COVERING MY EARS
A dramatic monologue
Genre: DRAMA/TEEN/CHILDREN'S
Cast: FEMALE/MALE
Setting: A BATHROOM
Age range: 12-70+
Running time: Approximately 2 minutes
Description: Whitney is in the bathroom, envisioning the calmness, peace and escape covering her ears in the shower gives her, before the abrupt harshness of reality comes when she uncovers her ears.
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Excerpt from the monologue, "Covering My Ears"
WHITNEY
I cover my ears in the shower. I stand there—letting the water drip down my hair, my back. I turn into it. It flows down my face. It’s loud. Not like thunder. It’s…it’s…peaceful. Like…I’m swimming under water, in a lake, it’s dark and the rain is pouring down. It’s loud under water. But it’s quiet. Muffled. Calm. There are no problems under water. There is no yelling. No hurt. No pain. Everything is erased. And no one knows me. What I’ve done. What’s been done to me. I’m nothing under the water. And nothing is…freeing. To me.
(pause)
I uncover my ears.
(pause)
I have to. I know I can’t stand like this forever.
(pause)
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