GIVING YOU SPACE
A dramatic monologue
from THE VISITOR IN THE DOORWAY
By Tara Meddaugh
About the play, THE VISITOR IN THE DOORWAY:
Clare has experienced more deep loss than anyone should have to go through, and she knows Grief all too well. After an unimaginable death in her family, Clare runs off to her family cabin in the woods, isolating herself from everyone who might reach out to her. The only visitor she has is the lingering, hovering, persistent, annoying Being outside her cabin who just. won’t. leave: Grief himself, personified. Clare allows him one foot in her doorway, and he works hard to convince her to let him all the way in. The play is a dark comedy, as Grief struggles to do his job; and it’s a drama, as Clare begins to process her pain and loss. The humor and gravity are a necessary team—to relieve and relax us, and then to hit us with the poignancy of tragic reality, as well. Click here for the complete play, THE VISITOR IN THE DOORWAY.
About the monologue, Giving You Space:
Personified Grief has been allowed one foot in Clare’s family cabin doorway, but she is not happy he’s there. Clare has been isolated in this family cabin for weeks without contact with anyone else. Grief and Clare have just confronted each about other the recent loss of her child. In this monologue, Grief lays out the hard truths: Clare needs to start eating and accepting help and letting people (and him) into her life again—or she will die also.
DETAILS:
Genre: Dramatic
Running time: Approximately 30 seconds to 1 minute (depending on performance)
Cast: Male (or any gender)
Age range: young adult through mature/senior adult
Setting: A cabin in the woods
Time period: contemporary
Tags: grief, loss, care, hard truths, tough love, connecting, helping each other, grieving, love
GRIEF
But it’s been weeks, Clare! You won’t read texts or answer calls and you won’t let anyone visit! And because your mom and your best friend and your husband are all dead, you don’t have anyone left who is going to really impose themselves on you and force their way in—which is what you actually need right now! So they’re—END OF EXCERPT
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