‘Disgraced’ (Amir): “That was the first girl I ever kissed”
“That was the first girl I ever kissed. Rivkah was the first girl I ever got up in the morning thinking about”
Plays
‘Disgraced’ (Amir): “You keep saying that like it means something”
“You keep saying that like it means something. You still don’t get it. The Quran is about tribal life in a seventh-century desert, Isaac.”
‘The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence’ (Watson)
“Well obviously I can’t take this. I mean, I didn’t do it for the money anyway…”
‘Marion Bridge’ (Agnes)
“In the dream I’m drowning. But I don’t know it at first. At first I hear water and I imagine it’s going to be a lovely dream.”
‘Crimes of the Heart’ (Babe)
“After I shot Zackery, I put the gun down on the piano bench, and then I went out into the kitchen and made up a pitcher of lemonade.”
‘Proof’ (Catherine)
“I lived with him. I spent my life with him. I fed him. Talked to him. Tried to listen when he talked.”
‘The Glass Menagerie’ (Tom)
“What do you think I’m at? Aren’t I supposed to have any patience to reach the end of, Mother?”
‘Arcadia’ (Valentine)
“If you knew the algorithm and fed it back say ten thousand times, each time there’d be a dot somewhere on the screen.”
‘Oleanna’ (Carol): “The issue here is not what I ‘feel.'”
“The issue here is not what I “feel.” It is not my “feelings,” but the feelings of women. And men.”
‘Oleanna’ (Carol): “Why do you hate me?”
“Why do you hate me? Because you think me wrong? No. Because I have, you think, power over you.”
‘In the Next Room’ (Elizabeth): “My mother told me to pray”
“When I first met her all I could think was: she is alive and Henry is not.”
‘Red’ (Rothko): “All those bugs – ach!”
Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art
‘Red’ (Ken): “Bores you?!”
Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery
‘Spike Heels’ (Lydia): “At first, I admired Andrew’s interest in your welfare”
A contemporary comedy of manners which explores sexual harassment, misplaced amour, and the possibility of a four sided love triangle.
‘Fences’ (Rose): “I been standing with you!”
A dramatic monologue for women from the classic play, Fences, by August Wilson.
