Monologue Mania Day # 736 Artist Statement by Janet S. Tiger Feb.18, 2016

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- for a whole year-and still going!

                                                                    first year -  Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015
                                                                                           second year -  Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2016 
   *********                                                         third year -  Feb. 13, 2016 -  today!
I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop, so if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.

If you just started this blog and want to read the earlier monologues-
     
     For a list of the titles and blurbs from each day, click here  There are now over 730!
 
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 If you'd like to write your own monologues, I happen to have a book for that -

            How to Write a Monologue in 10 Easy Lessons (Well, maybe not so easy)

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Monologue Mania Day # 736 Artist Statement by Janet S. Tiger Feb.18, 2016  

                                     Artist Statement  (c)
                            by Janet S. Tiger  (c) 2016 all rights reserved 
                                          tigerteam1@gmail.com

                (The applicant walks onstage and faces the panel. The artist is me.)

I am a playwright. But I am also a caregiver – for two people I love.

After my husband’s stroke in 2013, when I was caring for him at home (he was on a feeding tube) while simultaneously helping my then-88-year-old father move–I decided I needed help myself. 

I went into therapy. When the therapist asked what I did just for me, I said "I come to you".  She said something that changed my life, "One hour every two weeks is not enough."

Then she asked, "What else do you like to do?"  I said, "Write."  And I suddenly realized that although I had never stopped writing, I wasn't writing regularly.  So I started something I'd never done before – writing five minutes a day.  It was painful at first -I had to use a timer.  But something magical happened…..and I started a book, and then a  play...and then,  in February 2014, on the 35th anniversary of my grandmother’s death, I began this blog with the goal of writing one new monologue a day for a year.  Two years and 730 monologues later, I'm still writing a new monologue every day - and Caregivers Anonymous is a play-in-progress based on monologues from this ongoing project.

        (The applicant pauses, takes a deep breath.)

My plans? I keep writing.  When the moment is right, the next step will happen.  I am hoping the time is now.

        (She smiles and exits, hopefully not the end, but the beginning.)

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The above is part of a grant application - hoping it works!

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Janet S. Tiger    858-736-6315

JanetSTigerMonologueMania.blogspot.com

www.JanetSTiger.weebly.com

Member Dramatists Guild since 1983

Playwright-in-Residence

Swedenborg Hall 2006-8

* 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.