Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women by Hodge-Dallaway Simeilia;

Author:Hodge-Dallaway, Simeilia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Girl Can’t remember isn’t the same as forget. That’s the problem. Forget is, don’t want to remember. Can’t remember is, don’t want to forget.

Sometimes during a Black, the girl would go to bars to find men. She’d carry a large knife in her knapsack.

(She approaches the door. When she opens it, music blares and she is enveloped in a red light. She walks through the door, closing it behind her. The music is muted again. She emerges behind the stage left stairs. As if inside the ‘club’; she carries a bag slung over her shoulder.)

Within five minutes some guy would always come up and start talking. She’d talk back, but it was like she wasn’t even there … just watching it all happen from the other side of the room. Watching him try to pick her up, try to impress her – the whole time thinking, is he big enough? Strong enough? (Pause.) Mean enough?

Because last call would be in about half an hour of getting there, the girl would suggest they go someplace else … Someplace else was always the lakeshore.

(The song and club sounds plays louder as she dances towards the ‘lakeshore’ downstage.)

(Dancing.) No one was ever down there at two or three in the morning – at least not the part the girl wanted them to go: the far end, where there’s nothing. No ice cream stands, no boardwalks, nothing. You could do anything to a person down there and no one would ever see you.

(As she spins into a seated position, the music fades – still present but distorted.)

Sitting, she leans back slightly, leaving one hand free near the open bag beside her.

(The stage grows darker, with only a spot of light on her.)

He would have to start. If he didn’t start, it wouldn’t count. The girl would give the man every reason to believe she was really into it and then – then, when there was no reason to stop – NO. She’d say no, he’d beg, C’mon, baby … she’d say no again, he’d get angry, Are you fucking KIDDING me?! He’d be really angry by now because she’d led him on all this time and because he was so turned on and frustrated and PISSED OFF all at once he’d – force her. He’d – force her to do it even though she said no –

And then – only then – or it wouldn’t count / (Her hand reaches towards her bag.) Force her or it wouldn’t count / (Body tenses as she waits for it, hand inside her bag.) …

But none of them ever did. They were all nice men. All they wanted was her number.

(Pause.)

She removes her hand from the bag.

It never mattered to the girl that they hadn’t caught him. Nothing mattered then.

The girl’s parents could only find one hospital where women like her could stay to get help. It was in L.A.

(We hear the buzz of fluorescents and electricity as a ‘light’ outline of a bed appears downstage right. She steps down towards it.

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