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Monologue Mania Day #269 by Janet S. Tiger The Case of the Quivering Onions Nov. 8, 2014
(For more monologues from THE BOOK OF TEAS, please see Days # 15, 51, 52, 53, 69, 84, 96, 105, 118, 156, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178, 181, 184, 185)
The Miracle of the Quivering Onions
(for the Book of Teas as Onion Tea)
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
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(T comes onstage carrying a basket of onions. She still has a Southern accent)
I am so glad you have had this cry, my dear. Cryin is good for the soul - and the blood pressure, I believe. At least that's what I heard on one of those PBS shows.
And because onions represent tears, my momma once told me a story about onions that I think is appropriate for this situation.
This is when my momma was little, and her momma taught her how to plant onions, in case of an emergency. You see, if you can have onions and potatoes growin, you won't starve. Potatoes will keep you goin and onions keep you healthy as no germs like onions. With onions you can make an onion tea that will cure just about anythin'.......and when you cook potatoes with onions, you can actually have a delicious meal.......
Simple. Onions are simple. They are sturdy. Most animals don't like to eat them. You stick 'em in the ground, they grow, you get them up, put the root ball back in and they grow some more.
Member I said most animals don't like to eat onions? Well, that is true. Most people don't like their eyes to water, and it is the same for critters. Tears are very usually unwelcome. Yet what would life be like without tears? Without sad to make the happy even happier?
So her momma showed her how to protect the onions from onion maggots using some netting...and how to watch for thrips usin a piece of paper...... all useful knowledge that momma passed along to me of course.......which you, dear daughter, have refused to learn since you never liked to get your hands dirty, but that is another issue for another day.
So, the onions were growin up very nice.....
And then, one day, her momma said, let's go see how the onions are doin, and they went out and there was a whole field of onions! All happy, with the yellow tops stickin out, and my momma was jumpin up and down with happiness, and she asked her momma, 'now can we pick 'em?' and her momma said, 'it's time!' and just then, they looked and my momma said, 'what is that? Are the onions...quiverin?
(She takes a few of the onions and wiggles them)
And her momma looked, and they were! It was almost like they were alive.....like a miracle....the miracle of the quiverin onions........And as they watched, the onions quivered in a dance of what they would soon realize was a dance....of death.
For what had happened was a moment of true nature, the onions were not quiverin on their own, they were bein eaten from below....by gophers!
That's right, GOPHERS! But the moment was more than just nature, it was one of beauty, because the quiverin onions almost looked like they were dancin in the breeze, before they made their final bow, and were sucked down into the earth, never to dance - or quiver again.
(Listens)
Why did I tell you this story? Because, in the midst of all the beauty of the growin onions, there was something that neither person saw before or since. And it was beautiful - strange, but beautiful. And it marked the end of the onions......yet what was remembered of those onions is much more than any other onions we have seen or heard since.
And that is what you are facing now. Beauty, then loss......frozen in your brain like a field of quiverin' onions, tears and laughter all together....
(She turns to go, stops, looks back)
....... and you will remember these days long after the quiverin is over.......
(Blackout, 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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