Did you go and see? (FREDDY: I telephoned about it. I didn't want to wait in this blizzard.) I'm so sorry! (FREDDY: Me, too. But there's no help for it.) So long as she doesn't miss to-morrow night! Did I read you what she said about that, Freddy? (Takes letter from pocket.) "I'll pray for fair weather, so that I may get there to see the beautiful dancing. There is nothing in all the world that I love more... my whole being seems to flow into the dance. I send you the music of my Sunrise Dance, that father composed for me. You can learn it, and I'll do it for you. I don't know, of course; but father used to think that I was wonderful in it.. and he had known all the great dances in Europe. It was the last thing I heard him play, before he went out in the boat, and I saw him perish before my eyes." Don't you think that she writes beautifully, Freddy?

Ethel Monologue from The Naturewoman

Rehearse Ethel's monologue