“Released” (drama) Under 1 minute

Monologue Description:  “Released” is about a prisoner who is being released from prison after killing his parents three decades prior.

Character Description:  Leonard talks to a new prisoner about what he plans on doing when he gets out.

LEONARD:

I’m gonna leave prison sometime tomorrow and be done with it.  I’m forty two, been locked up since I was fourteen.  I was raised in prison.  Not too many people can say that but I can.  That’s my life.  I’ve seen alot of dirt in here and I’ve written a book about my entire experience.  I’m going to throw it back in their faces and make money doing so.  I was locked up for killing my parents.  I sacrificed my freedom to get rid of the abuse that was my life.  To be honest, I would have done double the time if I had to.  My parents weren’t fit to live and I still have no regret or remorse about playing God. 

If you want to know why I am so cold towards what happened thirty somewhat years ago, then read my book. 

“7 x 8″ (drama) 2 minutes

Monologue Description:  “7 x 8″ is a drama that talks about what it was like to be physically abused by a parent.

Character Description:  Thomas talks to his girlfriend about what he went through with his father, as a child.

THOMAS:   

When I was nine years old, my math teacher flunked me and I needed to go to summer school.  I remember going up to school with my father and watching him beg my teacher to give me a passing grade.  He pleaded with her until she agreed.  The agreement they made was for my father to teach me Math for the entire summer, instead of me going to summer school.  My parents didn’t have the money to send me to sumer school.

Every morning my father would wake me up early, as if I had school and he would sit me down half asleep in this big wooden chair.  I fucking hated this wooden chair because it gave me a cold feeling inside.  It was a chair that made me feel small.  It was an unforgiving chair that wasn’t comfortable no matter what position I took.  This was the chair that caused me pain.

My father would question my memory for multiplication tables.  Whenever I gave a wrong answer, I would get smacked across the face.  I would get so nervous that my hands would shake and every time I tried to write on the looseleaf, it would be scribble.  I would get another smack in the face for not writing neat enough.  My father demanded and threatened for me to write evenly, between the blue line, top to bottom and whenever I didn’t, I would get smacked yet again.

My tears would hit the looseleaf and my father would pull my hair and crumble the looseleaf to make me write it all over again from the beginning.

One time he hit me so hard that I was pushed back into the back end of the wooden chair.  The impact caused my spinal cord to directly hit the edge of the wood which caused me to cut and bruise my spine.

All I remember was my father pounding the numbers over and over and over again, until I got it right…7 x 8=56, 8 x 7=56…and on and on and on….

I forced myself to concentrate because I knew that if I got an answer wrong, I would get hurt.  And I was scared.  This was the only time in my entire life that I was scared of anyone.  It was my first and last encounter with fear.  I promised myself that I would never let any other person ever make me scared.  I’ve kept that promise since that day forward.  I guess that’s why when I tell someone I promise, I NEVER BREAK IT.

That was the worst summer of my life…

“Wolf Eyes” (comedy) 1 minute

Monologue Description:  “Wolf Eyes” is a comedy that expresses a sexual relationship between a man and a woman.

Character Description:  Carey talks to her girlfriend about an unspoken sex game her and her boyfriend play.

CAREY:  

He looks at me like a hungry wolf in the mornings.  I’m serious.  We will be all cozy in bed and about five minutes after the alarm clock goes off, he starts eyeing me.  Now, I’m not saying that’s a terrible thing.  I think every woman wants her man to be attracted to her at all times.  But, my boyfriend gets this particular look in his eyes, a look that I can only describe as, THE WOLF LOOK. 

Have you ever seen that Jack Nicholson movie, when he plays the wolf.  I think the name of the movie was wolf.  Anyway, Jack gets this scary look in his eyes when he begins changing into the wolf.  That’s my boyfriend in a nutshell.  He freaks me out!

So, I get up from bed and I go to make coffee and after about a minute or so, he enters the kitchen.  And the wolf look has gotten worse.  It’s almost as if he begins circling around me, like I’m his prey!  I remain calm and make subtle motions so I don’t succumb to any pouncing like movements from the predator.  Instead I focus on slowly exiting the kitchen to make my way to the bathroom, where there is a lock on the door. 

I realize that as I make my way to the bathroom, he casually follows me.  He does this real subtle, real smooth, so not to frighten me.  By the time I make it inside the bathroom, it’s too late.  By then he scoops me up and carries me back into his lair and has his way with me.

Afterwards, I go and finish making the coffee and we both get dressed for work and start our day.  I love him, I think he’s great.  I don’t mind the wolf game sometimes.

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