Give Me Back Tuesday
- Absurdist
- Monologue
- 1 min
- Male role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
4 lines- MOI Male role, Adult your role
Excerpt
MOI
I would like to speak to whoever is in charge. Of Time. Yes, of Time. There has to be somebody in charge; there is somebody in charge of everything, except the important things, funnily enough.
A Tuesday has been stolen from me. I am quite certain. I had a Tuesday scheduled, a good Tuesday, and I woke up: Wednesday. No transition. No apology. As if nothing had happened.
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