Sunday, September 30, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1688 Resident Ghost (for the upcoming month of Halloween) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 30, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1687  To look at the other 1686 titles - click here
  first   year - Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016  fourth year Feb. 14, 2017-  Feb. 13, 2018  - now in year five - Feb. 14 - today!                 
I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop - if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
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Monologue Mania Day # 1688 Resident Ghost (for the upcoming month of Halloween) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 30, 2018

       (Designed as a fast filler between one-acts for Halloween)
                        Resident Ghost
                      a monologue  by Janet S. Tiger (c)  2018
                      tigerteam1@gmail.com   all rights reserved

        (Actor enters - dressed as a ghost, or maybe it is a ghost)

Are you asleep?  Deeply asleep?   Because I am the resident ghost of these premises and I am ready to haunt your dreams!  I will frighten and worry and make you shiver and....did I mention frighten?  Ok!

           (Looks in pocket)

Sorry, I think I forgot my rattling chains, but that's no problem, cue the creepy music please!  And don't forget the eerie wind whistling through the trees! 

          (Waits, shakes head)

What?  Still awake?  What is the afterworld coming to?  I mean between those cell phones and the Internet, it is not possible for a non-lawabiding spirit to make a living!

           (Turns to leave, stops, looks back at audience shakes finger menacingly)
         

For God's sake, get a sleeping pill!

            (Floats off - Happy dreams!)

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Saturday, September 29, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1687 M - tea (for Book of Teas) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 29, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1687  To look at the other 1686 titles - click here
  first   year - Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016  fourth year Feb. 14, 2017-  Feb. 13, 2018  - now in year five - Feb. 14 - today!                 
I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop - if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
Get  more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
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Monologue Mania Day # 1687 M - tea (for Book of Teas) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 29, 2018

         (For more from the Book of Teas, please see Days #  15, 51, 52, 53, 69, 84, 96, 105, 118, 156, 173, 175-8,181, 184-5, 269,331, 361, 452, 506,542, 554, 555, 558, 590,  624, 1633 , 1634  and today's 1867) 
 (This smaller section will go at the end of the monologue below- Par- tea)                     

          
                                     M - tea
                      a monologue  by Janet S. Tiger (c)  2018
                      tigerteam1@gmail.com   all rights reserved

      (T stops, then turns back, she will still have has Southern accent)

(Thinking)  You know, I just realized this moment is like another kind of tea - the the kind you have at the end of the party when there is nothin left in your cup.......please forgive me, but I think that is called......M- tea.......do you get it? M - tea.  All gone!  

             (She laughs at her own joke as the lights dim - really the end of scene)

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This below was first posted  Day # 1634 Par - tea ( -expanded- for Book of Teas) (c) Aug. 7, 2018

                                     Par -tea
                      a monologue  by Janet S. Tiger (c)  2018
                      tigerteam1@gmail.com   all rights reserved

      (The party is heard in the distance, and T walks out with her cane slowly onto the porch.  She listens for a moment, then closes the door behind her so the sounds are more muted and yes, she still has that Southern accent)

Party.  What a wonderful sound a party has......almost like a symphony.  Or an overture to a musical......it starts quiet......as the musicians warm up......and there are no guests yet, just you and family and friends and helpers gettin all the party things together.

The too much food, and too many drinks to prepare.  The decorations.  Almost as important as the food, but not quite.  The wind section......the strings.....then the guests start to arrive....and the percussion chimes in.....conversations begin, and the food is fresh, because no has taken those first bites.

The ones in the kitchen do not count of course......the children who sneak the lick of icing off the cake, and steal the pieces of meat from the cuttin board.  The dogs who somehow always manage to get underfoot and grab what falls below.

As I age not so gracefully, it somehow seems as if all the parties are meldin together....cannot recall my earliest because I was asleep.....my first remembered parties are as a little girl with the excitement of guests and eatin and more guests and more eatin......, then the ones of growin up, with young men, and all that brings.....followed by of course the biggest party - the weddin, and the the baby christenings and the assorted childrens gatherings, so different from the other side of the party - the makin rather than the takin......

And then, after the party, the goin over all the events, in detail, with the views of everyone talkin.....what did everyone eat?  who showed up? ....who met who, who likes who, what did they say?  What did they do?  The permutations are infinite!  Then the comparisons with other parties......and the parties become like markers in time......do you remember the party where Uncle Nat got drunk and went to the swimmin hole with no clothes?  ....and the get together when Jen and her boyfriend went off and came back engaged- right in the middle of the whole shebang.? ...the food that was made by lovin hands, the memories of the day forever seared into your brain ... just like the juices from a great steak!....(laughs) .. even though you can't recall what you ate for lunch last week!......

        (She looks around, seeing the other parties)

.......until, we age.....and the main issue of the party is will you get to the bathroom in time before you embarrass yourself.....or others......until......we don't care anymore....and we are sat near the bathroom just in case.....of a horrific accident that gives everyone somethin to talk about for many other parties.......

