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Yes, it’s me. I am Shui Ta and Shen Te....

Shen Te/Shui Ta

The Good Person of Szechuan

Bertolt Brecht

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene 8
Time & Place
A courtroom in Szechuan
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Start: Yes, it’s me. I am Shui Ta and Shen Te. Your instruction once given me To be good and to live Ripped me in two like a lightning bolt.

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End: For your great plan, O Gods, I was too human and too small.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Brecht, Bertolt, The Good Person of Sichuan, Tr. Michael Hofmann, Methuen Drama, 1989, pp. 83.

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