The five monologues we'll be presenting for you Monday are a rather eclectic bunch. Now that we're starting each Some1Speaking evening with a song performed by a singer-songwriter of heft, I invariably have some sort of a conversation or email exchange with the songwriter to try and select a song that will complement the collection of characters and struggles on display in the hour of Zoom mini dramas.
This month as I described the five wonderful (and so richly varied) plays (and they really are short solo plays) to Anke Summerhill, I found myself landing on this:
Dispatches from a Troubled World. But I don't know if that quite captures it.
In Xavier George's Grown People Really Call it That? we have a witty and sensitive portrayal of a widow in her 60s discovering as she embarks on the second romantic relationship of her life that sex is so much more... surprising than she'd ever imagined during the more than 30 years she spent with her late husband.
Crystal Adaway's haunting piece, Wait, reminds us that at the end of the pandemic, not all roads lead to salvation.
In Devil in the Mirror, Katherine Burger imagines a new kind of performance art in which the ugly destruction of small children caught in the path of an AR-15 is served up right where no one can possibly miss it.
Stuart Greenman's The F-Word drops us in a courtroom in a future America in which a surgeon is on trial for having inadvertently used a word that has been stricken from the English language: fetus.
And in Miriam Kulick's Waiting, a woman with a serious cancer diagnosis toys with the possibility of just not having the surgery.
Join us for an hour of characters you won't be forgetting any time soon. Doors open at 5:45PM EST/2:45PM PCT and the show begins promptly on the hour. Please do remember to silence your cell phones and your email software and show up with headphones if you can because at Hear Me Out, the audience is essential and we want to hear you.
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