HIS FIRST ENGLISH WORDS
A short monologue play
by Tara Meddaugh (c) 2018
*This monologue stands alone as its own piece, but it also comes from the collection of shorts in the full-length play, Victory Gardens.
Grace is a Catholic widow who takes in a Jewish refugee child in the 1940s. She knows very little of his experience, culture, or language and strives to find a way to connect.
DETAILS
Genre: Drama, 1940s, monologue
Running time: Approximately 5-10 minutes
Cast: Female, 40s-60s
Setting: a home, a public library
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This is a 5-10 minute dramatic monologue play for a female actor. Grace is a Catholic widow who takes in a Jewish refugee child in the 1940s. She knows very little of his experience, culture, or language and strives to find a way to connect.
To read the full-length play, from which His First English Words monologue originated, please click the link below for The Victory Garden Plays.
While soldiers fight abroad in WW2, those remaining in Westchester County strive to make a difference on the Homefront by creating Victory Gardens, supplementing limited food supply. But the pressures on the homefront extend much further than simply growing produce. A child worries her failing rooftop garden is an omen of misfortune for her father’s return from a POW camp. An infertile woman throws her purpose into feeding neighborhood families. A wealthy man whose chemical plant is commissioned by the government for war purposes struggles with how to leave a meaningful legacy not tainted with warfare. These stories, and more, are given light in The Victory Garden Plays, a series of vignettes chronicling people’s journeys with their new realities of love, growth, life and death.
WCT Production of The Victory Garden Plays directed by Nathan Flower. Below is the movement, [Grace and Albert and] His First English Words starring Missy Flower. Costume design by Georgia Evans. Photos by Gregory Perry Photography.
