Sample Monologue

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The following monologues are excerpts from GIRL TALK and are for audition material only courtesy of The Play Group Theatre^®. Performance rights may be requested by contacting PGT at (914) 946-4433 or e-mail scripts@playgroup.org

MY BROTHER

Lucy
I always wanted a little sister. I can remember when I was eight I went around telling all my friends that I was getting a sister. One of them must have told her mother and it made it’s way back to my mother and I got in trouble for lying. But nobody ever bothered to ask why I had lied. I saw my friends with their sisters. And I wanted that. My friend Elsa was always making up plays with her sister, and then performing them for their parents. They even charged admission once. I just wanted - a partner. Anyway, when I was ten - the great miracle happened. My parents told me they were having a baby. They looked like they had been run over by a truck. Definitely an accident. But I didn’t care. Accident or not, I was getting a sister. So I planned and I prepared. I secretly spent my allowance money on stuff for the baby - toys, lollipops and even a little pink outfit with lace and ruffles around the collar. I stashed it all away under my bed, just waiting for the big day. Well, of course, it finally arrived. 9:00pm - Thursday, March 18. My parents went to the hospital and I went to Elsa’s house. Every time the phone rang, my heart skipped a beat. It was the next morning when my father finally called. I heard Elsa’s mother - “Oh, that’s just so wonderful. And they’re both okay? Oh, Lucy will be so excited. Have you chosen a name? Jeffrey. What a beautiful name.” Jeffrey? They’re naming my sister Jeffrey? How cruel can they be? (a long beat while she mulls this over) Jeffrey is two years old now. He’s okay I guess. One night, when he was still a baby, I snuck into his room slipped the little pink outfit on him. He looked cute as a sister. I took a picture too, so someday, when I really need something from him, I’ll have bribery material. Lately, Jeffrey and I have been bonding over Sesame Street. He was really into Big Bird until I explained the finer points of Grover. Now, he’s crazy for Grover He seems to think that I know everything. See...my brother is shaping up to be a pretty good partner.