Burn This – Monologue (Pale)

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A monologue from the play by Lanford Wilson

PALE

G*ddamn this f***in place. How can anybody live in this sh*thole of a city? I’m not doin’ it. I’m not drivin’ my car in this g*ddamn sewer.

Every f***in’ time. Who are these a**holes? The f***in’ guy thinks he owns this space. Like the city’s got this space specially reserved just for him.

Twenty five f***in minutes I’m drivin around this garbage street; I pull up to this space, I look back, this baby sh*t-green Trans Am’s on my a** going beep-beep.

I get out, the f***er says “that’s my space” I showed him the f***in’ tire iron. You want this space? You’re gonna wake up found out you slept in your car.

This ain’t your f***in’ space if you treasure your pop up headlights. Am I right, or am I right. That sh*t? There’s no talkin’ to sh*t like that.

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BALD SOPRANO (MR. SMITH)	WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (Dr. RANCE)
THE SPOTTED MAN (EUGENE)	THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE (GEORGE)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (CHRIS)	ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (ROSENCRANTZ)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (JONATHAN)	ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (ALAN)
THE RELEASE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE (BRENT)	WOLF AT THE DOOR (GARTH)
THE ODD COUPLE (OSCAR 1)	ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (FRANCIS 1)
THE ODD COUPLE (OSCAR 2)	ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (FRANCIS 2)
THE COLORED MUSEUM (THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MISS ROJ)	PETER PAN GOES WRONG (CHRIS)
PETER PAN GOES WRONG (DENNIS)	PETER PAN GOES WRONG (ROBERT)
PETER PAN GOES WRONG (TREVOR)	FEIFFER'S PEOPLE (HIPPIE)
COCKEYED (PHIL)	COCKEYED (PHIL – 2)
GOD OF CARNAGE (ALAN 1)	GOD OF CARNAGE (ALAN 2)
GOD OF CARNAGE (MICHAEL)	BRIGHTON BEACH MEMORIES (EUGENE)
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (CHRISTY)	THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (PADRAIC)
MOJO (BABY)	GOD OF CARNAGE (MICHAEL 2)
BAD HABITS (HUGH)	THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO (FATHER DONNALLY)
I HATE HAMLET (ANDREW)	BOY'S LIFE (PHIL)
BURN THIS (PALE)	I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (HERB)
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (BARNEY)	LAUGHING WILD (A MAN)
THE MATCHMAKER (VANDERGELDER)	THE NERD (WILLUM)
OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA’S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I’M FEELIN’ SO SAD (JONATHAN)	THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (HARRY)
Hurt Village (Skillet)	LOOKING AGAIN (BILL)
PASTIME (CASEY)	NOISES OFF (LLOYD 1)
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (EUGENE 2)	NOISES OFF (LLOYD 2)
IT'S ONLY A PLAY (FRANK)	SEX LIVES OF OUR PARENTS (ELLIOT)
FORTINBRAS (FORTINBRAS)	GLORIA (SHAWN)
TANGO (STROMIL)	THE VERI**ON PLAY (LARS)
SAY DE KOONING (WILLIE)	APOSIOPESIS (MARCEL)
THE HUNTER’S MOON (SHEP)	THE TWO-MAN KIDNAPPING RULE (VINCENT)
THE TIGER AMONG US (PAO)	EDDIE MUNDO EDMUNDO (NYIN)
TROPICAL HEAT (ERIC)	Codger Talk (Bob)
DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA (ROBBY)	KODACHROME (ROBERT)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (MAN IN CHAIR 1)	PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (BLACK STACHE 1)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (MAN IN CHAIR 2)	PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (BLACK STACHE 2)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (MAN IN CHAIR 3)	My Fair Lady (Mr. Higgins)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (ADOLPHO)	The Man Who Came To Dinner (Beverly)
FEIFFER’S PEOPLE (BERNARD)	THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB WIFE (LEONARD)
POOR JOHN (JOHN)	THE PROFESSION (EUGENE)
ETA PHOENIX (GREG)	PYGMALION (DOOLITTLE 1)
FADING JOY (EDDIE)	PYGMALION (DOOLITTLE 2)
THE SPELLIN’ BEE	DINNER WITH FRIENDS (TOM)
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY (ADAM 1)	SAVAA (SPERANSKY)
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY (ADAM 2)	THE GOAL (SIR STEPHEN)
THE WORKER (MAN)	MOTHERF**ER WITH THE HAT (JACKIE)