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A, B, and C are all the same woman, at differing stages of her life. The younger C has been growing increasingly more disturbed by the older women’s stories of her future life. She simply cannot believe that she will turn into them and she retreats into denial. Her rejection of her older selves sparks a final debate about when a person experiences true happiness. Each woman offers their opinion on the pursuit of happiness. A’s final monologue is delivered out to the audience.
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Start: C: (To A; slowly, with great emphasis, but no anger) I...will...not...become...you. I will not. I...I deny you.
A (Mildly amused) Oh? Yes? You deny me?
(To them all)
Yes? You all deny me?
[... ...]
End: A: 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.
Edward Albee, “Three Tall Women” in The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Vol. 3, Overlook Duckworth, 2008, pp.382-4.
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