FEMALE IDENTIFYING
RACE DAY – KARA (F)
Comedy
Three sisters discover their own path to victory at the annual dragon boat festival. Commissioned for Queens Theater: The Park Plays
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At the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens NY. Kara stands on the bow of a dragon boat.
KARA
LISTEN UP MAGGOTS! TODAY IS RACE DAY! SAY IT WITH ME!
(waits for a response)
WHAT DAY?
(waits for a response)
I CAN’T HEAR YOU! WHAT DAY?!!!!!
(waits for a response)
RACE DAY!!! AHHH!!!!!
She beats her chest in a battle cry.
Now I wanna point out some fundamental things we keep screwing up.
Things my Itay taught me. Things which we will not be screwing up for him today. Okay, pacers.
(looking around)
Sean and Matt, you fell out of sync this morning. You know why?
Because of you SEAN. You’re not listening to me. I’m the drummer. I dictate the pace, not you. The drummer is the heart of the dragon, and once you stop listening to its heart, we’ve lost. So get it together Sean!
(beat)
Remember when we paddle, we use our whole body. You try muscling your way through, you’ll last maybe fifteen strokes. I’m specifically talking to the men on the team. You’re always trying to muscle your way through. Us women don’t have that problem. You know why? Because we put our entire bodies into everything. LEARN FROM US!!
(beat)
And HOLY HELL you guys! Our starting positions are NOT GOOD. Lean forward and out of the boat. This lifts the boat out of the water, making us lighter. A lighter boat means a faster start. And a faster start means what? That’s right. THE BIG W!
Look…I know people call us the bad news bears of dragon boat racing. The truth is, we are. We’re the outsiders. Who do we think we are? Just some small Filipino theatre company competing against the likes of JP Morgan and Corcoran?
They say theatre companies have no place in dragon boat racing. But like every other team here, we deserve to be on this lake in the middle of Queens, the greatest mother effing borough in the city! And yeah, spoiler alert, the bad news bears didn’t win at the end. But they almost won. And that’s because they had heart. And so do we.
What makes us perform shows downtown for ten people in the audience every night? What makes us share a stinky dressing room with mice? What makes us go on despite a bad and poorly written review by DramaMama.com? HEART. If we race with the same heart we have for the theatre, we can get close. And getting close, as long as it’s with you maggots…well, that’s good enough for this bad news bear.
A bell
Okay, here we go. All up! Everyone lean out! And….STROKE!
End of Monologue
STANLEY MOTHERF*CKING KOWALSKI – EUNICE THE NEIGHBOR (F)
Comedy
Eunice, the neighbor, gives Stella Kowalski a much needed pep talk. Written for Caps Lock Theatre: PussyFest
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EUNICE
Girl, I just got three words for you: STANLEY MOTHERFUCKING KOWALSKI. Yeah, you heard right. I’m talking about your man. Always throwin’ shit at you. Always yellin’ at you and then you always come runnin’ to me, good old Eunice, reliable neighbor and confidant.
But you don’t listen to me. You always go back to him everytime he call your name all dramatic and shit. And you fall for it every motherfucking time! Sure, it’s a little romantic I guess for like twenty seconds. But then you know what comes knocking, girl?
Reality! Reality come knocking but you ain’t answering no door for her. You got your gaze out that window.
And I know the only reason you stick with him cuz he gonna be your baby daddy soon and cuz you think he good at sex and all that. But is he good at sex? IS HE REALLY? I don’t think so. I think he good at BORING sex, you know like they do out on the prairie? But we ain’t prairie women! We nawlins women! We should be gettin some crazy voodoo sex. There should be like chanting and shit!
If he call himself a Southerner then he need to be doing some southern gentlemen shit you know what I mean? Like to be tending some crops down south. But he ain’t! Don’t feel bad, neither is my husband! They ALL selfish!
I ain’t selfish. I do all kinds of shit for my man, and the only thing I want from him is to go bowling down my alley from time to time.
