Monologue

Price Monologue from Major Barbara

From Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw

male · dramatic · 40 sec

We're companions in misfortune, Rummy. Both on us got names that nobody cawnt pronounce. Consequently I'm Snobby and you're Rummy because Bill and Sally wasn't good enough for our parents. Such is life! (RUMMY: Who saved you, Mr. Price? Was it Major Barbara?) No: I come here on my own. I'm goin to be Bronterre O'Brien Price, the converted painter. I know wot they like. I'll tell em how I blasphemed and gambled and wopped my poor old mother-- RUMMY (shocked) Used you to beat your mother?

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