![]() ![]() In this one-act play, Jeffrey resides in an asylum and receives a visitation from his actor friend. To read the full one-act ePlay, find purchase link below:.I will be waiting for you….we will be waiting….I am happy to entertain you my friend…I look forward to your next word…You can speak now, say something… Do what you have to do, say what you have to say…it means nothing…nothing, my friend…nothing… You can ridicule me some more my friend, you can pity me, you can lead me to inspiring advice but the truth is, there is nothing you can do or say that can haunt me more than my own soul. It all adds up to a pair of scissors embedded in someone’s neck, doesn’t it? I walk that fence everyday and lately it has been getting harder to stay balanced. They say genius and madness have a thin line between them. I wouldn’t expect you to understand that. 52 Effective Short Monologues for Teens and Kids. I love that I am crazy but I also hate who I am. But all it ever does is reach the surface and smile gently at me, with a wise gleam. Sometimes, I will stare into the mirror and wait for the madness to creep from my eyes and leave me once and for all. The smiles, the charms, it’s all bullsh’t…all smokescreen. I forget who said that we are all living lives of quiet desperation. When you are someone like me, you connect with that dark place instantly and you identify with it. ![]() Walk down the street and look into the eyes of the man or woman you walk past. Life, my DNA, it has fit perfectly together, hasn’t it? What is it for? For my art? Is it fair for a man to sacrifice his sanity for his craft? Is that what God wants? If that is so, then why must I be sacrificed? Why does great beauty come from great pain? If I can go to the top of a mountain, like a Buddhist Monk, perhaps I may have a chance. Not sure I can get through my own madness. JEFFREY: Does it matter to you that I am going mad? Not sure I can go away and reflect on it. Jeffrey does his best to talk to his friend while in a straight jacket. He was an actor before he became institutionalized, for stabbing his director in the neck with a pair of scissors during rehearsing a new stage play. worked on the page, and so I definitely wanted to give that feeling to the audience as the person performing it-to make it resonate the way that it did with me when I read the words on the page.In this monologue, Jeffrey speaks with his friend under visitation hours. Reflecting on the cheers her monologue prompted at the Los Angeles premiere of Barbie, ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Ferrera said that “to be able to hear audiences connecting to it in that way with a response like that is amazing. “By the end,” she said, her co-star Greenblatt could recite the monologue to her from memory “because that’s how many times I had said it.” ![]() She wanted it to just sound like the truth.”įerrera would shoot the monologue scene over the course of two days, and while she felt like she did it “like 500” times, she thinks the real number is “probably” somewhere between 30 and 50. “It was interesting that I initially felt that we wouldn’t just go as straightforward and real with it as we did, that I assumed that there might be a tone that maybe made it…easier for people to hear or to swallow. Look at me, I can’t even control myself cause I feel overwhelmed with all these fragrances in the airso deep in my nostrils, I can’t even breathe anymore, it burns my throat and I. I know I sound crazy, cause you’ve gotten me worked up to this point. “My big question was, “okay, so how are we playing this? Am I playing this slightly humorously? Am I trying to deliver it in a tone that still fits into the tone of Barbie Land?” said the actress. Honestly, I’m like a heart attack away from death. In terms of preparing to deliver the monologue, Ferrera thought first and foremost about the tone with which she was approaching it. There was a little bit of healthy pressure around it.” But it also felt like this pivotal moment that I obviously didn’t want to mess up. It also felt like, wow, what a gift as an actor to get to deliver something that feels so cathartic and truthful. Greta Gerwig Explains ‘Barbie’s “Mic Drop” Final Lineįerrera shared that when filmmaker Greta Gerwig first approached her about the role of Gloria and this specific monologue, it was “flattering” but at the same time “felt like pressure in the nicest way.” When the actress read the speech, she explained, “it hit me as powerful and meaningful. ![]()
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