“Beginning – Middle – End” (drama) 2 Minutes

January 12, 2009 by The Monologue Blogger

Filed under 2 Minute Monologues, Female Monologues - Drama, MB Library

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Monologue Description: “BEGINNING – MIDDLE – END” is a drama about lack of communication in a marital relationship.

Character Description:In this monologue, KYRA defends herself in the eyes of her condescending husband.

KYRA:

Stop trying to make me look stupid! I AM NOT STUPID. I just haven’t been wise to your sneaky ways. I am a very intelligent woman! I’m tired of you trying to make me out to be some sort of babbling idiot. When we go to parties or family functions, you always have to butt in on my conversation, like you think you are protecting me from making an ass out of my self.

AND THAT IS NOT THE CASE!!!

I enjoy having conversations and I enjoy telling stories. So what if my stories are entertaining? So what if my they are what you call outrageous tales. No one else seems to mind but you! It’s always you.

I’m sorry if I’ve become an embarrassment to you but this is who I am and I won’t stop being me. At first I thought it actually was me. You’ve had me fooled for awhile until I began observing. Like last Friday for instance. When we were at the Atkinson’s house. We were all laughing and playing and having a wonderful time. I was going on about how my niece Kelly would imagine that the roots to the tree in our backyard were dinosaur bones. Yes, that may have been stupid to you but it was pure pleasure for everyone else.

I’ve figured it all out finally. It’s because you have no social skills, whatsoever. You stand around with your glass of champagne or wine and nod with that dumb grin of yours, saying the same redundant thing, (she imitates him) ” Very nice time, very nice time.” And then you chuckle about while you peer off in the distance looking for me in your condescending way and deciding as to when you will pounce on me after you’ve had your fill of drink.

It’s because I am a gracious butterfly and you are a putz. I am the life of the party and you are the dunce. This is why Harold, this is why you’re always stopping me and blurting in so rudely, making your whimsical comments when what you’re really doing is lashing out at me, through indirect sarcasm because you aren’t man enough to face your own shortcomings as a person.

I outshine you and you hate it! Rather than standing by my side you try and shut me down. All you ever achieve is humiliating yourself and YOU’RE too dumb to recognize this fact. So who is the fool now?!

In the beginning you were amazing. I could never do no wrong in your eyes. You actually loved me for me and I believed you wholeheartedly. In the middle, you were polite by being tolerant of my ways and now, I believe we are coming towards the end and you have no reason to love me as you once did. No reason to cherish who I am as a woman and what I should mean to you as a wife, friend, lover…I will not bow down to your bullshit way of thinking! I will not change who I am to make you happy. I believe in compromise Harold but you are trying to shame me and I will not stand for it!

Accept me for who I am Harold or this is the end.