Blessings: New dramatic monologue about grieving, for male actor
Eventually, I will write a post about grieving, as it has become a familiar guest in my life the past 4 years. But for now, if you’re looking for a 2-minute dramatic monologue about grief, you can check out this new monologue below, Blessings. Speaking to a Grief Support Group, Ian confronts the whispered notion that it was a blessing that he and his wife did not have children before she died.
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IAN
Oh, people say it all the time. It’s behind my back, or in the corner of the room, so they think I don’t hear. My wife is dead so my heart is broken but my ears work fine. So I hear them say it—it’s not just one person—it’s a lot of people, my friends and coworkers and even family members. It must console them to be able to say it to each other. To try to find something good about her death. “Thank God at least they didn’t have children.”
(pause)
But, you know. She had me. She left me behind.
(pause)
And maybe if I had children, I could share some of this, this crippling pain with them, and maybe spreading it out between a few people would make it more…bearable. But that’s bad to say, I guess. Why share pain with someone else when you can absorb it all yourself? Maybe I would understand that self-sacrificing concept better if I were a father. But—END OF EXCERPT
Click below for the complete 2-minute monologue, Blessings.