Sunday, February 4, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1453 Holidaze by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 5, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1453!  To look at the other 1452 titles - click here
  first   year -  Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016 -  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 # 1453 Holidaze by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 5, 2018  


                                           Holidaze
                            A monologue by Janet S. Tiger   © all rights reserved                                                                                              tigerteam1@gmail.com

          (The writer comes out.....okay it is me!)

         For those following these monologues for awhile, the holidays are a special time for my characters!  I have done monologues about many different special days throughout the year - religious, secular, and....unusual.  Today is one of the unusual variety - because it is....drumroll please!  World Nutella Day!  (My friends are nodding - they are aware of my affinity for.....nutty.)

 Here is the official site - click here

 so, because I am tired, and because I have to be up early, and because I am trying to finish a play for a reading in ten days.......I ask for all to please forgive this brevity..

          (Turns to leave, stops, looks back and I smile)

 ......but also, please celebrate by having some nutella!   

         (I exit to a holiday of nutty chocolate)

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For more crazy holidays this is a great website - click here



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Member Dramatists Guild since 1983

Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1452 I Missed Groundhog Day! by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 4, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1452!  To look at the other 1451 titles - click here
  first   year -  Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016 -  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 -   
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site on Facebook, Google - with friends.  Wishing you much success!
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Monologue Mania Day # 1452 I Missed Groundhog Day! by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 4, 2018  
                                       I Missed Groundhog Day!
                            A monologue by Janet S. Tiger   © all rights reserved                                                                                              tigerteam1@gmail.com

        (Actor enters, very perplexed)

I don't know how this happened.  I put all the important dates for the year onto a calendar, not something in a cloud, but a real live, formerly a tree, paper calendar..... on my refrigerator.

At the beginning of each year, I mark every, and I mean EVERY vital date onto the beautiful empty spaces.....and I make sure to note which are important - like Christmas and Valentine's Day, birthdays but..... for some reason, every year, I miss...Groundhog Day!

And it's such an important day, because it spawned a famous movie that I love and can watch over and over and over and over and (add as many 'overs' as the audience can bear) .....just like the movie!

How would I celebrate this auspicious yearly event?

Simple!  Go to to town where it all began, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania!  Cause you gotta love a city with an 'x' in it!

         (Turns to leave, stops, looks back)

 And you know what else it means?  Because I missed Groundhog Day -  more monologues!  

         (Exits to another year of monologues!  Thanks for reading!)

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 For more info on the real Groundhog Day- please click here

* 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 

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Member Dramatists Guild since 1983

Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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Friday, February 2, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1451 That Was Me (for Caregivers Anonymous) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 3, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1451!  To look at the other 1450 titles - click here
  first   year -  Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016 -  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 -   
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site on Facebook, Google - with friends.  Wishing you much success!
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Monologue Mania Day # 1451 That Was Me (for Caregivers Anonymous) by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 3, 2018  


                              That Was Me
                                        (for Caregivers Anonymous)
                            A monologue by Janet S. Tiger   © all rights reserved                                                                                              tigerteam1@gmail.com
         

     (Younger woman comes forward, looks at the wheelchair, shakes her head)

So tell me again why you were late?

You were..(disdain)  taking care of someone?

So?

I mean okay it takes a little time, but you are an adult, you can manage your time, can't you?  You just have to get up a few minutes earlier, that's all!

I take care of people, too, and you don't see me waltzing in here late, do you?

Yeah, I have two teenagers....so don't tell me your sob story ....here's the deal, if you're late again, you can just consider it early retirement and it's like a gift.....this way you'll be able to take care of your parents ALL the time!  A vacation from work!

        (Leans her head back and screams)

THAT WAS ME!

I said those things, more than once!  God forgive me, I meant them, too!

And then.....just when my kids went off to college and my house was empty, it happened.

My mother fell down, and my father had a heart attack.

The Daily Double!  And suddenly, I was the caregiver.  Only child, with lots of too much attention when I was little, followed by now, too much attention that I have to give.

I had to quit my job, because I became the person coming in late.  Coming in exhausted, because when I took my own brilliant advice and  tried to get up 15 minutes earlier at 5:30 am, it started bumping into....when I was going to sleep!

So here I am, at a support group, because I told my doctor I was thinking about self medicating - oh, no, not drinking, but taking all the meds that my parents have to take and swallowing them at once, with a whiskey chaser!

And my doctor thought this group was a better idea......


