Fear: A Dramatic Monologue to be Performed without Audience
Lights up on an empty stage. FEAR enters wearing a black top hat and cloak. His lidless eyes are milky white and without pupils. He stalks the stage with confident intensity and a pencil mustache. His gestures are large and dramatic.
FEAR turns his back and removes his cloak. When he turns again his eyes are green. His pupils wide in the light. The pencil mustache has grown out into a bushy red with matching beard. He stands center stage in his hat, a black button-down shirt and gray dress pants. His intensity is more restrained, but no less menacing. He stares straight ahead and speaks with a quiet, measured tone .
FEAR unbuttons and removes his shirt. He unfastens his pants and drops them to the floor, kicking them to the side of the stage. Throughout all of this he does not once break his burning stare, but his rigid spine softens as the spotlight narrows. One beam shines pale in the darkness. FEAR stands quietly center stage in a black t-shirt tucked into blue jeans. He removes his hat to reveal an unkempt head of thick, red hair. His head bows slightly. His posture registers both shame and resolve.
FEAR pulls a chair from out of the shadows and sits, soft eyes fixed straight ahead as the lights fade to black.
