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START: Larry: Why am I always the goddam...

Larry

The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
2
Time & Place
Michael’s Manhattan apartment. Late 1960s.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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START: Larry: Why am I always the goddamn villain in the piece! If I’m not thought of as a happy-home wrecker, I’m an impossible son of a bitch to live with!

[Harold: Guilt turns to hostility. Isn’t that right, Michael?

Michael: Go stick your tweezers in your cheek.]

Larry: I’m fed up to the teeth with everybody feeling so goddamn sorry for poor shat-upon Hank.

[... … …]

END: You gotta have it! It can’t work any other way. And the ones who swear their undying fidelity are lying. Most of them, anyway--ninety percent of them. They cheat on each other constantly and lie through their teeth. I’m sorry, I can’t be like that and it drives Hank up a wall.

Crowley, Mart, The Boys in the Band, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, pp. 111-113.

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