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Start: Oh don’t go. Maybe someone else...

George Spelvin

The Actor's Nightmare

Christopher Durang

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Young Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
An empty stage, present day
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: Oh don’t go. Maybe someone else will come out in a minute. Of course, sometimes people have soliloquies in Shakespeare. Let’s just wait a moment more and maybe someone will come.
[... … …]
End: Oh, good. Are you Ophelia? Get thee to a nunnery. (She points to the other garbage can, indicating he should get in) Get in? Okay. This must be one of those modern “Hamlets.”

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Christopher Durant, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor’s Nightmare, Dramatists Play Service, 1995, pp. 14-16.

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