THE SET UP
Spencer is a young gay man in his late teens/early twenties, who works his way through college by walking around a local mall in a dog outfit, based on a popular cartoon character. When in costume, it’s hard to see, and he’s not allowed to speak. During the course of the script, other people step into the dog suit so that Spencer can step out of it and speak to us about his experiences. This is one of those times, though the dog suit should always be nearby, to remind us. Spencer has met a young man, Linc, who he likes very much, but he can’t speak with him. Also, Spencer isn’t entirely sure that Linc doesn’t just like him for the costume, a childhood reference that Linc finds comforting. Though he has not been able to speak to Linc, Spencer addresses him in this monologue.
(NOTE – Can be combined with Spencer’s other monologue beginning – “All my seams are showing. And that’s just on the outside” to make a fuller monologue)
“Do you have any idea how wonderful and terrible it is to have held you in my arms, to have touched you, and still not know what you feel like?”
SPENCER
Do you have any idea how wonderful and terrible it is to have held you in my arms, to have touched you, and still not know what you feel like?
Not know how you smell —
— how your hair feels between my fingers.
Will you look as good as I think you do when I see you without gauze-covered eyes?
Will I be a disappointing human being after you’ve known me as a dog?
(photo: 2001 production by Allegheny College (Meadville, PA); the costume of Skippy the Dog, at rest during tech week)
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