Monologue

Mary Monologue from TRADITION

From TRADITION by GEORGE MIDDLETON

female · defiant · 1:24 min

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Oh, don't go any further. I know all that. But I don't care how I look off the stage if only I can grow beautiful on it. I'll create with so much inner power and beauty that people will forget how I look and only see what I think and feel. I can do it; I have done it; I've made audiences feel and even got my "notice" because the stage-manager said I was "too natural." Helen Safford--what's she? A professional beauty with everything outside and nothing in. You think of her eyes, her mouth, and her profile; but does she touch you so you remember? I know her work. Wait till I get a chance to play a scene with her--which they may give me because I'm not good-looking--I'll make them forget she's on the stage the first ten minutes--yes, and you and Ben, too, if you'll come. Helen Safford? Huh! Why, people will remember me when she's only a lithograph.

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Mary expresses her desire to be recognized for her inner beauty and talent on stage, contrasting herself with a more traditionally beautiful actress, Helen Safford, whom she believes lacks depth.

20s · determination · identity · ambition · power · beauty

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