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START: I’ll tell you what I don’t want....

Michael Carney

The Ferryman

Jez Butterworth

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Late Teen
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 3
Time & Place
The kitchen in the Carney’s farmhouse, rural Armagh, 1981
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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START: I’ll tell you what I don’t want. I don’t want to watch the door while a Catholic boy gets hammered. I don’t want to wear that boy’s cross round my neck, show it off to people like a prize.

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END: I don’t want to get shot in the back of the head for something I probably never did, and spend ten years face-down in a bog in the middle of nowhere while my wife and child sit waiting, hoping, praying for me to come home. If that’s the road to justice you can f#&king bangle it.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Jez Butterworth, The Ferryman, NHB Modern Plays, 2017, pp. 115-6.

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