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A Piece of Monologue

Programme Outline

In A Piece Of Monologue a speaker tells a fragment of a story about birth and death.

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00.38

SPEAKER: Birth was the death of him.

 

 

03.45

SPEAKER: …stands facing blank wall. Covered with pictures once.

 

 

09.40

SPEAKER: Birth. Then slow fade up of a faint storm. Out of the dark.

 

 

15.45

SPEAKER: Stare beyond through rift in dark to other dark. Further dark.

 

 

18.10

SPEAKER: The dead and gone. The dying and the going. From the word go. The word begone. Such as the light going now. Beginning to go.