Monologue

Savoyard Monologue from Fanny's First Play

From Fanny's First Play by Bernard Shaw

male · comedic · 1:39 min

Well, let me see. As you dont like English people, I dont know that youll get on with Trotter, because hes thoroughly English: never happy except when hes in Paris, and speaks French so unnecessarily well that everybody there spots him as an Englishman the moment he opens his mouth. Very witty and all that. Pretends to turn up his nose at the theatre and says people make too much fuss about art (the Count is extremely indignant). But thats only his modesty, because art is his own line, you understand. Mind you dont chaff him about Aristotle. (THE COUNT: Why should I chaff him about Aristotle?) Well, I dont know; but its one of the recognized ways of chaffing him. However, youll get on with him all right: hes a man of the world and a man of sense. The one youll have to be careful about is Vaughan. (THE COUNT: In what way, may I ask?) Well, Vaughan has no sense of humor; and if you joke with him he'll think youre insulting him on purpose. Mind: it's not that he doesnt see a joke: he does; and it hurts him. A comedy scene makes him sore all over: he goes away black and blue, and pitches into the play for all hes worth.

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