Pegeen Monologue from The Playboy of the Western World

From The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

female · dark · 1:29 min

It’s bona fides by the road they are, but that lot came over the river lepping the stones. It’s not three perches when you go like that, and I was down this morning looking on the papers the post-boy does have in his bag. ((With meaning and emphasis.)) For there was great news this day, Christopher Mahon. ((She goes into room left.)) (CHRISTY: suspiciously. —Is it news of my murder?) inside. —Murder, indeed. (CHRISTY: loudly. —A murdered da?) (coming in again and crossing right.) —There was not, but a story filled half a page of the hanging of a man. Ah, that should be a fearful end, young fellow, and it worst of all for a man who destroyed his da, for the like of him would get small mercies, and when it’s dead he is, they’d put him in a narrow grave, with cheap sacking wrapping him round, and pour down quicklime on his head, the way you’d see a woman pouring any frish-frash from a cup.

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