Eugene Marchbanks Monologue from Candida

From Candida by George Bernard Shaw

male · dramatic · 1:13 min

You think because I shrink from being brutally handled—because I can do nothing but cry with rage when I am met with violence—because I can't lift a heavy trunk down from the top of a cab like you—because I can't fight you for your wife as a navvy would: all that makes you think that I'm afraid of you. But you're wrong. If I haven't got what you call British pluck, I haven't British cowardice either: I'm not afraid of a clergyman's ideas. I'll fight your ideas. I'll rescue her from her slavery to them: I'll pit my own ideas against them. You are driving me out of the house because you daren't let her choose between your ideas and mine. You are afraid to let me see her again. Let me alone, I say. I'm going. George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898.

Rehearse Eugene Marchbanks's monologue

Run it out loud with a spotlight that follows your voice, line by line, until it's off the page. Free to start, no credit card.

Rehearse free Get started free