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Category Archives: Monologues

Monologues and Dialogues I have done or liked

What I Did On 2008-08-29

Doing it again. Twitter as a research capture tool. The Monologue Database: #
try again: http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/ #
The office is closing at noon today. 8 min and counting down. Of course I am a contractor so I will miss out on 12 hours of work in 2 weeks #
I have about 12 pieces of wood in the [...]

Stewart

Title: Stewart
From the Book: More Monologues They Haven’t Heard
Roger Karshner
ISBN: 0-9611792-2-8
Description: Stewart, a young, terminal AIDS patient, unloads his anger.
Yes, I’m bitter. And why shouldn’t I be? How would you feel? How would you like to give it up, all of this…your life? Christ I haven’t even lived. Death is something that happens to other [...]

Domingo Montoya

Book: The Princess Bride
Author: William Goldman
Description: Domingo Montoya, Inigo’s father, explains to his friend, a fellow sword-maker, why he refuses to help him out by making a sword for some Italian noble.
Domingo: Why? My fat friend asks me why? He sits there on his world-class ass and has the nerve to ask me why? [...]

I hate being Scottish

Movie: Trainspotting
Director: Danny Boyle
Author: Irvine Welsh
TOMMY: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?
RENTON: I hate being Scottish. We’re the lowest of the fucking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, [...]

The Child

Title: The Child
Author: Anthony Giardina
Description: Thomas, twenty-seven, an idealistic man who drives a milk truck, and his wife Leah, twenty-three, a first-year medical student, struggle to decide whether to have the baby which is growing inside of Leah or to abort it. They finally decide to have an abortion, mainly on Thomas’s insistence. In this [...]