Tara Meddaugh

STRAWBERRY YOGURT CUPS GOING BAD IN THE FRIDGE

A dramatic monologue
from  THE VISITOR IN THE DOORWAY

By Tara Meddaugh 

About the play, THE VISITOR IN THE DOORWAY:
Clare has experienced more deep loss than anyone should have to go through, and she knows Grief all too well. After an unimaginable death in her family, Clare runs off to her family cabin in the woods, isolating herself from everyone who might reach out to her. The only visitor she has is the lingering, hovering, persistent, annoying Being outside her cabin who just. won’t. leave: Grief himself, personified. Clare allows him one foot in her doorway, and he works hard to convince her to let him all the way in. The play is a dark comedy, as Grief struggles to do his job; and it’s a drama, as Clare begins to process her pain and loss. The humor and gravity are a necessary team—to relieve and relax us, and then to hit us with the poignancy of tragic reality, as well. Click here for the complete play, THE VISITOR IN THE DOORWAY.

About the monologue, Strawberry Yogurt Cups Going Bad in the Fridge:
Personified Grief has been allowed one foot in Clare’s family cabin doorway, but she is not happy he’s there. After confronting her pain of losing her son, after a series of other deep losses, Clare begs and pleads with Grief to go away and leave her alone for a really long time. In this monologue, Grief feels deeply for Clare, but he also knows how he and she work together. He has to lay out the hard truth that he’d rather not have to tell her…that he is going to be hanging around her every second of every day for a long time.

DETAILS:
Genre: Dramatic
Running time: Approximately 30 seconds to 1 minute (depending on performance)
Cast: Male (or any gender)
Age range: young adult through mature/senior adult
Setting: A cabin in the woods
Time period: contemporary
This is a monologue about: grief, grieving, loss, love, loss of a child, tragedy, hard truths, grief personified

GRIEF

I can’t lie to you, Clare. Andr—He…is everywhere in your house—his racecar bed and the strawberry yogurt cups going bad in the fridge, and even in this family cabin which you deluded yourself into thinking was safe, but he’s so deep in your heart, you know—END OF EXCERPT

Click here for the FREE 30-60 SECOND MONOLOGUE, STRAWBERRY YOGURT CUPS GOING BAD IN THE FRIDGE. This monologue is free to download, but if you would like to support the playwright and her craft, you may do so below:

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