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Start: I mean, Jesus…you think I was bor...

Ben Harcourt

The Mercy Seat

Neil LaBute

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Time & Place
An apartment in New York City immediately after the September 11 attacks
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: I mean, Jesus…you think I was born this way, like some cutthroat pirate of the high seas? Huh? Hell, I’m just trying to muddle through, that’s all.

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End: We’ve been given something here. A chance to…I don’t know what, to wash away a lot of the, just, rotten crap we’ve done. More than anything else, that’s what this is. A chance. I know it is.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Neil LaBute, The Mercy Seat, Faber and Faber, 2002, pp. 31-32.

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