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Mania Day #292 by Janet S. Tiger Hooked Dec. 1, 2014 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.
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Hooked
(adapted from Senses of Dance)
A monologue by Janet S.
Tiger © all rights reserved
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(A woman comes onstage. She is covered to her feet with a long sheet or bathrobe)
Hooked. Such a funny word with so many different meanings. I had friends who were hooked on all kinds of drugs. Some died because of it. Some still are hooked. But there are many things you can get hooked on........drugs, booze, chocolate......
(She whirls around the stage, the covering swirling around her.)
It's
funny how I got hooked.... I had friend,
Natalie. We lived next door to each
other and I did everything she did. Now Natalie
never stayed with anything too long, so if she wanted to make
puppets, fine.. (Smiles) …and there was
the cooking class - we smoked out the whole rec center!
But then….Natalie got a bug up her......(clears
throat) to do.......(says it with derision) ballet and I did not want to go.
See, I was a skinny kid, and when I turned sideways, those leotards made
me look like an exclamation point! I
begged my mother for a tutu because at least I would have some visible sign of being a living human
being.
Her
words (Mimics mother) - "You girls never last in these classes! Why should I spend a million dollars on a
tutu that you will not need in six weeks?" (Back to herself) So, I dragged my tutu-less
self to that first class with Natalie, and I was prepared for weeks of not only
boredom, but total embarrassment....and then we walked into Madame Balon's
studio.....
(She is back in the class)
....It was upstairs....and I walked
through that door and...(she takes a deep breath)....it smelled funny.
Natalie even made a 'eww' sound, and we
went into the room with all the mirrors and there was Madame Balon. She was old, and her face was wrinkly, and
she was wearing the exact same tutu that I wanted.
So
I hated it - I figured it was going to
be a long six weeks. Then she
talked. Boy, can adults talk for a long
time. When she finished, she turned on
some music....(hears the music in her head) ...and then...she started to
dance. (She starts to move across the
floor) That was it for me.....because it
wasn't dancing, it was flying! It was
the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and I wanted to do it, too!
I
was ..... home. The smell of the place, and the mirrors and
the floors, and the people...and Madame....
I'd
never felt like that before...even in my own house!
(Laughs) Natalie hated ballet -she did not even last
one week! But I did.....
(She removes the covering and we see her in a tutu, she starts to whirl around the stage, punctuating the words with motion)
And now, I see
it like this - it was that…. ballet helps me last. It helped me
…….when Billy didn’t ask me to that dance in 7th grade….when
Billy asked Natalie to that dance in 7th grade…..through all the
math classes I hate….(quiet)….through my parents divorce...... through all the
problems, I come here and when I hear that music.....I am able to disappear
into me. And nothing else matters!
I will never forget what Madame Balon told
me that first day -you can expect many things from ballet - but most of all -your heart will be
happy!... if you get hooked....... ....!
(She
exits, dancing, never the end of the dance)
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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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