Funny how there can be such happy and such sad all in the same few hours......

So the parties continue.....Until we come full circle.....final party, asleep again I will be...

         (Sighs.  Stands with difficulty)

But .I do  hope there will be a lot of food.......

        (She laughs as she exits, picturing the event.  Lights dim.  End of scene)


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Swedenborg Hall 2006-8

    
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Friday, September 28, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1686 Friends by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 28, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1684  To look at the other 1683 titles - click here
  first   year - Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016  fourth year Feb. 14, 2017-  Feb. 13, 2018  - now in year five - Feb. 14 - today!                 
I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop - if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
Get  more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
If you'd like to write your own monologues, I happen to have a book for that -   
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Monologue Mania Day #  1686  Friends by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 28,  2018

For all my friends - new and old....... and not yet met!

                                                Friends (c)
                                                by Janet S. Tiger   
                                                (c) 2014 all rights reserved
                                                    tigerteam1@gmail.com

(A person runs onstage, keep running around wildly.  Bumps into walls and bounces off the floor.   Can be any or all sexes - this is to represent....an atom, right at a major moment in the history of the universe. The actor can have fun with this.  Runs, then slows a bit.)

Whoa!  What a ride!   Where am I?  I'm floating......

            (Drifts around the stage)

Look at all those other atoms......Hi!  Hi!

            (Waves wildly at one)

Oh, I remember you!  You were right next to me before that big bang.......was that something or what?

Yeah, me too, my head is still ringing.......

Wait, where are you going?

            (Listens)

I'm being whooshed off to someplace .....in some other galaxy far, far away. ........I forgot the name.....it's a weird one.....

            (Listens)

Yeah, that's it!  Earth something or other!

            (Listens)

No kidding!  You, too!

Well, I hope to see you there!

            (Waves wildly)

Have a good trip!

            (Waves again, slowly now, more sadly)

It'll be good to know someone from the 'hood......in 13 billion years!

            (Listens)

Oh, don't worry, we'll recognize each other!......
I think that's what they're gonna wonder about......how come some people seem more familiar than others, and they'll never know it's from..... this very moment.....

            (The atom bounces around a moment, then starts to exit.  Looks back)

I really do hope to see you there.......my friend....

            (The atom exits.  The beginning of....a friendship)
  
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 First posted  Apr. 16, 2014  Day # 63  Friends  Monologue Mania 
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Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1685 End Game (for Osculation) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 27, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1684  To look at the other 1683 titles - click here
  first   year - Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016  fourth year Feb. 14, 2017-  Feb. 13, 2018  - now in year five - Feb. 14 - today!                 
I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop - if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
Get  more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
If you'd like to write your own monologues, I happen to have a book for that -   
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Monologue Mania Day #  1685 End Game (for Osculation) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Sept. 27,  2018

    This will go somewhere in the middle of the play.  Other scenes from Osculation are on Days # 308,396, 470, 490, 698, 750, 804, 817,825, 1060, 1100, 1133, 1146, 1150, 1151, 1153, 1159, 1230, 1556 , 1621, 1637, 1684 and today's  1685.  For the whole play in its first version , please click here


This will be part of the last scene, but not sure how it fits in yet.  It needs editing, but definitely parts need to be in the final play.
                                                         End Game
                                                                     (for Osculation)

                                                         by Janet S. Tiger   
                                               (c)  2018    all rights reserved
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           ( Ariana and Isaac are talking after the Academic League final match)


ISAAC - (Still trying to understand everything)  So, I guess there's not much future for us?

         (Ariana shakes her head)

ISAAC -  What about...maybe, in a few years?  After college?  Maybe you'd get bored with this kind of work....

ARIANA -  (Gentle)  Never

ISAAC -  I thought you said never was 10 years and three months...

ARIANA -  I guess this is a right now kind of never.......
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ISAAC -  (Shaking his head in disbelief)  So...is anything you told me even close to the truth?

 ARIANA -  Well,  that I can answer with a definite..... maybe...

 ISAAC -  (A little bitter) So, it's all a joke to you?

ARIANA -  Can you understand this....if you didn't mean anything to me.....I would've left right after the match.....you would have gotten the same story the rest of the school did......but I didn't want to leave it like that......that's why I told them I had to tell you something, otherwise you would go looking for me, and that isn't good......for anyone......

 ISAAC -  Do you even  know what the truth is anymore?  

 ARIANA -  Oh, I know the truth.....better than you do......but see there's the difference .....I was sure you wouldn't snitch....... but you weren't sure that I wasn't going to cheat ..........it's a big difference.....

ISAAC - How can you be so sure of yourself?

            (She turns away)

ISAAC -  And how could you be so sure...... I wouldn't tell?

ARIANA - (Makes a decision)   Because I kissed you enough times to know......... to know that you cared enough for me not to tell.......and that.....(sighs) I care enough not to walk away leaving you hanging in the wind......

            (All he hears is the kissing part and now is even more confused - and this will be continued on another post)

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Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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