Bucket of Rain
In the dramatic monologue Bucket of Rain, Wylo reveals that he believes walking through the tunnel isn’t going to make a change.
WYLO: I have felt it many times, this need to deterge my brain, to wash away what has been gathered within the crevices. I imagine it, my brain, held in my palms under rushing water as the residue withers away.
I want to see the world with virgin eyes. When you watch the hand behind the clock, it becomes difficult to unwind. I wish to forget. To forget, to begin again. To be innocent, naive…
I don’t want to hear the bombs dropping any longer.
Even if I walked through that tunnel with you once more, it would never last. You’ll be stripped of your crudeness, wrongdoings, fears, and memories…the ones that keep you awake at night; but, each time, each life will fill back up like a bucket of rain.
Temporary removal. That is all. Temporary removal.
We run from ourselves, never facing all that we are. What would form anew? That’s the question we wish to ignore. Afraid to morph further, we excuse ourselves from our innate cruelties. It is easier to forget the harm we’ve manifested onto others and ourselves.
You can walk on through, be transformed; it will do that…but over time the fumes of deception will seep through your skin with cries and whispers.
Your reason will slow, your breathing will labor, your vision will falter, your smile will crack, and all that will be left…is the same.
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In the one-act eplay Bucket of Rain, Forester wishes to walk through ‘the tunnel’ in order to forget his life’s problems, but before he does, Wylo shares his own experience having already walked through the tunnel previously. 2 Men. Drama.
