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Monologue Mania Day #1004 by Janet S. Tiger (c) Nov. 12, 2016
Under the Mountain
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May 4, 2014 Day #81 Monologue Mania by Janet S. Tiger (c) 2014
Under the Mountain part 1 written Oct. 5, 2009 revised today
Part 2 will be tomorrow May 5, 2014
Under the Mountain part 1 written Oct. 5, 2009 revised today
Part 2 will be tomorrow May 5, 2014
Under the Mountain part 1
by Janet S. Tiger
© 2014 all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
© 2014 all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(A woman comes onstage. She is everywoman, dressed in a way that it is difficult to tell if she is from today's era or the past.)
(Thinking) Sometimes I feel as if I was part of one of those pioneer families. The ones who traveled in wagon trains with small children and no food and water and never complained.
The ones who settled the West! Only my group reminds me of the Donner party. Well, maybe not that bad......(pauses)...yet.
We have arrived at a large mountain.
(She indicates the size with her arms)
It is big, and on the other side is California.
We have a big decision to make. Do we go over the mountain? (She mimes climbing up.) It would be less mileage covered, but there are some big problems with this. We have horses, and small children - is there a safe path up - and down the other side?
Another option is to go around it.
(She walks around the stage.)
This would be easier than climbing, but it will be more miles, and winter is coming - will there be enough food? Enough time to get through the pass before rain or snow hits? Then there is the third (thinks about this word carefully) possibility.
We could tunnel through the mountain using dynamite - making a new route for anyone who follows us. Creating a path for others - and attaching our names to this so that we are immortalized forever.
(Throws her arms out wide to show that this is a serious goal. She slowly brings them down.)
Tunneling has its own series of....problems. First, we have no reliable geographical information so that we really don't know what will happen when the explosions rip through the layers of stone and rock. Next issue is that we don't really have a good navigational system to make sure we go straight through the mountain. And we have small children and horses - will we be able to shore up a tunnel safe enough to go through to the other side?
(Nodding a bit) Now my husband - this will probably not surprise anyone - he wants to go straight through the mountain. And, because he wants to, that is what we will be doing.
(Trying not to be angry - is she laughing a little?)
So, I guess we'll see you on the other side.
(She goes to walk offstage, then stops.)
There is just one other teeny, tiny, little problem ......... (she almost whispers) ..we don't have any dynamite.
(Listens to a voice offstage)
Coming dear.
(She reaches into her apron pocket, pulls out a wooden spoon, smiles at the audience - and exits.)
End part 1.
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Originally posted May 4, 2014 Day #81
Under the Mountain part 1 written Oct. 5, 2009 Part 2 is below from May 5, 2014 Can they work together, please let me know what you think!
Under the Mountain part 1 written Oct. 5, 2009 Part 2 is below from May 5, 2014 Can they work together, please let me know what you think!
------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 5, 2014 Day #81 Monologue Mania by Janet S. Tiger (c) 2014
(The woman returns. She is still dressed like a pioneer, but much more fashionably, one might even be impressed with the fancy shawl. She is holding a package wrapped in paper and string)
Remember how I told how we started digging through the mountain with a spoon?
The funny thing about doing something crazy is that sometimes, when you do that, crazy things keep happening.
See this spoon? Simple, wooden. There is no mistaking its purpose.
Yet if you were to take it, and really start trying to dig through a mountain, people would laugh.
Like everyone did when I said we could survive traveling to Europe – with no money.
Like taking a spoon and digging through a mountain.
Yet there really was a family that went across the country – and were at a mountain, and the husband and wife started fighting about which way was better.
The wife got so angry, she took the wooden spoon and started digging at the mountain for real.
The husband got furious – he yelled and screamed and the others tried to stop them fighting. It was not the most pleasant moment of the journey.
And then, one of the younger travelers- he had been to college, but dropped out to make his fortune in the great west – this young man looked at the spoon.
He took it from the woman and examined it, then he started to laugh.
Everyone thought he was crazier than the married couple.
But he just smiled at them and explained something he had learned in chemistry.
Chemical changes occur for different reasons – and the spoon had turned a turquoise blue for the probable reason that….the mountain was probably made mostly of copper ore…..They were rich…..all of them! They had found what we in Nevada call the Copper Spoon
Mine…….And now all they had to do was survive.
How true that is of all of us. We are all rich, we all have the chance to touch richness every day if we just pick up that wooden spoon! Challenge those who say you can't do it! Challenge yourself to do it! ...Challenge the mountain!......My children and I may have had no money, but we knew of our bounty, which was why we could go to Europe with no money – and never worry.
We toured 12 countries, ate like kings, had incredible adventures with princes and gypsies - and made friends we still have to this day.
So anytime you have the idea the mountain is too high – or the winter too cold, or the troubles too grand…….
(She opens the string and package to show the wooden spoon, now in a case like a valuable jewel)
………please take one of these….
(She starts to walk off, turns back.)
And give yourself a whack on the head until you remember what it’s all about!
(She smiles and exits. The end.)
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