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Teaching Playwriting in Schools - Center Stage

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I don’t believe it.<br />

M<strong>in</strong>d your own damn bus<strong>in</strong>ess.<br />

I hate that dog.<br />

They don’t really give you a chance.<br />

Third night <strong>in</strong> a row.<br />

Are you ever go<strong>in</strong>g to change?<br />

Red ones, blue ones, and sh<strong>in</strong>y green ones.<br />

I found these <strong>in</strong> your pocket.<br />

Stop bother<strong>in</strong>g me.<br />

Do you m<strong>in</strong>d if I jo<strong>in</strong> you?<br />

First l<strong>in</strong>es from plays already written:<br />

First l<strong>in</strong>es from novels:<br />

Yes, I have tricks <strong>in</strong> my pocket. (Glass Menagerie, Williams)<br />

Troy, you ought to stop that ly<strong>in</strong>g. (Fences, Wilson)<br />

What do you want? (Ghosts, Ibsen)<br />

Dark phases of womanhood of never hav<strong>in</strong> been a girl. (For Colored Girls, Shange)<br />

Elli, Elli, dear do come out. It’s so lovely. (Private Lives, Coward)<br />

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. (A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens)<br />

Call me, Ishmael. (Moby Dick, Melville)<br />

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. (The Stranger, Camus)<br />

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