Why sanity play monologues

Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Description These five pieces of drama originally written as pieces with the intention that the author play all the characters, but which could involve a larger cast are designed in order that they may be performed as consecutive plays within the same performance.

Alternatively, they can be performed separately, each a self-contained piece in its own right. About the Auth Description These five pieces of drama originally written as pieces with the intention that the author play all the characters, but which could involve a larger cast are designed in order that they may be performed as consecutive plays within the same performance.

About the Author Louise Stokes, born in Somerset in , became an actor, writer, stand up comedian, artist and healer, as a result of nhs bullying. She grew up in Shropshire before studying a Joint Honours B. She devoted fifteen years of her life to the health service, working first with adults, and later specialising in child psychiatry.

Get A Copy. Kindle Edition , 66 pages. More Details 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? We are all mad, crazy, nuts, psycho.

Walk down the street and look into the eyes of the man or woman you walk past. When you are someone like me, you connect with that dark place instantly and you identify with it. I forget who said that we are all living lives of quiet desperation. I believe we are. Sometimes, I will stare into the mirror and wait for the madness to creep from my eyes and leave me once and for all. But all it ever does is reach the surface and smile gently at me, with a wise gleam.

Yeah, I am crazy. Get the Monologue Here. Male, Dramatic, 20s A Louisiana Gentleman is a comedy that exposes Blaine Ashton, a young medical student desperate to choose among three women: his manic sixteen year-old sister, a seductive middle aged actress, and his alcoholic, duty-driven aunt. A hilarious climax forces Blaine to decide in which world he belongs and bridge the painful gap to adulthood. In this monologue, Blaine speaks to his newborn baby about his mentally retarded sister Dale.

After losing his wife and job he is willing to try anything. From conventional to new age he is on a journey to find the root of his mental illness. At this point in the play he has decided to talk to a Neuropsychiatrist after having a rough experience with a physic.

Female, Dramatic, Teens Travis, a senior in high school, is pretty miserable. Erynne, a rebellious punk girl, has been kicked out of her house and is living in a mini-van and her boyfriend is thinking about dumping her. And whether or not they find each other will determine if they live through the night.

This is a play about dealing with tragedy and the strength necessary to survive, all in the search for just one good thing.

In this monologue, Erynne talks to her boyfriend Nemo about the death and suicide of her sister Dierdre. Male or Female, Dramatic, Teens This character sits in a church at a funeral for one of their classmates. Nukulye, an Anglo-Kenyan psychiatry resident seeking certification in the U.