Everytime you ask them to do “you know what” they just be whining about how they don’t like the taste of it and their jaw cramping up and shit.
But they be lying. I’ve seen them chewing their jank-ass beef jerky for hours and they don’t complain about jaw cramping. Shit, they like their beef jerky so much, you know what we need to make for them? Some vagina jerky. Yeah, you heard me. VAGINA. JERKY. Make them chew that shit all day long. Strengthen up their jaws. I bet they’d be pleasantly surprised. They’d be like “mmm, this is actually pretty tasty.” Well you’re damn right it’s tasty, cuz it’s my VAGINA motherfucker!
Hey stop looking out that window. I’m trying to tell you something. You could do something different this time. He don’t have to be the end-all-be-all of you. He just Stanley Motherfucking Kowalski. But you girl, you? You are Stella Dubois, the bitch of Belle Reve. You hear me? Good.
Now watcha gonna do Stella Dubois, the Bitch of Belle Reve? Watcha gonna do?
End of Monologue
UNDER THE SEAT IN FRONT OF YOU – IDA (F)
Comedy
An excerpt from THE IMAGINARY ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
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IDA
(to a passenger)
UNDER THE SEAT IN FRONT OF YOU!
(to us)
What is it that you don’t understand? To be clear, items should not be stowed behind your calves, under your feet like a footstool, in the open seat next to you, or in your lap. It’s under the seat in front of you. UNDER THE SEAT IN FRONT OF YOU!
(Beat)
Carry on items. This means something you can CARRY ON! If you need someone else to help you lift your luggage into the overhead bin, that is not carry on. That is gym equipment. Also, don’t ask me when you can DEBARK the airplane. For one thing, it’s called DISEMBARK, not debark. If you debark something, you’re either a lumber jack or a beaver and we
don’t let beavers fly in the cabin. If you’re a lumber jack,
my number is 555-791-9046.
If you’re sitting in the middle seat, you don’t get both armrests. That’s not how the system works. This is coach. Like steerage class on the Titanic. Royalty sits up front. Back here you’re just a pauper.
Oh, and I don’t care if you happen to be an actual princess from Tonga or Sweden. You may be a princess in your own country but on this airplane I’m the Queen bitch and I outrank your ass so I don’t want to hear about your problems I’VE GOT MY OWN LIKE MY DEADBEAT EX-HUSBAND WHO STILL OWES ME MONEY FROM HIS GAMBLING PROBLEM – WHICH HE JUST ACQUIRED AFTER TRYING TO GET RID OF HIS DRINKING PROBLEM BUT NOW HE HAS BOTH BECAUSE YOU CAN’T GAMBLE AND NOT DRINK AT A CASINO OTHERWISE EVERYONE THINKS YOU’RE CHEATING – SO I HAD TO COVER HIS DEBTS WITH THE MONEY I WAS GOING TO USE TO START AN ANGER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP BECAUSE I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE – I REALLY DO I JUST DON’T LOVE HELPING YOU – SO FOR GOD SAKES IF YOU WANT BOTH OF US TO MAKE IT THROUGH THIS FLIGHT PUT YOUR SEAT IN THE FULL UPRIGHT POSITION TURN OFF ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND PUT YOUR DAMN PERSONAL ITEMS UNDER THE SEAT IN FRONT OF YOU!!!
(Beat)
Thank you. And thank you for choosing US Air, the airline
that begins with “You.”
End of Monologue
IN CABIN SERVICE OR SEXUAL CHOCOLATE – NOAMI (F)
Comedy
An excerpt from THE IMAGINARY ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
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Naomi serves cookies down the aisle of a Midwest Airlines flight.
NAOMI
(to passengers)
Cookie? One or two? There you go. Cookie? One or two? There you go. Cookie? Yes, we’re the only airline that serves them fresh. Cookie?
