Category: Monologues
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My Old Life (But Not For Love)
THE SET-UP Eleanor and Ephram, sister and brother, are both getting married on the same day. And they’re each getting married to a man. With protesters, policemen and a TV news crew outside the church, inside the couples are split over what their day and their ceremony should mean, to themselves or anyone else. Patrick,…
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How I Died (Leave, or The Surface of The World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Why He Quit (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Letters from an Angry Mother (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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The Baked Potato Speech (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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The Only One (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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He’s Slipping Away (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP Seth is a young Marine serving during wartime. Nicholas is his civilian longtime companion who waits back home. In addition to the strain on their relationship caused by distance and absence, they must hide their love for one another behind code words and secret identities because of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy…
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Graveside Thoughts (Leave, or The Surface of the World)
THE SET-UP This is the speech that begins the play. Read on… “If I’d done everything I could, everything I should, this boy wouldn’t be in the ground.” (A gravestone. ANNE, a woman in her 50s.) ANNE This isn’t my grave. There are days I wish it was. Days I think it should be. A…
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Sunday School Teacher (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP Isobel is out shopping at the local mall with her new friend Diana. The young women met both in church and college classes they share, and have bonded over their shared religion. While shopping for shoes, Isobel and Diana have struck up an animated conversation. This speech of Isobel’s is part of…
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To Feel Like You Belong (Studpuppy)
THE SET UP Harris is a flamboyant young gay man in his late teens/early twenties, speaking with Spencer, his friend who is working his way through college walking around the local mall in a dog suit based on a popular cartoon character. Spencer, while in the costume, cannot speak, so Harris has a captive audience…