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Ellard's Utensil Lesson

from The Foreigner

Written by Larry Shue

A earnest, simple, helpful, slightly bewildered Ellard Simms's monologue from "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue. Genre: comedy.

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ELLARD SIMMS

Don’t tell me you’ve never seen a knife. Knife. That’s a knife. Use it to cut things. Cut things. (Mimes.) Like – ham. If we had some ham. Or bacon or sump’m. I can’t believe you don’t –… (Looks around for help. There is none.) Or butter. If we had some butter, you could use it to spread it on – … You don’t really need it. No, you don’t need it.…

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