(to us)
I think I was ten the first time I had sex. Yeah, definitely ten. His name was Jerry Hannaford. He was my age. He put this strange thing in my hand and said it was a kiss from him. He said “unwrap it” so I did, and then he said “put it in your mouth.” I put Jerry’s kiss in my mouth and a bouquet of colors exploded under my eyelids.
(She has a moment)
Now, I’ve had many experiences in my life that came close to that feeling. Like tonguing Frankie Fromotino in the fifth grade, or getting stoned watching The Wall when I was seventeen. But you know what? Nothing came remotely close to that time when I put Jerry’s delectable Hershey’s kiss in my mouth. That’s when I discovered…chocolate is sex. So yeah, I was ten years old when I had it. My first chocolate orgasm, thanks to Jerry Hannaford.
(to a passenger)
Cookie? One or two?
(to us)
Since then I’ve had the sweetest affair with chocolate. It was the only thing in my life I could count on, especially in my darkest moments.
(Beat)
Enter Burkett Williams. He had exquisite cocoa eyes and a Crest certified smile. He may have been sitting in coach but that smile belonged in first class all the way. I ran into him again in the VIP lounge before a flight and that’s how my unbreakable love for chocolate met its match. We started dating and I was delighted to see that he supported my sweet toothed lifestyle, randomly bringing me chocolate out of the blue, for no reason at all. It was like having the best of both worlds, chocolate and Burkett rolled into one. My Churkett.
(to a passenger)
One or two?
(to us)
We were into our second year of dating and talking about marriage and kids. And that’s when sweet slowly turned to sour.
(To Burkett)
Oh, but I thought you were hanging with the guys TOMORROW night? Oh, Ok. Well, have fun.
(To us)
And I would pop a snickers bar into my mouth.
(To Burkett)
But you’ve known about meeting my parents for a month now. Fine, I’ll make up some excuse. No, it’s fine.
(To us)
And I would shave off the top layer of a twix bar with my tongue. I have a very strong tongue.
(To Burkett)
No, go to your hoity-toity art lecture or book reading or whatever it is. Just go.
(To us)
And crack goes a Cadbury.
(Beat)
One night he came home late, again, and I started my usual roll-over-in bed-and-ignore-everything routine. But he stopped on his way to the kitchen and said to me…well, something grossly indecent and downright hideous. Six stabbing gut wrenching words that should never be said to a
human being. “You should lay off the chocolate.”
(Beat)
I took a deep breath. I thought about how my mother always taught me not to swear. So I simply said to Burkett…
(to Burkett)
Are you FUCKING mad? Give up chocolate? Don’t you know how chocolate makes me feel, you FUCKER? You should. After all, it was you men who invented chocolate for the sole purpose of controlling us women. From the time those douche bag conquistadors stole cacao seeds from those poor unsuspecting Aztecs, to now, you men have delighted in the powers that chocolate has over us. You took what was once the pure and sacred sweets of an ancient civilization and concocted
confectionery bullets aimed at the clitoris. My clitoris! And speaking of my clitoris, when you’re on top of me poking around with your willie, I close my eyes and I think of another willie. WILLIE FUCKING WONKA. I think of him and his chocolate bunnies and chocolate squares and chocolate morsels. Chocolate FUCKING mountains even. I wish you were chocolate, but you’re not even close. You are nothing but a piece of nougat. Which is fitting because you’re both fluffy and self-centered. Now get the hell out of my life!
(She eats a cookie)
And that was the day I gave up my man-nougat for a lifetime of sexual chocolate with the three loves of my life. Hershey, Godiva…and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies at ten thousand feet in the air.
(to a passenger)
One or two? Go for two.
