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Start: You’re both such children. The ha...

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Three Tall Women

Edward Albee

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 2
Time & Place
A grand bedroom
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: You’re both such children. The happiest moment of all? Really? The happiest moment?
(To the audience now)
Coming to the end of it, I think, when all the waves cause the greatest woes to subside,
[... ...]
End: I was talking about...what: coming to the end of it; yes. So. There it is. You asked, after all. That’s the happiest moment.
(A looks to C and B, puts her hands out, takes theirs. Continued)
When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Edward Albee, “Three Tall Women” in The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Vol. 3, Overlook Duckworth, 2008, pp.383-4.

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