Saturday, November 15, 2014

Monologue Mania Day #276 by Janet S. Tiger Jigsaw 2 Nov. 15, 2014

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Monologue Mania Day #276 by Janet S. Tiger Jigsaw 2 Nov. 15, 2014 
Note - This can be done by itself, or with Day # 275

Special Note -  A selection of these monologues is being performed this weekend at the AARP Souther Oregon Conference - break a cane!  For more info see program below.

                                           Jigsaw 2 (a few years later)
                                      A monologue by Janet S. Tiger   © all rights reserved
                                                             tigerteam1@gmail.com 

                (A  man walks onstage using a walker, he looks around, moves carefully.  All the while he has a scissors and is snipping at the air with them.   He stops, looks at the floor, goes to pick up the 'pieces')

I thought this would help, but now I don't know.  

                (He holds one of the 'pieces' up and looks at it)

Where did this one go?  I forget now......I forget so many things now.....

               (He removes a paper from his pocket and examines it, putting on his glasses, checking on the 'pieces' lying on the floor and the one in his hand.)
Did I get this wrong?  Did I ever do anything right?
              (He walks to a corner, trying to get very high off the ground and snips more, examines)

This is supposed to fit together somehow.....

             (He puts the 'pieces' in some order, stares)
That's my childhood, how beautiful it was.  My mother and father were not perfect, but they were good parents, I hope they know how much I loved them......Do we ever appreciate things until they're gone.....

            (He shuffles the pieces)

There's so much here......College days, friends......my first apartment......books I read, vacations, teachers......jobs....my first girlfriend......my first wife......

         (He cuts out a section, discards it)
I guess that's the end of her, right?
         (He leans down to pick up a piece)
My second wife.....who was also my first girlfriend...we met again after our divorces and suddenly, things were different......if I hadn't stopped for gas in that little town, would we have met again?

You never know what the future holds, which piece of the puzzle is coming next, or where it fits when you first see it.....

          (He now goes from one end of the stage to another, slowly examining all the parts, scrunching up some, unraveling others)

I mean, this is my life, right?  I've seen all these pieces before somehow...... And I get to figure it out......Only...it seems.... the pieces don't always fit.....sometimes it's a nightmare putting them together, a puzzle with the cover missing and too many curves thrown in, but sometimes.......
          (He suddenly stops, looks up and smiles)
But sometimes, for a minute..... they do.......

         (He whirls around quickly, catching himself on the walker before he falls)

I just love this dream! 

          (He turns to exit, stops, looks back, a little concerned)

This is still a dream, right?

           (He decides it is, laughs, and dances off the stage with his walker. Never the end of the puzzle)

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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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 Thank you Jeff and troupe for introducing my monologues to Oregon.......

Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts

Seniors on Stage: A Readers Theatre Acting Troupe

Monologue Mania - by Janet S. Tiger

The Joy of Sox - Rick Hazen

iPhones for Peace - Cat Healy

Out of the Stuffed Closet - Robbi McMinimy

Satellite Selfie - Catherine Heilman

Unplanned Obsolescence - Roy Harvey
Jeff Tabler Jeff is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts.

This is the Conservatory’s 16th year of operation. He graduated from the American Academy of

Dramatic Arts in New York and holds a degree in cinema from Ithaca College. He has been involved in

film and theatre for more than 35 years as a teacher, director, writer, producer, and actor. He also

teaches and directs for OCPA, and Seniors on Stage.

Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts: A comment from the director:  "As I grow older I realize that

many of our senior citizens have not only a lot of energy, but also the desire to keep active and pass

along their life experiences to others. Thus, the Southern Oregon Senior Theatre, now known as New

Stage Players, was born as part of the Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts, an organization that was

formed 15 years ago to teach youth about theatre. We have theatre camps for kids in the summer and

classes during the rest of the year. It is our intention to produce more senior theatre ranging from drama

and musicals to ten-minute and radio plays that will offer a unique opportunity to express views of seniors on

important issues, and simply for the pure entertainment value." - Jeff Tabler

Cat has performed with the Old Time Radio Players in Grants Pass for several years. She appeared as the

Bank Auditor in the Barnstormers production of It’s A Wonderful Life and portrayed an attorney

defending Max Cooper in OCPA’s production You’re The Jury. Cat has served for several years on the

Board of Directors for the Rogue Music Theatre and enjoys portraying character roles in little theatre

Robbi McMinimy

Robbi says it felt like coming home when she joined OCPA. She has participated in theater all her life and

loves being a part of it again. Robbi has done a little bit of everything on the stage including designing

lights, directing, stage management, and acting. Her favorite role to date was Hotlips in “Mash” and

looks forward to doing lots of new favorites with OCPA.

Catherine Heilman

Catherine comes to OCPA more than 50 years since her last stage appearance. Her interim acting

experience has been as a wife and mother. She is looking forward to learn more about acting and

performing with OCPA’s Seniors on Stage.

Roy moved to the Rogue Valley Manor with his Jimmie from Marin County in 2011. Born in England, he

is a mathematician and has worked in England, Canada and the Bay Area. He has appeared in various

shows over the past thirty years, especially musicals which include Over My Dead Body and played the

doctor in The Most Happy Fellow. He has been a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society for many

Rick is somewhat new to the world of theatre. He last performed on stage in the production of Mice and

Men at Randall Theater, and has performed in a couple of shows for Seniors on Stage. Rick has engaged

in occasional street-art performance including chalk art exhibits in Grants Pass and Medford. He also

teaches painting at his studio in Medford. On occasion you can find him playing stand-up bass with The

Old-Time Fiddlers.
  

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