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Note: A few words about 'free' - all these monologues are protected under copyright law and are free to read, free to perform and video as long as no money is charged. Once you charge admission or a donation, or include my work in an anthology, you need to contact me for royalty info.
If you just started this blog and want to read the earlier monologues, please
scroll down for the previous days or go to http://www.monologuestore.com/ -click on the Monologue Mania button please scroll down.
To start at the beginning - Feb. 13, - click here.
For a list of the blurbs from each day, click here
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Note- this was originally started in May 2009, the male version is on Day # 325. These two can be performed together, as a duo - very effective when the lines are said mostly separately, then joined for some of the lines, especially at the end.
The First Time (male)
©Janet S. Tiger all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(A man comes out onstage.)
The first
time....
The first time
you breathe.
The first time
you know it's your mother smiling at you.
The first time
you eat something very delicious.
The first time
you walk, the first time you run....
The first time
you want to hurt someone
The first time
you realize you would die to save your Mom.
The first time
you are very mad at your Mom.
The first
time....you're afraid.
The first time
you go to school.
The first time
you have to be so bored that you could jump out a window.
The first time
you get in trouble and go to the principal's office.
The first time
your Dad is really mad at you because you got in trouble.
The first time
you make a friend.
The first time
you realize that friend likes the same girl you do....and neither one of you
goes out with her and you are still friends.
The first time
you drive...the first time you drive really fast! ....the first time you hit something and you
have to fix it with your buddy so your parents don't find out...but they do.
The first time
you have to pay your own insurance.
The first time
you camp out under the stars and go fishing.
The first time
you find out that you really like to build things.
The first time
you get drunk.
The first
time.....you do it.
The first time
you do it ....with a girl.
The first
time...you are very scared she could be pregnant.
The first time
you are REALLY relieved someone isn't pregnant.
The first time
you graduate.
The first time
you fall in love,,,,,,,
The first time
you really get hurt and you stay in your apartment for days and eat delivery pizza and don't
shave and don't recognize yourself in the mirror.
The first time
you really hate someone.
The first
time....(slowly) .you hurt someone.
The first time
you realize you did something really bad and you can't fix it.
The first time
you ..(hard to say this) ...cry....
The first time
you stop getting drunk to ease the pain because the pain is gone.
The first time
you get a job.
The first time
you see someone walking down the street and she is so beautiful and you know
this is the woman you are going to spend your whole life with
The first time
you get married....
The first time
she gets pregnant ......the first time she has a miscarriage.
The first time
you are really relieved when she is pregnant - and she has your son, and you
see him and something happens inside and you are never the same and for the
first time you know how much your father loved you even if he never told you.
The first time
you....say I love to your son.
The first
time.....you realize your kids are grown.
The first time
you retire.
The first time
your wife almost kills you because you're driving her crazy so you get a hobby
that you really love.
The first time
you lose someone you love.
The first
time....you realize someone you loved is never gone.
The first time
you forget something....
The first time
you get that pain in your chest that feels like an elephant is sitting on
you....
The first time
you realize that everything you know is ....nothing.
The first time
you see your grandchild and …..you see your grandchild graduate.
The first time
you .....I'm sorry I can't remember this line.....I do know I am so
tired....really tired.....of saying 'the first time'
(Starts to walk
off, looks back)
Now I remember….
The first
time......you die.
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Janet S. Tiger
858-736-6315
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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