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Broadway Bound

KATE: What do I want to do? Is that how...

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 1
Time & Place
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York; February late 1940s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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KATE: What do I want to do? Is that how it works? You have an affair, and I get the choice of forgetting about it or living alone for the rest of my life? . . . It’s so simple for you, isn’t it? I am so angry.

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End: Guess who Jack was having lunch with in the same restaurant twice last week? . . .Last year’s lies don’t hold up with this year, Jack . . . This year you have to deal with it.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Neil Simon, Broadway Bound, Concord Theatricals, 1986, pp. 28-29.

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