In the Wake of Smoke
In the play script In the Wake of Smoke, Daphne releases a barrage of feeling to Morrison about how she needs to taste more life.
Featured Monologue – In the Wake of Smoke
DAPHNE: Where are the days of us breaking things, throwing things, grabbing each other, bashing it all against the silence?! I hate this place! It makes me sweat. Don’t you get it? It feels good to RELEASE this feeling of dread. To feel, to tear at another’s skin, and to damage them! I want to HOLLER!
Daphne holds her fists up into the air.
And CRUSH down on the Earth! This room. This dreadful SPACE. Suffocation. Weariness. Drought. We are in a drought, that’s it, a drought from lack of feeding ourselves the nutrition of existence. We have become polished! Look at ourselves, “Oh pass me the fk’g tea, dear…Oh be careful dear, careful you don’t fall down those fk’g stairs, now, dear”…methodical, economical, mindless sh’t! Not what we were. Get it? Now we’re formal and caged, we need the dust we were born into. We have etiquette and we have wealth, all that one desires, but we need the slums back, baby. You’re desperate for it! Desperate for the smell of ground, trains, poison, and smoke!! To rip out the guts of LIFE and BREATHE, BREATHE, BREATHE!!
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Monologue Summary
In the drama monologue In the Wake of Smoke, Daphne expresses her perspective of feeling trapped from how she used to live her life.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~1 Minute
- Monologue Character: Daphne
- Age Range: Any
- Themes: life, existence, needs / desire
- Best For: Female Dramatic Monologues
World of the Play
- Cast Size: 2 characters
- Characters in Play: Daphne, Morrison
- Time Period: Modern
- Synopsis: In this one-act ePlay, Daphne and Morrison come home after being out at the pub and Daphne is in a bitter rage over the fact that women keep talking to Morrison, and the fact that she thinks they aren’t getting as much out of life that they should be getting.
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Monologue Source: In the Wake of Smoke
In the Wake of Smoke is a drama one-act ePlay by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
