Skip to main content
Six Degrees of Separation logo

Well… A substitute teacher out on Long...

Paul

Six Degrees of Separation

John Guare

Explore this monologue

Monologue Overview

Note: We are not able to display the full text for this monologue.

Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
The living room of a wealthy couple, New York City, 1990
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

More Monologues

Context

Text

Note: We are not able to display the full text for this monologue. However, to assist users who already have access to the script, starting and ending lines are presented below. Please visit our monologue database to find monologues that include text.

Well…

A substitute teacher out on Long Island was dropped from his job for fighting with a student. A few weeks later, the teacher returned to the classroom, shot the student unsuccessfully, held the class hostage, and then shot himself.

[...]

And it’s the worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself you put blindfolds on rather than deal with yourself…”

To face ourselves.

That’s the hard thing

The imagination, That’s God’s gift to make the act of self-examination bearable.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Guare, John, Six Degrees of Separation, Vintage Books, 1994, pp 31-34.

Videos

Sorry! We do not currently have videos for this guide.

Links

Sorry, we currently do not have content for this section.

Related Products

Related Articles

Related Learning Modules

All monologues are the property and copyright of their owners.

Monologues are presented on StageAgent for educational purposes only.