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START: A desperate situation has befalle...

Quinn Carney

The Ferryman

Jez Butterworth

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
The kitchen in the Carney farmhouse, rural Armagh, 1981
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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START: A desperate situation has befallen us. For the first time in the history of this family, the harvest goose has done one.

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END: Which drowsy, half-asleep turnip wandered out this morning, fed the bugger, and sauntered off leaving the pen wide open, allowing a painstakingly fattened fowl to wander off and begin life as one of God’s wild creatures. Come on. Who’s man enough to step forward?

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Jez Butterworth, The Ferryman, NHB Modern Plays, 2017, pp. 42-3.

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