“A WALK IN THE WOODS” (drama) 2 Minutes

Photo Courtesy LARRY TOMLINSON

Monologue Description: “A WALK IN THE WOODS is a drama about having a forced sexual experience.

Character Description: In this monologue, Tasha, a middle-aged teen, reveals to her best friend Madelane, that she thinks she might have been raped at a house party over the weekend.

TASHA:

(pause - Tasha fidgets in her chair)

…I had sex, I…Josh and me and—

(she sighs)

You have a cigarette? Let me get a fucking cigarette, please.

(beat)

Thank you….so, well, let me just wait until you give it to me.

(she receives a cigarette and lighter from her friend)

Thanks. So, I was at the Weiner’s party…you know that. Everybody was there but you but anyway…I was drinking alot but having the best time ever becase of the music they were spinning. Not for nothing but Johnny’s a really good DJ.

Uh, anyway…I was talking with Josh over by where we were all doing keg stands…Then me and Josh went off on our own. We decided to take a walk. We walked over by the back of the house, into the open woods area. It was really nice, walking with him and talking, just about anything we talked about, seemed to be the best conversation ever.

So, we made it over to this brook, a really beautiful place. We sat on a log that must have been perfectly placed by someone because it was so perfect.

We started kissing. And when he kissed me it was like my whole body went into this shock, it was like all my nerves were tingling.

He pulls out weed. He wants me to smoke a joint with him. Now,as you know, I never did that shit before, so I was like really iffy about it. And I was scared.

But he kept pressuring me into it and I just did it and it made me all whack like. Like I was having like a panic attack or something but he kept trying to to kiss me more and the more he kept kissing me the more I kept on starting to panic. And it was getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse….so I told him. And I kept telling him that I didn’t feel right, to please stop and he, the more I…the more I kept telling him to stop the more aggressive he got…

(pause)

And this went on with more force. HE, had more force, so I started to scream…I screamed and he told me to shut up…to shut up and—

…next thing I know, he, he was in me, inside of me and it hurt and I, couldn’t scream Madelane. I couldn’t make any sounds from my mouth to save my life…

everything was spinning, all crazy and out of control…I felt like I was in a ferris wheel at like a hundred miles per hour…you know?

And I had no strength..I was weak..I couldn’t resist him, couldn’t fight him off of me…all I could do was TAKE IT…

I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.

Should I tell someone, is this something really bad? I mean, he did what I think he did right? Right? I was…

(she cries)

I was…

(she cries)

(both friends embrace and holds on to one another in tears and painful cries)