3 Best Dancer Monologues

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Thirst (Dancer)

Category: Play Role: Dancer From: Thirst

Dancer says

He did not escape. He is dead!

Yes. He was on the bridge. I can remember seeing his face as he stood in under a lamp. It was pale and drawn like the face of a dead man. His eyes, too, seemed dead. He shouted some orders in a thin, trembling voice. No one paid any attention to him. And then he shot himself.

I saw the flash, and heard the report above all the screams of the drowning. Someone grasped me the arm and I heard a hoarse voice shouting in my ear.

Then I fainted.

Thirst (Dancer)

Category: Play Role: Dancer From: Thirst

Dancer says

He was kind and brave to me. He meant well. Yet I wish now he had let me die.

I would have been way down in the cold green water. I would have been sleeping, coldly sleeping. While now my brain is scorched with sun-fire and dream-fire. And I am going mad. Your eyes shine with a wild flame at times–and that sailor’s are horrible with strangeness–and mine see great drops of blood that dance upon the sea. Yes, we are all mad.

God! Oh God! Must this be the end of all? I was coming home, home after years of struggling, home to success and fame and money. And I must die out here on a raft like a mad dog.

Thirst (Dancer)

Category: Play Role: Dancer From: Thirst

Dancer says

Look, you have stolen our water. You deserve to be killed. We will forget all that.

Look at this necklace. It was given to me an English duke–a nobleman. It is worth a thousand pounds–five thousand dollars. It will provide for you for the rest of your life. You need not be a sailor any more. You need never work at all any more.

Do you understand what that means? That water that you stole–well, I will give you this necklace–they are all real diamonds, you know–five thousand dollars–for that water.

You need not give me all of it. I am not unreasonable. You may keep some for yourself. I would not have you die. I want just enough for myself and my friend–to keep us alive until we reach some island. My lips are cracked with heat! My head is bursting!

Here, take the necklace. It is yours.