Wooden Overcoats: Antigone in the Spotlight
RP sentence starters from Season 3, Episode 5, “Antigone in the Spotlight” from “Wooden Overcoats”. Feel free to change pronouns, etc. to better suit your muse(s)! TW for arson, death, mild sexual content.
“Quick, take these matches and copy of the script, go on and start a fire!”
“You’ve got nerve talking to me after what I saw in that dressing room.”
“You know, I actually thought you were my friend.”
“I should have listened to you.”
“As of that little incident just now, we are no longer on speaking terms.”
“If I could only travel back in time, I’d make sure we’d never started.”
“Look! This place has got coffee!”
“What’s wrong with live performance?”
“That’s not a table. That’s her coffin.”
“Are you sure it isn’t sacrilege? I haven’t got coasters.”
“She wanted to be present at the reading of her last play. That isn’t too much to ask, is it?”
“You make her sound like an egomaniac.”
“It’s the most ridiculous venture we’ve ever engaged in.”
“If this is our production, why is he starring in it?”
“There are no small parts, only bad ones.”
“The smoking hot, fit one from the circus?”
“Is she bringing the whip?”
“I think she’s here. An elephant’s just pulled up.”
“Who can’t sweep forty dead clowns under the carpet these days?”
“Her top hat was alarmingly jaunty.”
“Do you mind if I smoke?”
“I am doing this for my old friend, [name].”
“Though I run a circus, I will not tolerate clowning around.”
“I’m surprised they let us back in after last year.”
“He bellowed some fairly unholy language.”
“Where is the one they call, [Name]?”
“I was the Phantom of the Opera for a few weeks on Broadway.”
“Your anecdotes are wasting time.”
“She loves him but never told him.”
“You could tell the story in three minutes if they stopped being silly about it. All the talking is self-indulgent.”
“Now you’re an expert on the human condition?”
“Do you recall our parents ever speaking to each other?”
“What do you know about theatre, [name]?”
“It’s also a load of crap.”
“Together we shall make these dead words live!”
“That was strong work today and strong work deserves strong liquor.”
“I want her to pick me up and put me in her hat.”
“I don’t want to make it better; I want to do it as it is.”
“He didn’t offer to buy me a drink.”
“Do you want someone to rub your feet for a while?”
“I can’t believe I’m back so soon.”
“Yes, God moves in mysterious ways.”
“I should never have left.”
“There are some needs greater than any one man’s.”
“I believe she has something to say to you.”
“We haven’t even got a real car.”
“What if [Name] took his shirt off?”
“Whatever helps you out.”
“She can’t just walk into a room and get what she wants.”
“How can you possibly care about someone who can’t admit to what they want?”
“I’m running away to rejoin the circus.”
“I’m in charge! You have to do what I tell you or else!”
“I had to crush the coffee beans with my teeth.”
“We can cancel the show.”
“Let’s all put our heads together and devise a plausible excuse.”
“I could burn the theater down.”
“If you get caught, then we don’t know each other.”
“[Name], you’re not helping.”
“One must accept one’s limitations and avoid lost causes.”
“I was never meant to be in the scouts.”
“That was just ridiculous scheme in a long line of ridiculous schemes for a cause so lost it might as well be in another universe.”
“If anyone can do it properly, I can.”
“Can you see me and [Name] ever happening? I could.”
“Can you test me on my line?”
“It was too much, too late.”
“Between the two of us, we can do this.”
“This man - you want him. You want this man deeply, but he doesn’t know and he never can know.”
“Is this the day you step from the shade or will you forever be confined to the darkness?”
“Please tell me this wasn’t a mistake.”
“If things go proper pear shaped, I’ve got a plan. You give the word and I’ll hit the fire alarm.”
“I’ve been looking forward to this! I’ve heard its dreadful.”
“You’re girlfriend isn’t here?”
“I should really let you solve this.”
“What’s going on and why should I care?”
“If you’re here to kill me, can you do it now?”
“I am not here to harm you. In fact, quite the opposite.”
“The two of us have reached an understanding.”
“That’s quite a change of heart.”
“I read the whole thing again and again until I could see it through your eyes.”
“No one has ever dared to confront me the way you did.”
“Do not speak. Despite what i have said, you must not accept me.”
“For the sake of our art, you cannot accept me.”
“I offer you everything, yet you throw it away.”
“What the hell is going on?”
“It is everything you think and more.”
“I don’t know what’s happened!”
“I can’t handle anything else right now!”
“Couldn’t you lie to me, just for an evening?”
“I don’t have pity for you.”
“I am not angry. You were honest and I am honest.”
“No one could have done it better.”
“Why won’t anyone help me?”
“I think the chauffeur should be Scottish.”
“We need a plan… sort of… now.”
“I see, you’ve got some secret plan worked out to make it all better.”
“She’s difficult to root for.”
“Her life’s gone by. It’s kind of pathetic. I feel sorry for her more than anything.”
“Corruption in the media gets worse every day.”
“It really is you! And it really is me!”
“I feel like I’ve been wasting my time and if I told you why, I’d be wasting even more of my time.”
“I suppose all I have to say to you, ultimately, is that I have nothing to say to you.”
“Does someone have a tissue?”
“I would say we’re about equal now for embarrassing public performances.”
“Well, I suppose we’ve learned you can’t please all the people all the time, but you can please one of the people for three minutes of amateur theatre.”
“At the risk of always being the messenger, there’s someone over there who’d like a word with you.”
“I am sorry about the sprinklers.”
“You are never going to top that for an ending.”
“Maybe some things are better left unsaid.”
“The guys are going out for drinks… you wanna come?”
“I’d had enough drama for one night.”
