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Monologue Mania Day# 347 by Janet S. Tiger Jan.
25, 2015
Butterfly Net Fantasies
(The actor enters, dressed casually, shorts,
a sun hat and carrying....a large butterfly net, waving it around, happy)
Oh, hello! You must be the reporter they told me
about! How are you! I'm doing just fine......oooh, mustn't let that
get away.....
(Leaps to
capture something in the net, examines it, listening closely)
That was a fine one! It was sometime in my youth,
this memory, here, when I scored the winning run and everyone was cheering for
me!
(Spots something
else, chases it, hard to capture this one)
I just hate to lose this one again! It's one of my
most frightening ones......the monster under the bed! And it was as
elusive under the bed as it is now! Hold on....
(Races to catch,
dives, shakes head)
Always just out of reach! I was never able to
actually see the horrible thing that dwelled so close to me and my dear teddys,
but it was always there, I just knew it! So close, so terrifying, and
now.....I have to search it out further....
(Gets up slowly, dusts off)
As a writer, I'm sure you understand why I do
this......this is how I have written all my books, I used to keep this a
secret, but I am getting older, and I wanted to share....and now you can
capture my method so that others can take advantage of it.....of course, if I
wasn’t a successful author, I would be in a looney bin, but money does give you
choices!
(Sees something, runs to it)
.....and so, you see, I watch for the elusive butterflies of, not just
love, but all life. Friendship, pain, joy, sorrow, the pen your father
gave you when you graduated, that fell on the floor and you could never find,
even when you moved.
(Waves the net, puts
ear inside)
The sound of the car door when you left on vacation, and
the sound when you got in the car to come home....
(Waves the net, closes
eyes)
The person you loved and lost and yet remember exactly
how they looked the moment you first met them..... All of the memories that
make up a book, a movie, anything we create.
(Listens)
Why do I use this net? Well, it's simple! The
memories are easier to catch this way!
(Turns to exit, stops, looks back)
This is for the swimming memories!
(Reaches into
pocket and pulls out a tiny scooping net for fish, runs off, laughing, never the end
of the memories, you just have to know where to find them)
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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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