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Monologue Mania Day # 236 by Janet S. Tiger Oct. 6, 2014
Note- This started back in 2010, but I've expanded it now. It is part of HOW TO WRITE A MONOLOGUE IN 10 EASY LESSONS (Well, Maybe Not so Easy)
(The actor comes onstage, carrying a book, waving at the audience)
Thank you, thank you....you are very kind! Thank you all for being here tonight.
It's no secret that I love to read to adoring crowds!
(Deep breath) Secrets....I think that secrets are why everyone loves a good mystery. Life is a mystery. Life is full of secrets that, by their very nature, create mystery.
In what I read next, the hero confronts what is at the basis of his entire life....a secret that his family sowed and cultivated for years. This passage is one of the reasons I am a writer......
(Picks up the book and reads)
And now...now
that he’s dead, I’m sorry I never told him that I knew.
(The actor exits. End of scene)
Note- This started back in 2010, but I've expanded it now. It is part of HOW TO WRITE A MONOLOGUE IN 10 EASY LESSONS (Well, Maybe Not so Easy)
The Secret
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The actor comes onstage, carrying a book, waving at the audience)
Thank you, thank you....you are very kind! Thank you all for being here tonight.
It's no secret that I love to read to adoring crowds!
(Deep breath) Secrets....I think that secrets are why everyone loves a good mystery. Life is a mystery. Life is full of secrets that, by their very nature, create mystery.
In what I read next, the hero confronts what is at the basis of his entire life....a secret that his family sowed and cultivated for years. This passage is one of the reasons I am a writer......
(Picks up the book and reads)
When I was 5, I
heard a secret that changed my whole life.
Maybe I wasn’t five,
when I think about it, I may have been 6 or 7, but who cares? I was too young to understand everything, and
that’s what changed my life.
I was listening at
my parent’s door when they thought I was asleep.
Ok, they were
screaming. I hated when they
screamed. I didn’t have to listen at
their door – I could’ve been in the next house and heard them. Why did they do that? Did they want me to know these things?
They were talking
about getting a divorce.
It wasn’t just a
divorce, it was something worse. And it
took me years of therapy to figure out that I always knew in my heart........ that
something was very wrong between them.
And I never should have known.
And they didn’t want
anyone to know. Our family was built on this secret, on this foundation made of quicksand, and I spent a lifetime trying to crawl out....
Now that I think
about it, maybe..just maybe they did
want someone to know. Maybe it was cruel
what they did. No, not maybe. It was cruel.
So when I told Aunt
Mary, I was telling a secret, and I could never understand why she looked so
sad. I never admitted this to anyone,
but I guess I always knew why my father and Aunt Mary were so cold to me, and
why my Uncle Andy always treated me differently....so nicely......
Because I am his child. He and my mother.......(he shivers).....even now the thought makes me......disgusted. Angry. And most of all....so very, very sad.....
(The actor wipes eyes, closes the book, and turns to walk off, stops, looks back)
(The actor exits. End of scene)
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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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