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The Tuna Fish Incident

from Laughing Wild

Written by Christopher Durang

Laughing Wild

A frustrated, exasperated, unhinged, observational Woman's monologue from "Laughing Wild" by Christopher Durang.

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I want to talk to you about life. It’s just too difficult to be alive, isn’t it, and try to function? There are all these people to deal with. I tried to buy a can of tuna fish in the supermarket, and there was this person standing right in front of where I wanted to reach out to get the tuna fish,

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CharactersWoman
Duration1-2 minutes
Age Range20s-50s
Genderfemale
Genrecomedy
PeriodContemporary
Formatmonologue
SourceLaughing Wild
Tonefrustrated, exasperated, unhinged, observational
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