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The Sea at Dauphin

Derek Walcott

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
St. Lucia, village seashore, 1950s
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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You know why we taking out stone? Is more rough than you will see this sea again for many weeks, but we must go or belly full of wind, the canot must be fast and light to ride high white water, and if the pots have enough it will be heavy coming back.

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End:

It will not make you laugh, old man, every night it getting white, and the birds running hungry on the rocks by Maingot side.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Derek Walcott, The Sea at Dauphin, in Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970. pp.57-58.

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