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Your Majesty, my wife and I have nothing...

Old Man

The Chairs

Eugène Ionesco

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
An unnamed island in a post-apocalytpic world
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Your Majesty, my wife and I have nothing more to ask of life. Our existence can come to an end in this apotheosis…thanks be to heaven who have granted us such long and peaceful years…My life has been filled to overflowing.
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As for me and my faithful helpmeet, after our long years of labor in behalf of the progress of humanity during which we fought the good fight, nothing remains but for us to withdraw…immediately, in order to make the supreme sacrifice which no one demands of us but which we will carry out even so

Eugene Ionesco, Plays: Volume 1. Calder and Boyars, pp.157-8.

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