Rough Around The Edges
In Rough Around The Edges, Shelly talks to her boyfriend about how she misses her mother and wants to get a tattoo in her memory.
Featured Monologue – Rough Around The Edges
SHELLY: There is no mystery. You don’t need ta know everything ’bout me. Don’t take that the wrong way. I have ta have some level of privacy in my life or I won’t feel like myself. Does that make sense?
I will tell you something though…I’m getting a tattoo to cover my scar…it’s gonna have meaning that represents my mother, my life. We used ta watch kung fu movies together, so it’s gonna have an influence that means ‘never forgotten’…not that I’ll ever forget my mother, but I feel that, I don’t know, she’ll be somewhat closer to me, physically, you know?
…Maybe I’ll be reminded of her more often. All the little things she use to say that once annoyed me, I don’t wanna forget all that now…well, I don’t wanna forget anything about her, not anything really, not even her hair or the feel of her skin…hope those things never leave me.
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Monologue Summary
In the drama monologue Rough Around The Edges, Shelly has a sentimental moment with her boyfriend and shares something with him about her relationship with her deceased mother.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~1 Minute
- Monologue Character: Shelly
- Age Range: Any
- Themes: love, family, tattoo
- Best For: Female Dramatic Monologues
World of the Play
- Cast Size: 2 characters
- Characters in Play: Shelly, Nicky
- Time Period: Modern
- Synopsis: In the one act eplay Rough Around The Edges, Shelly opens up to her boyfriend Nicky about how she wants to get a tattoo in memory of her mother who had passed away.
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Monologue Source: Rough Around The Edges
Rough Around The Edges is a dramatic one-act ePlay by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
