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Monologue Mania Day #493 by Janet S. Tiger June 20, 2015
Monologue Mania Day #493 by Janet S. Tiger June 20, 2015
Olivia's Audition
(from An Oscar for Olivia)
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved 2015 tigerteam1@gmail.com
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved 2015 tigerteam1@gmail.com
This is from a movie that I will finish one day, featuring an older actress, Olivia, who, in this scene, is trying out for the part of Juliet.
The auditions drag on – lots of good, not-so-good, and
then…Olivia. When she walks onstage,
some people laugh. The producer gets up
and yells – as if to a deaf person – ‘the audition time for the Nurse is at
2PM!’
Olivia yells back that she knows.
He asks why she is yelling. She
says that she thought he was deaf.
Not a good way to start an audition. He tells her that he is looking for an age
appropriate Juliet, and that there is no chance that she will ever get the
part, that she is wasting his time!
And now she tells him- (as the others slowly stop talking to
listen to her until the theater is quiet except for her voice)
I understand that you are a busy, busy man, Mr. Russell... and I can appreciate
that. For forty years I was a very busy
woman. I taught high school drama to
thousands of students, and did two plays a year, every year, comedies, dramas and musicals starring casts of young people who had little to no experience.......always with at least one actor who developed a cold or broke a leg two days before opening night.......and I was busy taking care of
my mother who has been sick since I was nineteen.
And when my mother died six months ago I was busy with that.
I was busy with her funeral, and her friends, and with her estate
and with my grief….and figuring out what to do with all her things and how to
live the rest of my life.
Well, Martin Luther King and all these girls here today aren’t the only ones who have dreams –
I have a dream, too. And I decided that
it was time to follow my dream. And so I
got onto a bus, and came here and I know that - according to your arbitrary,
antiquated ageist ideas – I am too old to play (she says it with reverence) Juliet – but….just once in my life, I want to
stand on a stage and read the greatest female part in the written language of
English to an audience over the age of 18.
(She pauses to let this sink in)
So, will you please give me that brief pleasure, Mr. Russell?”
(Lights on Mr. Russell - spoiler alert - she gets to do the audition)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
JanetSTigerMonologueMania.blogspot.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-83
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