111 One-Minute Monologues by Debbie Lamedman

Author:Debbie Lamedman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2017-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

FINDING MOTHER

ANDREA is adopted and has recently located her birth mother. She now plans to meet with the woman, but ANDREA’s adoptive mother feels threatened. Here, ANDREA convinces her mother that meeting her birth mother is the right and necessary thing to do.

ANDREA: Don’t you get it? It’s not about you… it’s about me and finding out where I come from. I want to know why I look the way I do and act the way I do… I think it’s important that I find out about those things, don’t you? (Pause.)

I just want to meet her and talk to her. I’m not trying to replace you. I would never want that. You are my mother. And as far as I’m concerned you’re the only mother I’ll ever have. But this woman… she can tell me things about my background… things that even you don’t know… and if I don’t talk to her now, I’ll always have these unanswered questions in my life. (Beat.)

Please don’t be mad or upset and try to understand how important this is to me. This woman gave me life—but she also gave me up… don’t you think I have a right to know why? (Pause.)

I love you Mom. You have to know that. But you also have to let me do this. You know that it’s the right thing to do—and you’ve always taught me to do the right thing.

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