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Start: Who’s out there? Is anybody out...

Arlie

Getting Out

Marsha Norman

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Late Teen
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two
Time & Place
Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, 1970s, prison cell
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Who’s out there? Is anybody out there? (Reading.) Depart from evil and do good. (Yelling.) Now, you pay attention out there cause this is right out of the Lord’s mouth.

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End:

OK? You won’t even know I’m there. Hey Goddammit, somebody let me out of here, I can’t stand it in here any more. Somebody! (Her spirit is finally broken.)

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 53.

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