Dan Monologue from In the Shadow of the Glen

From In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

male · dark · 1:01 min

Let her walk round the like of Peggy Cavanagh below, and be begging money at the cross-road, or selling songs to the men. ((To Nora.)) Walk out now, Nora Burke, and it’s soon you’ll be getting old with that life, I’m telling you; it’s soon your teeth’ll be falling and your head’ll be the like of a bush where sheep do be leaping a gap. ((He pauses: she looks round at Micheal.)) (MICHEAL: There’s a fine Union below in Rathdrum.) The like of her would never go there.... It’s lonesome roads she’ll be going and hiding herself away till the end will come, and they find her stretched like a dead sheep with the frost on her, or the big spiders, maybe, and they putting their webs on her, in the butt of a ditch.

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