“JIGSAW MAN” (serio-comedy) 2 Minutes

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Monologue Description: “JIGSAW MAN” is a serio-comedy piece about a man who has trouble identifying his personality.

Character Description: In this monologue, Dan talks to his best friend Shannon about the difficulty he has trying to figure out WHO HE IS. The conversation takes place at Dan’s apartment, in his living room. Shannon and Dan have been very close friends for many years and Dan has always felt like he can truly open up to her and talk to her about anything, no matter how crazy it sounds.

DAN:

Damn it! Who the hell am I? No, really…who the - FUCK, am I? It’s like a, like a , like a, I’m like a jigsaw puzzle. I don’t know who I am..I feel split but in a lots of pieces, MANY pieces….Maybe I do have a double personality but in my case it’s got to be multiple. I must have dozens of different sides to me. Where’s my balance? How would you define me? Can you? Can you even describe me, who I am? Why do I feel so mixed up Shannon?

[beat]

There are days when I am a chill dude, you know…smoking pot, drinking wine, having cigars, whatever…there are days when I am “professional“, the suit, the tie, clean shaved and all that…there are days when I am athletic Dan, when I constantly talk about sports and hit the park everyday its sunny out…days when I’m a geek and I go through this strange and elaborate period of complete immersion into whatever it is I am trying to immerse myself in….days when, I feel like—I am babbling away here…Damn it! Help me…

There is a sense, I get a sense of who I am only three times out of the year, this Buddha like sensation comes over me and I’m like BINGO, that is who the fuck I am. I am ME. I get this wild understanding as if I hit some plateau and I try to hold on to it, I try to make this understanding of self last me a lifetime but all I am ever strong enough to do is hold onto it for a day…maybe a few hours…and puffy poo, it’s gone.

Lost again and going through these circles..of creativity, business ethics and madness….oh yes…I think I’m a bit crazy but maybe it works for me. I have to be if I have all this commotion happening in my brain all the time.

What I am getting at…what I am trying to say is how the heck do you people do it? How come it seems or it appears to me that EVERYONE knows themselves so well and I am the only idiot who is always behind the game. I’ve always been the late bloomer. Always missing the big show.

I get confused with my own identity. I can be charming and sexy and cool, hip, whatever…I can be powerfully angry, and I hate that, I really do…I can be a variety of things….I’ve been quiet and introspective…at parties I either hide like a shy five year old or I let it all hang out and I’m the life of the party. Perhaps all those things are what make me, ME. Perhaps my versatility is who I am. Maybe I’m just infatuated with life and I explore many different sides to myself in order to get the most experience out of life. Maybe I should see a doctor, one who specializes in this personality crisis type thingy. Maybe I should blow my brains out. KIDDING! JUST KIDDING! I haven’t lost it. I’m not really crazy Shannon, I just get stressed out at times and I spazz, like now, with you, my best friend…you are all I’ve got.

I listen to people. I watch how people respond to me. To some, I am this energetic kind of guy…with others, a comedian. Still, with others…ah, you get what I’m saying…so many different aspects of me.

How can a human being be defined by one thing, right? Maybe I’m just too hard on myself and I need to accept that we change..we evolute, if such a word exists, if not, fuck it, I’m still using it…evolute.

Eh, I feel better, venting this out but I just feel disconnected at times. I do, with myself. You ever feel that way - not make sense to yourself? What do you do, how do you handle it?

You wanna go public, get some drinks? Talk about it there? If you don’t mind.

(pause)

I love you Shannon….thanks babe. For being my true friend. I love ya kid.