Now, I hear theyre wondering if maybe it was a student of Tims seeking revenge or something. After having conquered two kings, couldst thou fail in obtaining a crown? PIeasures, farewell, and all ye thriftless minutesWherein false joys have spun a weary life.To these my fortunes now I take my leave.Thou, precious Time, that swiftly ridst in postOver the world, to finish up the raceOf my last fate, here stay thy restless course,And hear to ages that are yet unbornA wretched, woeful womans tragedy.My conscience now stands up against my lustWith depositions charactered in guilt,And tells me I am lost: now I confessBeauty that clothes the outside of the faceIs cursd if it be not clothed with grace.Here like a turtle (mewed up in a cage)Unmated, I converse with air and walls,And descant on my vile unhappiness.O Giovanni, that hast had the spoilOf thine own virtues and my modest fame,Would thou hadst been less subject to those starsThat luckless reigned at my nativity:O would the scourge due to my black offenceMight pass from thee, that I alone might feelThe torment of an uncontrolled flame.That man, that blessed friar,Who joined in ceremonial knot my handTo him whose wife I now am, told me oftI trod the path to death, and showed me how.But they who sleep in lethargies of lustHug their confusion, making Heaven unjust,And so did I.Forgive me, my good genius, and this onceBe helpful to my ends. But I dont want you to. I feel completely safe with you. 0000015443 00000 n 1187 0 obj <> endobj 0000006781 00000 n A monologue from the play by Arthur Kopit Jonathan Well, I made it out of lenses and tubing. Pitiless fate, whose severity separates my glory and my desires! . 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, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh_Dad,_Poor_Dad,_Mamma%27s_Hung_You_in_the_Closet_and_I%27m_Feelin%27_So_Sad_(film)&oldid=1106553380, This page was last edited on 25 August 2022, at 05:42. 0000009580 00000 n A monologue from the tv series created by Sam Levinson. After my mom died, my father took his five motherless children to Belfast, Northern Ireland. I shall die here. I mean, thats what its all about, right? Shonda . Maybe I wont be around. Black kids dont go into the cafeteria and shoot up everybody or stalk teachers and shoot them. 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! Disclaimer: Some of the articles on Mighty Actor include affiliate links to sites like Amazon, Skillshare, and others. Here, here, or here? SEVEN ARTS / RAY STARK In Association With PARAMOUNT PICTURES Presents/ Oh Dad,/ Poor Dad,/ Mamma's Hung You/ In The Closet/ And I'm Feelin'/ So Sad/ [credit block]. Number 1,352,768 was a fake, and number 1,352,769 was a fake. 0000030132 00000 n while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. The lenses I had, because Ma-Ma-Mother gave me a set of lenses so I could see my stamps better. I went to a real estate office. It never was. No Comments . Changing Lanes 8. Like it was all some elaborate scheme I thought up. It will be just like all the other times youve left, only this time, youre already packed. (showing him the houses). I wouldnt bring another one of you sons into this world! It was true for years. Let's check out this play's plot via StageAgent: After being kicked out of culinary school, aspiring chef Pax returns to his hometown to regroup. people make all these fucking promises. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures. You can choose to love me as much as I love you. The Mud Puddle, monologue Genre: COMEDY/CHILDREN'S Cast: FEMALE (MALE) Setting: OUTSIDE, NEAR A MUD PUDDLE The Other "Other Women," monologue Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA, Cast: FEMALE, Setting: HOTEL ROOM The Plum-Colored Sweater, monologue Genre: COMEDIC/DRAMATIC, Cast: FEMALE, Setting: A CLOTHING STORE A child of the space program. Some called it the American Desert. 0000025434 00000 n How I loved you! You know, like, leave me. 0000038496 00000 n intimacy of it embarrasses me. If Id known you were going to make my dress as long as that Id rather have stayed thirteen. Clothes are just something I use for cover, leaving room for one electric blue memory. I drank without thinking. You can think yourself lucky if one fine morning your little precious doesnt cut her sleeves off or come home in the evening without shoes and stockings. We all make our choices. 0000029197 00000 n 0000015728 00000 n If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission at no additional cost to you. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! In a way, I put all my romanticism into that one night, and I was never able to feel all this again. Youre Virtual Dad! No one moved like him. 0000034428 00000 n I was alone with Mary. You see? 0000010146 00000 n 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. There's no place like home! Not even my parents. Then continues.) . I know why you made that vow to your father. 0000034997 00000 n Hold on. Out here, you turn towards the pain as it tears into you. Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other. [3] The play transferred to Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on August 27, 1963, and closed on October 5, 1963. Because I saw you. Everybody likes me. 1 minute and 23 seconds later the plane crashed into a field. a weak and divided person who stood in adoring awe of your singleness, of your strength. Then a man weve never met chose to kill him. People around me say it automatically in response to how are you doing? Why did you come almost close enoughand no closer? They they take needles and poke at my hands. Far from the cities that have paved the world away, and the farms which had turned it into a resource. %%EOF I taped Larry Lester's buns together. Like the whole thing at the train station. New scenes were directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Right?!. I remember it so well, that I would shed my blood rather than degrade my rank. Tis I:Do you know me now? boiling?In leads or oils? I survived the sexual abuse by my uncle when I was 11. (Pause. DAD! Its that stage in development when a kid starts to trust her primary caretaker, to believe that he or she is there even if she cant see him. Learn about