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Penny Dreadful : Seance Monologue

Monologue Vanessa Ives from Penny Dreadful (2014) Episode: Seance Creator and Executive producer: John Logan

MONOLOGUE

6/13/20241 min read

a group of people standing around a living room
a group of people standing around a living room

Father.Father, mine, let me come with you.What a ripping time we'll have.Let me come with you. It'll be an adventure.You'll teach me! I'll prove myself a proper explorer. Peter loves you, Father. But Father, if the porters go, how are we to survive?... I'm not frightened, I'm not. What an adventure. It's so green, so beautiful. But the porters are dying and I can't go on, I'm sick. Is it the dysentery? I'm bleeding. Oh God, I'm bleeding. I'm shitting blood now. I have no more clean trousers. I'm sorry.I'll stay at base camp.You go.Leave me. Will you name a mountain after me? Are you proud of me? Go! Goodbye. I'll see you soon, Father...Father.I'm Cold. (singing) Close the window, my true love and gently drops the rain.I have never had but one true love.

I am weak. I can't feel my hands.There's no water.I can't swallow. You knew I was dying didn't you, Father? Did you name a mountain after me?

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Oh! Amunet, girl? No, much older. Father, Mina's waiting. No! Shhh I wonder I wonder when was the moment you knew you wanted to take her? Why were you not more discrete? Vanessa heard you. The two of you. She heard you taking and she was curious.She walked closer, she rounded the corner and discovered you, the two of you, you know, taking, taking her coot. Vanessa saw that. You animal. You man. You animal. You man. You animal. Betrayer! Creature! I look into his eyes and they are red with blood like from Peter's arse. His lips are red like blood from her coot when you took her. His teeth are sharp like yours when you bit her coot and it's so cold and dark and wet like the jungle. Like tears, I am crying. I am so afraid, Father. Find me! Find me! Save me! Save me!