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Start: My name is Mangiacavallo which me...

Alvaro Mangiacavallo

The Rose Tattoo

Tennessee Williams

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene One
Time & Place
1950s, Serafina's house
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: My name is Mangiacavallo which means “Eat-a-horse.” It’s a comical name, I know. Maybe two thousand and seventy years ago one of my grandfathers got so hungry that he ate up a horse!

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End: I go crazy, I boil, I cry, and I am ashame but I am not able to help it!--Even a Wop truck driver’s a human being! And human beings must cry ...

For the full extended monologue, please refer to: Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo. New Directions, 2010. pp. 74.

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