4 Best Mercy Monologues

Category: Play Role: Orville From: Mercy

Orville says

(ORVILLE talking to the baby. It’s late.)

Are you awake? Hey, are you awake? Sorry. I know it’s late. It’s just — I saw the guy who killed your mom. I mean I knew he was out on bail, but I didn’t expect to just run into him like that. I don’t think he recognized me but I knew it was him right away. Those photographs are burned into my mind.

He was just there all of a sudden. I came out of work and there he was, just walking down Twenty-Third Street, completely free. The nerve of him to be alive while Carrie — So I followed him. I followed him into a grocery store and watched him buy orange juice and coffee. I followed him to his apartment building and I waited outside. Waited so long my legs were tired from standing.

It started to rain. I was about to leave, just forget the whole thing, and then he came out. I followed him into the subway onto the platform. I stood near him while we were waiting for the train. I could have pushed him right into the oncoming train. I could have done that then. Instead we both got on the train and when he got off, I got off. We went into this church, down in the basement. It was a meeting for people who were trying not to drink or take drugs anymore. I stood in the back. Am I supposed to feel better that the guy who hit your mother with a car is going to some tmeeting? Is that supposed to make everything okay somehow? Other people get up and tell their stories but I’m watching him and all I can think is murderer, murderer, murderer.

I’m going to take care of this. This is what I can do. It’s his fault you have no mother. It’s probably his fault you never cry. I’m going to make sure he’s punished for it.

Category: Play Role: Orville From: Mercy

Orville says

It was my wife you hit with your fucking car. She just went out to get milk. It should have been me you hit instead. We had an argument. It was a long day and I had just come home and she was like, ‚ÄúCan you go to the store?‚Äù and I yelled at her like an asshole. She said, ‚ÄúFine, I’ll do it.‚Äù I should have stopped her. But I was a lazy piece of shit and I let her walk out the door with her big swollen belly. If it had been me, maybe I could have got out of the way when you ran the red light. She couldn’t move as fast because she was carrying our child. Or maybe not. Maybe I’d be dead too. Either way, it should have been me. But it wasn’t. So now I’m here with this gun. (beat) So what do you have to say for yourself?

Category: Play Role: Orville From: Mercy

Orville says

(ORVILLE talking to the ba who is in a bassinet or carrier)

It’s a good idea, they say, to talk to you, even though you don’t know what I’m saying. I wish you would cry. It’s not right. People tell me I’m lucky that you’re not crying all night and all day, but still, it’s not natural not to cry at all. The doctors say there’s nothing wrong with you but I don’t trust doctors anymore and you shouldn’t either.

You could say something. Tell me when you’re wet or hungry. Just say, ‚ÄúHey!‚Äù Can you say that? Hey! Hey. Say, ‚ÄúHey!‚Äù Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Just say it. Like me. Hey. Hey. Hey. Or, you know, something else. I don’t have to control you. You could say ‚ÄúDad.‚Äù Da-da. Da-da. Dad. Dad. Da-da.

Okay, well, whenever you’re ready. Just don’t, I mean you don’t have to hold back on my account. Too many people are not being themselves around me anymore. Feel free to cry and scream and just let go. Neighbors be damned.

No one expected you to live. You’re a miracle, you know that? And you’re fine. They say everything is fine. So go ahead and cry your lungs out. God knows you have reason enough. (pause) No?

(He begins to cry, at first modeling behavior for the ba and then really getting into it.)

ORVILLE

Anhh! Anhh! Anhhh! ANHHH! ANHHH! ANHHHH! ANHHH! ANHHH! ANHHHH! ANHHHHHHHHH!

(BLACKOUT)