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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Five
Time & Place
Memory, Prison cell
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Girl, he’s a loser. What’d he ever give you? Nineteen cents and those ugly Day-Glo stockings? Look, it’s finished! Kaput! Done! And you should be glad! I mean, the guy was a woofer!

[... … …]

End:

What do you mean, “But he’s Japanese?” You’re Japanese! You think you’ve been touched by the whitey god? He was a sailor with dirty hands!

For the full monologue, see the script edition cited here: David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, Penguin Books, 1988, pp. 12-13.

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Howlround Theatre Commons: M. Butterfly from 1988 to 2017

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