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Oh, well, I reckon what it was was when...

Popeye Jackson

The Miss Firecracker Contest

Beth Henley

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene 2
Time & Place
A dressing room, fairgrounds, Brookhaven, Mississippi, 1980s.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Oh, well, I reckon what it was was when I was sewing up there in the front at the big store. This little child walked in…

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I told her what happened and that’s when she give me the news, “Popeye, you’re fired.”

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Henley, Beth, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Dramatists Play Service, 1985, pp. 56-57.

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