Daniele Alan-Carter's video: JACK from Enter THE NIGHT - Dramatic male monologue

Monologue from the play "Enter THE NIGHT" by the Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes'. Jack, who is a stage manager for a small theatre talks about the difficulties of dealing with the death of his partner, Joey, that has just died of AIDS. He’s sure he is HIV-positive himself, though tests indicate otherwise. "His family is being terrible. They didn’t want me to see him when he was dying. They didn’t want me to go to the funeral. They took all his things. Things I had given him. I didn’t want any of it. I just wanted the fur coat that used to be mine, and I didn’t want it anymore, and I’d given it to him because he loved it. That’s the only reason I wanted it, because he loved it. He loved to touch it. He loved to lie in bed wearing nothing but the coat. He loved the way it felt on his body. And that’s why I wanted it. Because having that coat would make me fee that I still had him. They thought I wanted it because it was valuable. It was an old coat. I wanted to get naked and wear it and feel him."