(winks at the passenger then winks at us)
End of Monologue
VESNA IN THE SKY – VESNA (F)
Comedy
An excerpt from THE IMAGINARY ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
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VESNA
I open my eyes and I’m serving coffee to 16B and the plane takes a dip and then a bigger dip and oxygen masks drop out and 16B’s hair flips up and I realize this entire time he’s been wearing a toupee. And I look at him and his lips and nostrils flare upward and the coffee I just served him is now all over his chest and I’m clutching his arm and I look out his side window and the clouds are flying upward like it’s on a film reel. And then the floor of the plane cracks open right below my feet and I get sucked out but in slow-slow motion and I’m looking back at 16B and he’s looking at me with this toupee still flipped up and he has this “what the hell is going on?” look and I’m thinking why is 16B shrinking right before my very eyes? No, wait. He’s not shrinking at all. I’m getting further and further away from 16B and I pass through a cloud and everything goes white.
I open my eyes and I’m laying in what feels like a snow bank. How long have I been laying here? I can’t make my head move. I can’t make my eyes move. I can only look up…and a cloud passes by. And everything goes white.
I open my eyes and there’s a doctor hunched over me and he says “Chisov.” “Chisov” he repeats. “Chisov.” I say “What the hell is a chisov?” And he says “Who. Who is Chisov?” He continues…“you’re like I. M. Chisov.” I say “You know, you sound a lot like Sean Connery?” He just stares at me. So I say fine, who the hell is I.M. Chisov? “Russian aviator. Shot down in 42. Chute fails to open. Passes out in mid free fall. Lands in a snowy bank at just the right angle. Survives. Like you. You’re like Chisov.” You mean that wasn’t a dream? I thought I was dreaming. Doc says “You fell out of the plane at 33,330 feet. Sounds more like a nightmare than a dream if you ask me.” I say…how – and he cuts in “A combination of your low blood pressure and the temperature kept your heart from bursting until you hit the snow bank at just the right angle and speed.” I say no, I don’t want to know HOW I survived. I don’t ever want to know that. What I want to know is…how do I get myself back up in the air again?
End of Monologue
LANDING – SAMANTHA (F)
Comedy
An excerpt from THE IMAGINARY ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
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SAMANTHA
(to passengers)
Ladies and gentlemen at this time we ask that you turn off all electronic devices, put your tray table up and return your seat to the full upright position as we prepare for landing. Thank you.
(to us)
I was seven years old when my mother read a story to me about Amelia Earhart. She was born in Atchison Kansas, just like me. She became the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic. When I heard that story, I knew immediately I wanted to follow in her footsteps. But unlike Amelia Earhart, I never wanted to pilot a plane. I just wanted to be up in the air, taking care of people. As a kid, I would line up our dining room chairs in two rows and place my teddy bears and my brother in the seats. We would fly to exotic places like China, Russia and Albuquerque.
(Beat)
You’ve probably seen some mean and bitter flight attendants on your flights. I’m not one of them. Even if you’re an irate customer calling me names, you’ll end up liking me. It’s because I sympathize with you. I understand the stress involved when you’re far away from home. My job is to make sure you’re safe and comfortable. But more than that, I make sure you reach your destination.
(Beat)
I’ll tell you a little secret about me. When I walk down the aisles serving snacks and drinks, I pretend I’M an airplane and each one of you is a different cloud. I visit each cloud and ask what you like. When we land I say goodbye and wait for new ones to come in and fill up my airplane. Our airplane.
(Beat)
This is my last flight. Tomorrow I’m getting laid off. Not just me, but a lot of us, including some the pilots and captains. I’m not sure when we’ll be back.
(Beat)
My father wants me to move back to Atchison and sell insurance with my brothers. But that would be…I mean…can a bird still be a bird if it never flies again?
(Beat)
Oh, we’re coming in for a landing. This is my favorite part. There’s a moment before touchdown where the aircraft is about 10 feet above the ground and everything turns silent. The cabin noise fades out, and everything inside you settles slowly towards earth. We’re getting ready to land right now. Here we go. See if you can feel that moment I just described.
(closing her eyes)
And….touchdown.
(opening her eyes)
Did you feel it? Me too.
(Beat)
Thank you for flying with us. It was a pleasure and an honor to serve you today and safe travels as you continue on to the rest of your destination wherever that may be.
End of Monologue