          (Turns to sit down, stops, looks back)

.....so, is it better here?  Or just bitter like me?

          (She sits.  Lights down)

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* 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 

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Janet S. Tiger    858-736-6315                CaregiversAnon.org
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983

Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Monologue Mania Day # 1450 Hoarders Anon - and Selling Out by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 2, 2018

Welcome to Monologue Mania- one new free* monologue a day- -and still going!
Today is Day # 1448!  To look at the other 1447 titles - click here
  first   year -  Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 12, 2015  second year -  Feb. 13, 2015 - Feb. 12, 2016  third year -  Feb. 13, 2016 -  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 -   
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site on Facebook, Google - with friends.  Wishing you much success!
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Monologue Mania Day # 1450  Hoarders Anon - and Selling Out by Janet S. Tiger (c) Feb. 2, 2018  
            
                   Ripped from the headlines - of my life.....from Day # 356 - Feb. 2, 2015!
                                              Hoarders Anon
                                                 by Janet S. Tiger   
                                     (c) 2015     all rights reserved
                                            tigerteam1@gmail.com

         (Same woman from an earlier monologue - can't find it now, but will someday!- is at a meeting, standing and talking, wringing her hands)

I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself!  I have been pretty good these last few months, I have been working hard, but then, they offered it to me for free!  I was so tired, and I tried to resist, but you know how it is with free......and I really prayed and hoped for help, but this meeting wasn't for a whole month, and my sponsor was on vacation, and I know excuses are easy, but please, please understand, it was free......it was free....

          (She breaks down, sobbing)

Don't touch me, don't come near me, just let me.....explain....how I got so low again.......It was all the stress, the incredible pressure of my parents, who are going through a divorce at the age of 86, and then my father fell and my mother decided maybe they should reconcile, and the lawyer wants the money for the divorce, and then my best friend told me she is never going to speak to me again because she thinks I was telling her daughter how SHE'S been falling down and she didn't want her daughter to know and even though I told her her daughter might suspect she's falling because she has BRUISES all over, she still won't talk to me!

          (She walks over and gets a big wad of kleenex, blows her nose loudly)

And then, I get the notice in the mail.....

          (She pulls a paper from her pocket)

And right on it, in big letters, it said....FREE....and I know I've told you how FREE makes me react! I go crazy!  I mean, crazier than usual!  My motto is, if it's free, it's for me!

The answer to all my troubles!  One whole month!  (Says the words with relish, as if she's describing something delicious)  A big ....empty..... storage unit for free!

No more sorting, and going through piles of old letters and books and memories! No more having my family mock me as I cry while throwing things away!   And best of all.... No more decisions!

So what could I do?  I had to take it!  It was...free!  I was just going to use it for that free month, not one day more!  I swore it would only be this one time......And so..... I moved all the junk left over from my move two years ago.....and I put it back into the storage unit where I had just removed it....only three months ago!

(Quiet, reverent) Those first few days were like heaven.....the junk was out of my house, I could stop anytime....pick up my things anytime........And then, just like the melted snow of winter, that month was gone.......the free was over.....

(Starts to wail)  Backsliding...everyone at these meetings says it happens, but now...... I feel so.........useless......so   worthless.....so ...... awful.....   (no longer crying, calm and rational)  and I just got the bill.......

          (She pulls it from her pocket)

.....and worse, my husband found it, and I have to go ....bring everything home!  Waaaaaaah!  Why does this happen to me?

           (Gets ahold of herself)

So I was just wondering, since I've seen it here before at these other Hoarders Anon meetings, would you guys please help me move it all back to my garage?

           (Listens, smiles)

Thank you!  And I promise I'll never do this again!

            (Turns to leave, stops, looks back sheepishly)

Unless I get another free month......

             (Exits, unfortunately, never the end of junk)
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 And now for something new -  albeit not really a monologue (I just love using the word albeit!)

                                   Selling Out
Only 10 more days until the end of Year 4!  (And everyone said I was nuts to try one year....)

 And now I face an issue that is important -
To advertise or not to advertise.

There is an option to put ads on this blog.

Would anyone mind?

Apple and Google and FB are worth a zillion dollars, is it wrong for me to want 10 cents of it?

Please let me know!  Thank you for reading - and commenting - and sharing!

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* 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 

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Janet S. Tiger    858-736-6315                CaregiversAnon.org
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983

Playwright-in-Residence

Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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