ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø

Start: Your Honor, ladies and gentleme...

Zoot Suit

The Press

See more monologues from Luis Valdez


Text

Start:

Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. What you have before you is a dilemma of our times. The City of Los Angeles is caught in the midst of the biggest, most terrifying crime wave in its history.

[... � …]

End:

The specific details of this murder are irrelevant before the overwhelming danger of the pachuco in our midst. I ask you to find these zoot-suited gangsters guilty of murder and to put them in the gas chamber where they belong.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit: A Bilingual Edition, Arte Público Press, 1992, pp.47-48.

All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. Monologues are presented on ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø for educational purposes only.

Videos

All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. Monologues are presented on ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø for educational purposes only.

More about this monologue