What You Took From Me
- Drama
- Monologue
- 2 min
- Male role
- Adult
- Advanced
Casting
5 lines- MOI Male role, Adult your role
Excerpt
MOI
You think you have ruined me. Look at me properly. The suit is the same, the shoes have a hole in them, and I am smiling. Nobody smiles like this when they are ruined.
You took the company. Take it. You took the house, the car, even the friends who, would you believe it, discovered they were terribly busy the day my account ran dry. Take all of that too. None of it was me.
What you cannot take is the one thing you ever really wanted: the respect people had for me and never had for you. It cannot be bought, it cannot be seized, it does not transfer by deed.
What you can do with it
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What Remains
Don’t say anything. Please. Not now, not in that voice. I spent years translating your silences. I’m tired of always being right too late.
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To Be, or Not to Be
To be, or not to be: that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
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O Rage, O Despair
O rage! O despair! O hateful old age! Have I then lived so long only for this disgrace?