Ruth - Administration



A Raisin in the Sun

Audition Monologues

Ruth

Cleburne Park? Mama, there ain’t no colored people living in Clybourne Park. Well—well—course I ain’t never been afraid mind you—but—well, well!—All I can say is if this my time in life—my time—to say goodbye to these cracking walls and these marching roaches and this cramped little closet which ain’t now or never was no kitchen then I say it loud and good, hallelujah and good-bye misery. . . I don’t never want to see your ugly face again.

Mama

You something new, boy. You come and Beneatha — talking about things we ain’t never even thought about hardly, me and your daddy. You ain’t satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don’t have to ride to work on the back of nobody’s streetcar—You my children—but how different we done become. Son—do you know your wife is expecting another baby. I think Ruth is thinking ‘bout getting rid of that child. Well? Well—son, I’m waiting to hear you be your father’s son. Be the man that he was.

Benetha:

Look at what the new world hath wrought! There he is-symbol of the rising class. Entrepreneur.

Did you dream of yachts on Lake Michigan brother? Did you see yourself on that Great Day sitting down at the Conference Table surrounded by all the mighty bald-headed men in America waiting on your pronouncements on industry?

I look at you and I see the final triumph of the stupidity in the world!

We are dead now. All the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes into this house. It’s all dead now.

Mrs. Johnson:

Ain’t it something how bad these here white folks is getting here in Chicago! Lord, getting so you think you right down in Mississippi! Course I thinks it’s wonderful how our folks keeps on pushing out. You hear some Negroes ‘round here talking ‘bout how they don’t go where they ain’t wanted and all that-but not me honey! Wilhemenia Othella Johnson goes anywhere, anytime she feels like it! Yes I do!

Walter Choice 1:

I laid in there on my back today, and I saw life just like it is. He who gets and he who don't get. It's all divided up between the takers and the tooken. And some of us are always being tooken. People like Willie never get tooken. You know why the rest of us do? Because we are mixed up. Always looking for the right and wrong of things. We worry and cry and stay up nights...trying to figure out what's right, what's wrong......while the takers are out there, just operating. Taking and taking.

Walter Choice 2:

What's the matter with you? I didn't make this world. It was handed to me exactly like it is. I want some yacht someday. What's wrong with that? And I want to put some pearls on my wife's neck. Tell me what man decides what woman should or shouldn't wear pearls? I tell you, I'm a man! I say I want her to wear it. I'll feel fine. I'll look in his eye. "All right, Mr. Charlie, Mr. Lindner. That's your neighborhood. You got a right to keep it that way. Just give me the money and it's yours."

George:

I know you love to talk and I don’t mind it sometimes…I want you to cut it out, see-the moody stuff, I mean. I don’t like it. You’re a nice looking girl…all over. That’s all you need honey, forget the atmosphere. Guys aren’t going to go for the atmosphere. They’re going to go for what they see. Be glad for that. Drop the Garbo routine. It doesn’t go with you. As for me, I want a nice simple sophisticated girl…not a poet.

Asagai:

I hope that when this is all over-that you come home with me. My dear young creature of the new world-I do not mean across the city-I mean across the ocean; home-to Africa. I will show you our mountains and our stars and teach you the old songs and the ways of our people-and. In time, we will pretend that you have only been away for a day. Say that you’ll come.

Linder (white male): I am sure that you are aware of the incidents which have happened in various parts of the city when colored people have moved into certain areas. We feel that most of the trouble in this world, when you come right down to it-most of the trouble exists because people just don’t sit down and talk to each other.

You’ve got to admit that a man…right or wrong…has the right to have their neighborhood a certain kind of way, and we think that it is better for the life of the community when everyone shares a common background. I assure you race prejudice does not enter into it.

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