You are as suspicious as if you had kegs full of gold at home, while from all appearances you don't remember when you had warm food last! You won't get anywhere that, way! To-night at the beggars' fair we shall meet at least half a dozen circus managers. They gather there to look for artists to appear with them. Then you will see, you poor devil, how they will contend for me and how one will outbid the other! Thank God, I am not so unknown as you, you gutter singers! And if I get my job again, I shall have horses enough for your merry boy to break his neck the first day, if he has the mind! (THE KING: Tell me, brother, does one find theatre managers too at the beggars' fair?) Theatre managers too, certainly. The theatre managers come there from all over the country. Where else would they get their dancers and their clowns! Frankly, brother, it seems very doubtful to me your getting an engagement. You don't look as if you could act a farce. (THE KING: But there is a higher art, called tragedy!) Tragedy, yes, I have heard that name!----I understand nothing about that art, dear brother. I only know that it is miserable poor pay.----((To Alma.)) Now, my brave lad, doesn't your mouth water for better fodder?----Do you want to learn circus riding with me?

The Circus Rider Monologue from Such is Life: A Play in Five Acts

Rehearse The Circus Rider's monologue