Nothing Matters
In the dramatic monologue Nothing Matters, Amber provides personal insight to Neo based on her own life experience.
AMBER: The other day, I spoke with an elderly man for hours, and afterward, I felt different, like I’d found the key to a door I couldn’t open before.
I believe it helps to not know someone too well or not know them at all and just pour your heart out and walk away. Leave them with the mess. Let them deal with it or try and figure out whatever you couldn’t.
That’s if you can hold the person’s attention. (beat)
I go to the mall, to the courtyard, and I find some person sitting alone. I sit next to them and start talking about whatever’s disturbing me. Strangers often understand and actually listen. Sometimes they give advice, and sometimes they share parts of their own lives that they’ve never told anyone about. But when they listen to you, that’s what interests me most. You don’t get your closest companions to listen to you in the same way. It’s more interesting when you don’t know someone, or so we think. We take each other’s words and time for granted.
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In the one-act eplay Nothing Matters, Neo and Amber talk for the first time at a High School friend’s party and strike up a possible connection. 1 woman, 1 man. Drama, Teen Drama.