Nisrine's vision for PAC here. Eventually, it becomes you that part of you that gives you a reason to wake up and breathe every day. His touch felt like love or as close to it as I could imagine. And it has been with me for so long, that its comforting. I swear one night Im going to go out, and Im just not going to come home. I would have gladly given my life for you, but it wouldnt have helped. I want you to know I understand, Even though were enemies, you and I, I understand the fury that drives you. (Ellaria starts gagging) Im sorry, I cant understand you, that gag makes it impossible to understand what youre saying, it must be frustrating. A monologue from the screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor. Now hes buried somewhere, and heres Ser Gregor stronger than ever. You dont feel the cold at my age, specially not in the legs. from my mother?My courage fails, now know I what to speak,Pouring libations on my fathers tomb.Or shall I pray, as holy wont enjoins,That to the senders of these chaplets, heRequital may accord, ay! Renly was the kings brother after all. I don't think I'll ever understand the 60's? It was a girl. It is so boring. 0000018358 00000 n Some may claim that slavery has ended. (Detective doesnt answer.) And the wolf has no interest in your dreams. You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt your dreams forgotten. Where money is more important than humanity? 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. (She turns and looks upon the palace door. 0000007067 00000 n 0000005762 00000 n And I dont feel sad, either. Tried to find words to describe it. 0000028626 00000 n A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play. for allThy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.That thou betraydst Polixenes,twas nothing;That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstantAnd damnable ingrateful: nor wast much,Thou wouldst have poisond good Camillos honour,To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckonThe casting forth to crows thy baby-daughterTo be or none or little; though a devilWould have shed water out of fire ere donet:Nor ist directly laid to thee, the deathOf the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heartThat could conceive a gross and foolish sireBlemishd his gracious dam: this is not, no,Laid to thy answer: but the last,O lords,When I have said, cry woe! the queen, the queen,The sweetst, dearst creatures dead,and vengeance fortNot droppd down yet. I have to do this again. You must have felt powerful after you made that choice. He danced with me and none of the other boys could say a word. Then get out. Dartmouth. (beat) It just kind of set something off in my head, you know? You can hear it, cant you? 0000019221 00000 n My mom barely goes out. I survived losing my first love, Eve, because I was scared to be gay. The concept is absurd. Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!For whilst I think I am thy married wifeAnd thou a prince, protector of this land,Methinks I should not thus be led along,Maild up in shame, with papers on my back,And followed with a rabble that rejoiceTo see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,And when I start, the envious people laughAnd bid me be advised how I tread.Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?Trowst thou that eer Ill look upon the world,Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?No; dark shall be my light and night my day;To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.Sometime Ill say, I am Duke Humphreys wife,And he a prince and ruler of the land:Yet so he ruled and such a prince he wasAs he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,Was made a wonder and a pointing-stockTo every idle rascal follower.But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,Nor stir at nothing till the axe of deathHang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will;For Suffolk, he that can do all in allWith her that hateth thee and hates us all,And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,And, fly thou how thou canst, theyll tangle thee:But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,Nor never seek prevention of thy foes. "Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad is the scream of the Fifties begging to be let out of its sterile, gray, restrictive . . Surrounded by the illusion of order. (They sit in silence for a few beats. He made you believe that you needed to be without fault in order to be loved. You will live to watch your daughter rot, to watch that beautiful face collapse to bone and dust all the while contemplating the choices youve made. I guess he thought we could best recover from the trauma of her death by living in a war zone. So big with it, it couldn't be put in a coffin! I trusted her. I think nature is really going to help. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?By day and night he wrongs me; every hourHe flashes into one gross crime or other,That sets us all at odds: Ill not endure it:His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids usOn every trifle. New Year's Wish - romantic monologue; a woman appeals to her boyfriend to forget about the party downstairs and stay with her as the ball drops. Tis foolishness, I ween,To overstep in aught the golden mean. Copyright [2021] Mighty Actor, 84 Dramatic Monologues For Women (Powerful & Emotional Pieces), DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES FOR TEENS/KIDS (BOYS), DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES FOR TEENS/KIDS (GIRLS), 21 Best Contemporary Dramatic Monologues For Women From Published Plays, 20 Dramatic Monologues For Women From Tv-Shows, 19 Dramatic Monologues For Women From Movies, 24 CLASSICAL DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN, 19 Dramatic Shakespeare Monologues For Women, Loves Labours Lost in Plain & Simple English, King Henry VIII In Plain & Simple English, 7 Best Modeling Agencies In Iowa (Up-to-date & Current Listings), 21 Contemporary Dramatic Monologues For Women From Published Plays, 24 Classical Dramatic Monologues For Women. Nisrine Amine is an actor, writer, producer and Creative Director at PAC. 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