest girl alive. One that will never die. I dont know. Life Is A Dream 3. She died when she was 39 years old. JGs@ JsM &|xI%$7m25\. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition was the first play written by Arthur Kopit . Read the play here Student Edition|Regular Edition, A monologue from the play by Frank Wedekind. Drag queens also would be barred from performing between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Monday through Saturday and between 1 a.m. and noon on Sunday. I do them, but why should I? I think cities have weakened us as a species. listening for his irregular heartbeat and when our gazes met one cold stare meeting another I could see that he was aware that I knew. Ive worn a mask every day of my life. So big with it, it couldn't be put in a coffin! Jessicas husband was murdered when the couple stopped for gasoline in a black neighborhood. 0000035920 00000 n Except that I loved her. Electric blue. In comparison, Monica's relationships are written much healthier - Pete, and Richard - and it shows in Chandler x Monica, possibly one of my favourite TV couples ever. Such ideas come to me in the evening when I cant go to sleep. Am I a bad person? But lately I have started to wonder if maybe we just say that to make ourselves feel better. Is not that glimmer there afar That dying exhalation that pale star A tiny taper, which, with trembling blazeFlickering twixt struggling flames and dying rays,With ineffectual sparkMakes the dark dwelling place appear more dark?Yes, for its distant light,Reflected dimly, brings before my sightA dungeons awful gloom,Say rather of a living corse, a living tomb;And to increase my terror and surprise,Drest in the skins of beasts a man there lies:A piteous sight,Chained, and his sole companion this poor light.Since then we cannot fly,Let us attentive to his words draw nigh,Whatever they may be. repose] this day depends upon it. Im lonely. See, it says "For Kids." . The film stars Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse and Barbara Harris; Harris was the only main cast member who had also appeared in the original, Off-Broadway production of the play. Im a coward. Which means that the promise of civil rights has never been fulfilled. 0000053075 00000 n ), I dont know if it was a girl dressed like a guy or a guy dressed like a girl dressed like a guy. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! And so far Ive looked closely at 1,352,769. Before Sunset 11. I dont know. The lenses were the lenses she had given me for my stamps, So I built it. 0000032450 00000 n 0000010146 00000 n A monologue from the screenplay by Hubert Selby Jr. & Darren Aronofsky. The little girl-dress suits me better than that old sack. 0000030703 00000 n Flying some-where, far away. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad is a 1967 American black comedy film directed by Richard Quine, based on the 1962 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition by Arthur L. Kopit. You chose to murder my daughter. Then again, I blame pretty much everything on that, my weight, my addiction to television, my inability to spell. Even if I didnt see anything else, I did see you. There are no consequences there. Then its name becomes clear. But I will not follow thesewhere my honor is concerned, the captivation of my feelings does not abate my courage. But I chose to find out.. It always confused me, because I didnt really know what it meant. . Select Page. Arthur Lee Kopit (born May 10, 1937, New York City) is an American playwright. I have no visuals of prom dresses or favorite sweater or shoes I couldnt live without. 0000009580 00000 n (Pause. []. The first, fourth and fifth rows were on the field in9. Its not even the lies that hurt, you know? What do you call this house?Is this your palace? When I wear my penitential robe Ill be dressed like the queen of the fairies underneath. I went to a real estate office. I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever A vision of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how rare, and precious we all are! The OPA Monologues. intimacy of it embarrasses me. Right?!. 1318 0 obj <>stream We would lunch someplace while shopping. They wondered aloud who belonged to those people. There can be no mistakes. Never! A monologue from the screenplay by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola. . Is that my share? The physical therapists. Peter (male/female): Yes, Wendy, I know fairies! I know why you made that vow to your father. And when I look back at it, you know, just, its like she lied to me. She was always one step ahead of the landlord. How unfamiliar words like collateral and rendition became frightening. Most of the time, most days, I feel ..nothing. I will count every minute that the kids are away from here, away from you, as a victory. At least you get letters. Ma-Mother says its a lesson in Life. Thats what Ive done, Ali. Thats the one. It will be just like all the other times youve left, only this time, youre already packed. I dont think it matters. I fed her at my own breast even though they told me to give her to the wet nurse. And it has been with me for so long, that its comforting. But you know black kids dont really do that, do they? Youre sucking all my energy up in your silence. Im sorry. Dick, Bernard F. "Engulfed: the death of Paramount Pictures and the birth of corporate Hollywood" (p. 105). Just for the summer! I was free. fires] in order to extinguish my own. Does this my hair not tell the tale?Can you not see these scars,these signs of savage blows, this blood?And are you men of honour?Are you my father and my kin?Are you so cold, so cruelyour very souls arent torn apartto see such suffering?But no, your town is aptly named,and youre not men, but sheep!Let me be armed for battle, then,if youre so hard of heart,such stocks and stones, such tigresses . 0000047328 00000 n Due to the failure of our justice system, our public defense system in particular, Jim Crow is alive and kicking; laws that made it illegal for blacks and whites to be buried in the same cemetery, that categorized people into quadroons and octaroons, that punished a black person for seeking medical attention in a white hospital. Did not the judge style itA house of penitent whores? Its murder. V For Vendetta 3. I might assuredly answer to thee. Michelle is in a hospital gown, her hands are wrapped. 