The Letter
Drama, do not open
- Drama
- Monologue
- 1 min
- Male role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
5 lines- MOI Male role, Adult your role
Excerpt
(Someone holds a folded sheet, without opening it.)
MOI
You always wrote in pencil. “That way you can go back,” you’d say.
I kept the last one. I never opened it. As long as it’s folded, you haven’t finished your sentence.
People tell me to turn the page. But this one, I haven’t even read the first line.
What you can do with it
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In these selections
The same text, elsewhere
Close to this one
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What I Never Said
No. Stay where you are. For once, I am the one talking. You spent years cutting me off. Finishing my sentences. Deciding that whatever I thought did not matter. And the astonishing part is…
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Wonderful
Wonderful. Truly. You pick tonight. The one night I had actually prepared something. Your timing is an art form. No, no, go on. Explain it to me. I love this part. The part where you…
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What Remains
Don’t say anything. Please. Not now, not in that voice. I spent years translating your silences. I’m tired of always being right too late.