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Medium is actually theater.
A girl a did a monologue at our school's one acts a few years ago. I think she said the character's name was Ellen, but I'm not sure. Anyway, the character nearly died while being born (I think the umbilical (sp?) chord nearly strangled her) but came out alive. Her mother was glad, saying that if the girl had died, she would have killed herself. The girl and her mother had a very good relatonship when she was very young, but then the mother had an affair and her parents separated. I think the mother ran off, but I'm not totally certain. The girl lived with her father, but she ran away, with no protest from ther father, intending to kill her mother, then kill herself. Several references were made to the poem/song "Ring Around the Rosie."
Yeah, it's pretty disturbing. Anyway, I'm not sure how familiar the average troper is with theater, but I've always wanted to know what on earth the context of that monologue was. Does anyone know what play it might have been from?