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START: Garry: I was right about you from...

Garry Essendine

Present Laughter

Noël Coward

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2 Scene 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: Garry: I was right about you from the first.

[Joanna: Were you?]

Garry: You’re predatory as hell!

[Joanna: Garry!]

Garry: You got the wretched Hugo when he was convalescent, you’ve made a dead set at Morris, and now by God you’re after me! Don’t deny it-- I can see it in your eye.

[... … …]

END: When I’m driven into a corner I tell the truth, and the truth at the moment is that I know you, Joanna, I know what you’re after, I can see through every trick. (Move in) Go away from me! Leave me alone!

For full extended monologue, please refer to the video link or script edition cited here: Coward, Noel, Present Laughter, Samuel French, 1976, p. 54.

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