20 MAGICAL MINUTES
A dramatic monologue
From the play 20 MAGICAL MINUTES OF DARKNESS AND SILENCE AND PEACE
By Tara Meddaugh
About the play, 20 MAGICAL MINUTES OF DARKNESS AND SILENCE AND PEACE
Grace, a raccoon, is begrudgingly charged to find, and bring back, her fellow raccoon, Joffrey, who has gone missing after a shocking personal tragedy. When she finally finds the depressed Joffrey in a train station parking lot, he is carrying around a large garbage bag and refuses to come back with her—yet. He is reeling in grief, and in order to find solace and closure, he has to do something first. At this parking lot. With the garbage bag. And he needs her help. This is a play where our characters are raccoons. They talk about cat food, pizza from a dumpster and being tired when staying awake during the daylight. But at its core, is a story about love, loss, pain, grief and ultimately friendship—which is entirely human.
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About the monologue, 20 Magical Minutes:
Joffrey has asked Grace for her help moving his loved one’s body to a special place to memorialize her. Grace has suggested a few places (a dumpster, a special tree), but Joffrey isn’t interested in those locations. In this monologue, he explains to her how he met his partner (in a truck engine one rainy day), leading up to revealing where he wants to place her body.
DETAILS:
Genre: Dramatic (with a little comedic)
Running time: Approximately 1 minute (depends on performance)
Cast: Male (or any gender)
Age range: young adult through mature/senior adult
Setting: A train station parking lot
Time period: contemporary
From the play, 20 MAGICAL MINUTES OF DARKNESS AND SILENCE AND PEACE.
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EXCERPT
JOFFREY
You know what she really loved? She loved climbing in the engine compartments of cars, just after the motor was turned off… When a motor turns off, there’s—I don’t know—20 magical minutes, at least, of this—this perfect warmth. And darkness. And…silence. But the absence of a motor running is… Grace, it’s even quieter than silence. It’s a peace…like death. Or what I imagine to be death.
(pause)
It’s where I first met her. A gray truck at the train station—END OF EXCERPT
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