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Chauncey: So help me God. Now let me say...

Chauncey Miles

The Nance

Douglas Carter Beane

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 1
Time & Place
Courtroom, New York City, 1937
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Chauncey: So help me God. Now let me say your honour, I certainly understand your - dismay? Is that the right word? - at some of the goings on on the stage of the Irving Place Theatre.

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All we do at the Irving Place is get the audience to laugh. Laugh at the gap between what is known and what can be said. And when they laugh, well it makes those who would force laws a little jumpy. That’s all, because really what are we laughing at? The idea that we can’t say something. In this day and age? With all that’s going on in Europe right now? Gentleman, come on, we don’t really believe that this is all so bad now do we? Honestly?

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Douglas Carter Beane, The Nance, Dramatist Play Service, 2016.

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