New dark comedy/dramatic monologue: Rachel's monologue from Seventeen Stitches
Check out this newly released dark comedy/dramatic monologue for a teen/young adult, from my one-act play, Seventeen Stitches. Rachel and Peter are standing in a kind of vortex-like line, Rachel recounts toPeter, how she first met him. It all started at the teeter-totter…
Seventeen Stitches: Rachel’s Monologue
RACHEL
We weren’t in the same class, but we had recess together. Play time. I’m Rachel. You’re Peter, right? I remember the name of someone who saved me. I was on the teeter totter with Becky Hill—she was really big, remember? She was my age—maybe six, or whatever age you are in first grade. I think she weighed over a hundred pounds already. I weighed maybe 40, or whatever you’re supposed to weigh at that age. Hey, are you crying? I’m telling you the tale of why I know you and I really think you ought to be listening to me. So maybe Becky didn’t like me because I stuttered when I read Dr. Seuss, or she was jealous that I still wore kids’ t-shirts or maybe she didn’t like me because I was just who she didn’t want to like—I don’t know. But when I was way up high and she was way down low, when her totter was touching the pavement, she—END OF EXCERPT
Click for the free monologue, Seventeen Stitches: Rachel’s monologue.
If you like the monologue, you might enjoy the play! Click below for the one-act play, Seventeen Stitches, from which Rachel’s monologue comes.
Rachel and Peter meet in a vortex-like space between opposing lines of people. While Rachel is simply passing the time before she returns to her place in line, Peter has stepped out of his line in protest. As the lines begin to close in on them, he must make a life-altering decision by choosing to continue forging his path in his father’s line, or join the haunting allure of Rachel’s line, the “line of diamonds.”
-A dark comedy/thriller, one-act play. approximately 20-25 minutes, for 2 actors (1 female, 1 male), teen or young adult.