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Circle Theater Monologues
Circle Theater Monologues
#14
CHARLOTTE (Female: mezzo - age range: 35 45) p 81
How do you rate your husband as a man? I will give you an example. As a man, my husband
could be rated as a louse, a bastard, a conceited, puffed-up, adulterous egomaniac. He
constantly makes me do the most degrading, the most humiliating things... like...like... (sobs)
Oh, why do I put up with it? Why do I let him treat me like - like an intimidated corporal in his
regiment? Why? Ill tell you why I despise him! I hate him! ...I love him! Oh damn that woman!
May she rot forever in some infernal dressing room with lipstick of fire and scalding mascara!
Let every billboard in hell eternally announce: Desire Armfeldt.... in - in - in The Wild Duck!
#15
CHARLOTTE (Female: mezzo - age range: 35 45) p175-6
Oh, Mr. Egerman, how can I face you after that exhibition at dinner? Throwing myself at your
head! I m afraid it was just a charade. A failed charade! In my madness I thought I could make
my husband jealous. Im afraid marriage isnt one of the easier relationships, and Mr. Egerman,
for a woman its impossible! But for Men! Look at you - a man of an age when a woman is lucky
if a drunken alderman pinches her derriere at a village fete! And yet, you have managed to
acquire the youngest, prettiest . . . I hate you being happy. I hate anyone being happy!
#16
PETRA (Female: mezzo - age range: 1836) p35
Nobody rang. Doesnt your father want his tea? (coming up behind
Henrik, teasingly ruffling his hair) You smell of soap. Do those old
teachers take a scrubbing bush to you every morning and scrub you
down like a dray horse? (she strokes his ear) Oh what a wicked woman I
am! Ill go straight to hell! . Do you like the way, I walk? (he cant control
himself and clumsily kisses her and fumbles her breasts) Careful! (she
breaks away) Thats a new blouse! A whole weeks wages and the lace
extra! Poor little Henrik! Later! Youll soon get the knack of it!
#17
FREDRIKA (Female: mezzo - age range: 12-16) p25
Grandmother, you said I should just sit and watch? It sounds very
unklikely to me, but you said I should watch for the night to smile... you
said: the summer night smiles three times-the first for the young, like me,
that know nothing. The second for the fools - like my mother- that know
too little. And the third for the old--like you Grandmother- that know too
much! But WHY does it smile, Grandmother?