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monologue
Supernatural Comedy
1 Character

Lydia's Melodramatic Suicide Note

from Beetlejuice

Written by Warren Skaaren, Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson

Lydia Deetz, feeling isolated and betrayed by her parents, dramatically composes a suicide note. She expresses her frustration at being used as a pawn between the living and the dead before making a photocopy of her final message.

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LYDIA: I am alone.

[She looks at it and crumpling the paper, starts again]

LYDIA: I am utterly ... alone. You have sealed my fate wit

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CharactersLydia
Duration00:01:30
Age Rangeteen
Genderfemale
GenreSupernatural Comedy
PeriodContemporary
Formatmonologue
SourceBeetlejuice
ToneMelodramatic, angsty, darkly humorous
Suitable Fordrama school audition, self tape, general practice
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