The Confession
- Classical
- Monologue
- 1 min
- No gender marker
- Young adult
- Advanced
Casting
3 lines- MOI No gender marker, Young adult your role
Excerpt
MOI
Must I confess it to you? My heart can no longer hide the turmoil your first glance plunged me into. I fought, believe me; I made a rampart of reason every day, and broke it every night.
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Honour and Heart
What! Am I thought beaten because I hold my tongue? You take for a confession what is nothing but contempt. Know that if I yield the floor a moment, it is not out of weakness, and still…
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The Departure
It is done. I have chosen. Let heaven be my judge. Too long I drifted between a duty and a vow, listening by turns to blood and to the heart, like a ship with no master between two…
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Remorse
You speak to me softly, and that voice is killing me; for a reproach that is shouted can be fought, argued with; but yours, so gentle, slips in and takes hold, and judges me the better for…