0000042275 00000 n Yes, it had begun that early. (Beat). A monologue from the tv series created by Taylor Sheridan. What that felt like. He really did. She refuses to take Martinas baby, Sofia, should Martina die, because she prefers to remain focused on her education. A time, methinks, too shortTo make a world-without-end bargain in.No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:If for my love, as there is no such cause,You will do aught, this shall you do for me:Your oath I will not trust; but go with speedTo some forlorn and naked hermitage,Remote from all the pleasures of the world;There stay until the twelve celestial signsHave brought about the annual reckoning.If this austere insociable lifeChange not your offer made in heat of blood;If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weedsNip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,But that it bear this trial and last love;Then, at the expiration of the year,Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,And, by this virgin palm now kissing thineI will be thine; and till that instant shutMy woeful self up in a mourning house,Raining the tears of lamentationFor the remembrance of my fathers death.If this thou do deny, let our hands part,Neither entitled in the others heart. No books. You just came home in time for the funerals, Stella. One-two-three one-two-three. They shoved each other and threatened to duel when they thought it was their turn to dance. Tried to find words to describe it. They were incredibly proud, and why not? what I (Slight pause. Female Monologues from TV Shows Orange is the New Black Nicky: (20's/30's) Hey, you know that thing that happens to lesbians in high school? 0000000016 00000 n She has learned that her friend, Martina, a gang member, is HIV+. Heaven witness,I have been to you a true and humble wife,At all times to your will conformable;Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorryAs I saw it inclined: when was the hourI ever contradicted your desire,Or made it not mine too? And youre not medicated? Merciful Heaven,Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous boltSplitst the unwedgeable and gnarled oakThan the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what hes most assured,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal. 0000012129 00000 n Dont touch. Changing Lanes 8. 0000008469 00000 n Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?Edwards seven sons, whereof thyself art one,Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,Or seven fair branches springing from one root:Some of those seven are dried by natures course,Some of those branches by the Destinies cut;But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,One vial full of Edwards sacred blood,One flourishing branch of his most royal root,Is crackd, and all the precious liquor spilt,Is hackd down, and his summer leaves all faded,By envys hand and murders bloody axe.Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. You neednt try to deceive me. (Beat.) A few years later my dad got remarried to a lovely woman. A monologue from the play by Emma Goldman-Sherman. Im your wife, damn it! 0000020958 00000 n The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him around with her. . No. You see? Read the play here Folger|No Fear Shakespeare, Watch the movie 1995 (Ian McKellen)|1956 (Laurence Olivier). Maybe I wont be around. Oedipus the King 2. .for they, when hunters steal their youngferociously pursueand slay them, till they reach the seaand plunge beneath its waves.Not tigresses, but timid hares,not Spaniards, but barbarians,too chicken-hearted to denyyour women to other men!Why not wear distaffs at your waists?Why gird on useless swords?I swear to God we women aloneshall make those tyrants payfor our indignities, and billthose traitors for our blood.And you, you effete effeminates,I sentence to be stonedas spinsters, pansies, queens and cowards,and forced henceforth to wearour bonnets and our overskirts,with painted, powdered faces.Our valorous Commander meansto have Frondoso hangeduncharged, untried and uncondemnedfrom yonder battlements.Hell serve all you unmanly menthe same, and Ill rejoice;for when this honourable townis womanless, that ageshall dawn which once amazed the world,the age of Amazons. But to be honest I feel like the real opportunities are the ones that fall into your lap. It had never placed it rotten finger on my heart. 0000035304 00000 n Because here doesnt care. My father sent me ten dollars every week, his lotto money. And I know you love me. The talks about . (beat). A person needs shots and a state department visa just to get to you. I lie in bed and stare at the canopy and imagine ways of killing my enemies. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad by Arthur Kopit . Directors Alexander MacKendrick, Richard Quine Starring I shall die here. He decided that he wanted to direct Santacqua, and he did. To whom should I complain? sighs] must my heart prepare itself, if, after such a long, painful struggle. The black student would have been arrested and we wouldnt be here. There is nowhere to chain love to vows and ceremony. You know, like, leave me. This monologue comes from Dreams in Captivity by Gabriel Davis. fires? I mean, thats what its all about, right? Passafist Reviews Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hun You In The Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad. And, uh, manipulated me. %%EOF I cant seem to I cant seem to shake the real implication of dying. You do a thing long enough, your whole life, I guess . What have I got Harry, hmm? He was studying acting at the Herbert Berghof School with the illustrious Mrs. Berghof, Uta Hagen. I should have said that my mother took an extra shift so I could have a new coat every year. But it had never touched me. And Im Kelly Anne Baldwin, raised in Houston, daughter of Karen and Ed Baldwin. This ones on half an acre and uh, this one is older, but it has a really good view and the neighborhoods pretty. Tara's children's monologues for males and females are for children age 4, at the elementary school age level, through pre-teens at the middle school level. (A collective gasp.). dead Henrys woundsOpen their congeald mouths and bleed afresh!Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;For tis thy presence that exhales this bloodFrom cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,Provokes this deluge most unnatural.O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!O earth, which this blood drinkst revenge his death!Either heaven with lightning strike themurderer dead,Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,As thou dost swallow up this good kings bloodWhich his hell-governd arm hath butchered! There's a TV for each room, so no one has to fight over what to watch, and 10 bathrooms.
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