3 Best Josie Monologues

Category: Play Role: Josie From: Once upon a Bride There Was a Forest

Josie says

What happens when you lose your voice.

Instead of talking you choke up. Like you’re going to cry. All the time.

Just to relieve the pressure of all the things you cannot say.

And you can’t even remember why it is that you cannot say them.

You tell yourself they were stupid anyway.

Probably they would have revealed you as the fool you are.

Unfit for human understanding. Unfit for human conversation. Unfit for human anything.

So. Better to be silent. Better to go and stick your head in an oven. Or in a bowl of water. Breathe in water instead of air. Or in a pillow. Fill yourself with something different. `

Gas

Water

Feathers

Anything to fill this awful empty.

Anything.

Category: Play Role: Josie From: Once upon a Bride There Was a Forest

Josie says

What happens when you lose your voice.

You crawl somewhere far inside yourself.

You get lost in caverns of forgotten time.

You stumble onto memories better left untouched.

You imagine that you’ve said what you’ve meant even though you never did.

You remember that even when you had your tongue, you didn’t say what you meant to say.

A lot of times you said the opposite.

And that didn’t help anyone.

But you would have said.

I love you.

I need you.

I think of you and when I think of you instead of you there’s a horrible hole in me. A hole like a forest where nothing is as it seems and nobody knows who I am and its so dark and topsy turvy that I got lost before I even started and I need your light to lead me out again.

Category: Play Role: Josie From: Once upon a Bride There Was a Forest

Josie says

This is my father! This is my Warren! Warren — remember? Remember me? Josie? We live in an apartment an expressway? Sometimes it seems like it’s poisoned? But we won’t be there forever. You wanted to marry me but I kept saying not yet not yet but not because I didn’t love you — I loved you — I love you — but I thought I was missing something I thought I was missing my father — But now I’ve found him and it’s him but it’s not him and he doesn’t even know who I am — I don’t know — I don’t know if he’ll ever remember me.

JOSIE turns to look at EVERETT.

He looks through me. I don’t look like I used to — I’m taller. I’m changed. I’m grown and he doesn’t even know me. How could he? I’m not the kid he left. I’m a stranger standing here. And you left. You left me. Never even looked back.