So All Alone

So All Alone

a chorus piece .

. by Jeff Goode

(This is a piece for nine players and a disembodied voice--voice from the grid or offstage. Each of the players will speak a variation of the following monologue, with the only major difference being the replacement of the word "room".)

The MONOLOGUE:

Sometimes I feel so alone. I sit in my room and stare at the walls because there isn't anything else. And there isn't anyone to talk to. Because I'm all by myself.

So I just sit in my room and stare at the walls. And I think about all the other people in the world. Four billion people and no two of them alike. And I'm sitting in my room all by myself, because not one of them wants to talk to me. Each and every one of them has something better to do. I've been rejected by four billion people.

And all on the same day.

I sit in my room and stare at the walls because there isn't anything else. And there isn't anyone to talk to. Because I'm all by myself. And I feel so all alone.

(the monologue continues, repeating the final paragraph over and over ad infinitum.)

The SCRIPT:

Wherever a cut-off is indicated (with a double dash [—]), the new speaker takes their cue from that point, but the previous speaker continues to speak the monologue, so that by the end of the piece, there are nine people all speaking the same monologue in dis-unison.

The locations mentioned by each player (in place of "room") are as follows:

ONE - room

TWO - house

THREE - office

FOUR - car

FIVE - yard

SIX - underwear

SEVEN - LazyBoy recliner

EIGHT - Learjet

NINE - favorite restaurant

(The nine players should be of all different physical types, ages, sexes and styles of dress.)

NOTE: The monologues are not all identical. They are edited slightly differently for the sake of timing. Hence the need for 10 different sides for the actors performing the piece:

[Cue script (for director/S.M./L.B.O.) / One / Two / Three / Four / Five / Six / Seven / Eight / Nine / Voice] "So All Alone" IS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL AND MAY NOT BE DOWNLOADED, TRANSMITTED, PRINTED OR PERFORMED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR

January 23, 1987 - No Shame Iowa City

Performed by Greg Jackson, Dede Reznick, Julie Stiner, Craig Chesler, Jeri Schulke, Fred Norberg, Cheryl Snodgrass, and Kirk Griffith

September 4, 1987 - No Shame Iowa City

Performed by Julie Stiner, Jennifer Rives, Ty Lee, Frank Ensenberger, Erin Purcell, Dan Layne, Karen Moeller, Colleen Coover, Dan Gurler, and Mark Gentsch

September 9, 1988 - No Shame Preview (Iowa City)

Performed by Greg Jackson, Amy Pigott, Karen Moeller, Craig Chesler, Heather McCutcheon, Dai Parker-Gwilliam, Stuart Hoyle, Jewels Peter, Jeff Parsons, and Erich Heinz

October 25, 2002 - No Shame Los Angeles

Performed by Chris Clarke, Toni Loppnow, Anthony Backman, Shyla Fernandes, Brett Webster, Brooks Peck, Brian Anderson, Curt Bouril, Sky Palkowitz, and Jared McClurg.

March 12, 2004 - No Shame Los Angeles

Directed by Amy Lynn Pigott
Performed by Nick Zagone, Barbara Grether, Eddie ?, Lisa Grether, Fred Cross, Jonathan Price, Cadry Nelson, Mandi Meilands, Mike Rothschild, Anthony Backman.

May 28, 2004 - Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston)

Performed by Adam Hahn, Meghan Sullivan, Nelson Oliver, Brian Rochlin, Jeff Goode, John Shirley, 3 audience members, Mike Rothschild.

May 20, 2005 - No Shame Los Angeles

Performed by Jenn Harp, Kurt Hargan, Siluo Gompah, Anna Maganini, Jack Archey, Jean Shaw, Ana Lozano, Parnille Trojgaard, Rudy King, Rich Locasso.

March 25, 2006 - No Shame Roanoke

Performed by Jeri Lynn Schulke, Adrien Monti, Tamathy Christensen, Simon Adkins, Adam Hahn, Blue, Steve Breeding, Amy Alls, Ursulla Hull, Jeff Goode

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