‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ (Blanche)
Blanche finally stands up for herself
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Blanche finally stands up for herself
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Joe erupts after years of being hounded for lying
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Johnny dreams of the kids he and Frankie could have
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Roberta is a single mother who is psychologically damaged and unable to care for herself or her child.
‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ (Roberta): “I can’t stay like I am!” Read More »
Roberta is a single mother who is psychologically damaged and unable to care for herself or her child.
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“Well, I had no choice, did I, I’m a woman”
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Lisa is a photographer who has suggested her boyfriend that they exchange apartment keys. Now, she’s realizing that may have been a mistake.
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A dramatic monologue for women from Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House.
Nora Morton is a beautiful and ambitious 16-year-old girl with dreams of Broadway. She’s often resentful of her younger sister and angry at her father for dying
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20-year old Beneatha is currently going to college and some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative family. She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman.
‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (Beneatha): “That was the most marvelous thing in the world” Read More »
A bar in Saigon. Halberstam carries a sheet of teletype paper as he talks to Stewart.
‘The Columnist’ (Halberstam): “We did it! It’s all our fault!” Read More »
STEPHEN: I’ll never forget the night she did this at the old Met. The excitement in the air. Everybody was there. Jackie Kennedy was in a box with Leonard Bernstein. No, that was for the return as Tosca seven years later and she was Jackie Onassis and she was with
MIKE: I’m tired. Stephen. I’m tired of saying I’m sorry all the time. I’m tired of tiptoeing through my life because it might interfere with yours. I’m tired of being told what opera to like, what book to read, what movies to go to, I’m tired of being your father,
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Jessica’s monologue from Kenneth Lonergan’s play, ‘This Is Our Youth’
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This is the Zillah monologue from Tony Kushner’s play, ‘A Bright Room Called Day’
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‘Have a Heart’ is a comedic monologue about a woman who loves how big a heart her boyfriend, Pete, has.
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‘Come, Go, Stay’ is a monologue about a woman attempts to explain herself and why she can’t commit, to her boyfriend.
‘Come, Go, Stay’: “But that’s just movie logic, you know?” Read More »
‘Selective Memory’, is a monologue about a woman who is nostalgic for The Beatles and romance.
‘Selective Memory’: “He told me that I ruined the Beatles for him” Read More »
Trip: You know, let me just like preface this with – uh, I’ve lived most of my life in the shadow of a brother I barely knew – and I have about “this much” left – ok? That said – the people in this book are not the same as
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