A View From The Bridge
Catherine monologue from A View From The Bridge
- Play
- Arthur Miller
- Women
- Playing age Teens–20s
- About 1:15
- Dramatic
Catherine’s monologue from the play A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller. A dramatic piece for women with a playing age of teens–20s, running about 1:15.
The full speech. Read it out loud twice before you start working it.
Catherine’s monologue
Don’t, don’t laugh at me! I’ve been here all my life. Every day I saw him when he left in the morning and when he came home at night. You think it’s so easy to turn around and say to a man he’s nothing to you no more? You don’t know – nobody knows! I’m not a baby, I know a lot more than people think I know.
Beatrice says to be a woman but – then, why don’t she be a woman! If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of going at him all the time! I can tell from a block away when he’s blue in the mind and just needs to talk to somebody quiet and nice. I can tell when he’s hungry or wants a beer before he even says anything. I know when his feet hurt him – I mean, I know him, and now I’m supposed to turn around and make a stranger out of him? I don’t know why I have to do that, I mean.
Excerpt for study and audition practice. Read the full play for context.
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About A View From The Bridge
- The play is set among Italian-American dockworkers in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
- The lawyer Alfieri narrates the story like a chorus in a Greek tragedy.
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