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Monologue Mania Day # 396 by Janet S. Tiger Pi Day (revised) March 15, 2015
Some readers wanted an expanded version of yesterday's monologue, so here it is. Please let me know if this is the improved version. Thanks! First monologue in this play was Day # 308
Pi Day (revised)
(for the play About Love and Math in the Time of Chemistry)
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The young man comes onstage - this time he has a circle made out of cardboard, he holds it up like at a concert)
This is a very special day......not only Albert Einstein's birthday, but it is Pi Day! Do you know how important Pi Day is? It is the representation, in calendar days, of the vitally important number 3.14159, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which is a constant!
(Listens, turns over the circle and shows that there is a happy face on the other side)
Is this better? (Smiles) So how can I make you see how important these numbers are?
(Paces for a moment, an idea hits)
Look, when I was about six, and school was really boring, so my Dad would give me extra work to do during class, so I wouldn't get into trouble. (Remembering) That was before he was killed. Wow, I haven't thought about this for awhile.......I think I was just up to division, and one night I asked him why was division necessary, and he showed me a few things about, you know, buying stuff and figuring out how much it cost, but that didn't interest me much.
So.....I'll never forget this.....he said, do you wanna see something about division that holds the universe together? Now that was interesting!
(He reaches into a pocket and removes a piece of rope, illustrating)
My Dad took out a string and used a cap from a jar to show me how the circumference of the circle divided by the diameter always equaled the same number. Every time. And that number was 3.14 - Pi. Did I understand? Yes, I did. Pi was a relationship between two different things - the outside of the circle, and the lines that held the circle together. And it never changed. It was always 3.14!
(Still in awe) Always. It was a constant. And that all you need to calculate the entire universe, is Pi to 39 places!
This was like bigger than all the cartoons my friends watched! It was huge! I think that's the day I fell in love with math. And my mother was listening and she said, that's a constant in math. A constant in your life, is that we will always love you. And then, she gave my Dad and me a piece of pie, apple pie, with ice cream on top. And that is another constant - always delicious!
(He stops, realizing he's gotten pretty intense, so he dials it back a notch)
Look, I know you have lots more to think about than numbers, and numbers make your head spin, but I love.....numbers......and I love....
(Gets a little nervous about saying the word, so he holds the circle by his chest and thumps it)
And I love.......that we are going to get to work together......on this Academic Decathlon........and this may not be Valentine's Day, but I think that Valentine's Day is very over-rated and people should not be celebrating emotional stuff by buying a lot of things.......but for God's sake, this is Pi Day! And without Pi, we wouldn't be here!
(Listens)
Is that all? Well, actually, I wanted to ask you something.......would you like, I mean, um......(getting very flustered)....would you consider going out with me?
(He leans in to listen to the answer)
Well, I was hoping we could go to get.....a piece of pie!
(Lights down. End of scene)
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The young man comes onstage - this time he has a circle made out of cardboard, he holds it up like at a concert)
This is a very special day......not only Albert Einstein's birthday, but it is Pi Day! Do you know how important Pi Day is? It is the representation, in calendar days, of the vitally important number 3.14159, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which is a constant!
(Listens, turns over the circle and shows that there is a happy face on the other side)
Is this better? (Smiles) So how can I make you see how important these numbers are?
(Paces for a moment, an idea hits)
Look, when I was about six, and school was really boring, so my Dad would give me extra work to do during class, so I wouldn't get into trouble. (Remembering) That was before he was killed. Wow, I haven't thought about this for awhile.......I think I was just up to division, and one night I asked him why was division necessary, and he showed me a few things about, you know, buying stuff and figuring out how much it cost, but that didn't interest me much.
So.....I'll never forget this.....he said, do you wanna see something about division that holds the universe together? Now that was interesting!
(He reaches into a pocket and removes a piece of rope, illustrating)
My Dad took out a string and used a cap from a jar to show me how the circumference of the circle divided by the diameter always equaled the same number. Every time. And that number was 3.14 - Pi. Did I understand? Yes, I did. Pi was a relationship between two different things - the outside of the circle, and the lines that held the circle together. And it never changed. It was always 3.14!
(Still in awe) Always. It was a constant. And that all you need to calculate the entire universe, is Pi to 39 places!
This was like bigger than all the cartoons my friends watched! It was huge! I think that's the day I fell in love with math. And my mother was listening and she said, that's a constant in math. A constant in your life, is that we will always love you. And then, she gave my Dad and me a piece of pie, apple pie, with ice cream on top. And that is another constant - always delicious!
(He stops, realizing he's gotten pretty intense, so he dials it back a notch)
Look, I know you have lots more to think about than numbers, and numbers make your head spin, but I love.....numbers......and I love....
(Gets a little nervous about saying the word, so he holds the circle by his chest and thumps it)
And I love.......that we are going to get to work together......on this Academic Decathlon........and this may not be Valentine's Day, but I think that Valentine's Day is very over-rated and people should not be celebrating emotional stuff by buying a lot of things.......but for God's sake, this is Pi Day! And without Pi, we wouldn't be here!
(Listens)
Is that all? Well, actually, I wanted to ask you something.......would you like, I mean, um......(getting very flustered)....would you consider going out with me?
(He leans in to listen to the answer)
Well, I was hoping we could go to get.....a piece of pie!
(Lights down. 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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