Monologues
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When Will I Stop Dying?
Monologue for adult male or female
Setting: one spotlight, one chair, empty stage
Description: An exploration of the feelings, regrets and abject confusion about the time, between living and dying.
53 Turns
Monologue for adult male
Setting: a patient’s room in a rehab facility
Description: A lesson in humanity. A world-weary male nurse speaks of his conflicted relationship with a once very successful Holocaust Survivor, now paralyzed and in his charge.
Blood on the Bagel
Monologue for adult female, 60’s+
Setting: an interrogation room in a police station
Description: A wealthy, former Opera singer recounts the story of her harrowing experience with breakfast at her usual haunt. Like Lady Macbeth, she is absolutely sure of the manifestation of blood on her morning bagel.
Eichenstern, the Picker
Monologue for adult female
Setting: an apple orchard in Florida
Description: A woman, disappointed and depressed by the curve-balls life has thrown her, uproots her current existence to explore a new state and a new peculiar job. An unexpected friendship rekindles a light in her heart that she was sure had gone dark, for good.
Son of a Fish
Monologue for adult male 30’s
Setting: a chair, anywhere
Description: A once drug-addicted son speaks to the fractured emotional dynamics of his working-class family. The early-onset Alzheimer’s of his mother, and her now unbridled affection for him creates a raging competition between father and son. Yet, long-ago memories of better moments emerge to haunt his heart.
140 Days
Monologue for adult male or female, mid 20’s+
Setting: person’s home
Description: Driving to work, one has the unfortunate timing of witnessing a crime in the vehicle next to them. No good deed goes unpunished.
Suddenly It's Spring
Monologue for adult female, 40’s
Setting: a personal desk at home
Description: A tale of the stunning energetic roller-coaster of limerence, and the heart’s denial when love’s hope is incrementally diminished.
Beverly's Bones
Monologue for young female, adolescent or teenager
Setting: young female's bedroom at Halloween
Description: A dark and horrific tale of one terrifying child, to her sister, Beverly.
On Second Thought
Monologue for adult female, 30s-40’s
Setting: a high-rise rooftop in New York City
Description: Stricken by love for a queer narcissist, who has encouraged, and then discouraged their relationship for years, a woman wrestles with the decision of whether
to throw the tormenting object of her desire off of a city roof, or to let him go.