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START: I don’t give a hoot about posteri...

Garry Essendine

Present Laughter

Noël Coward

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
Garry Essendine’s flat in London. Late 1930s.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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START: I don’t give a hoot about posterity. Why should I worry about what people think of me when I’m dead as a doornail anyway? My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of me when I’m alive.

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END: Go and get yourself a job as a butler in a repertory company if they’ll have you. Learn from the ground up how plays are constructed and what is actable and what isn’t. Then sit down and write at least twenty plays one after the other, and if you can manage to get the twenty-first produced for a Sunday night performance you’ll be God-damned lucky!

For full extended monologue, please refer to the video link or script edition cited here: Coward, Noel, Present Laughter, Samuel French, 1976, pp. 36-37.

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