"UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS" by Wendy Graf

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Free Monologue

Author: Wendy Graf

Synopsis: Jane and Alex are both on the run from truth and loneliness. Their chance meeting in an airport lounge leads to a Burmese odyssey, a search for a missing monk… and maybe love.

Cast Size: 1 Female, 1 Male

“A TOUR-DE-FORCE of rat-a-tat dialogue, interjected with plenty of arcane facts about a fabulously exotic locale… plenty of smiles and a few good laughs on the road to Mandalay.”—Los Angeles Times

“CLEVER, VERY FUNNY… a charming story of love, loss, and new love… [will] charm its way into even the stoniest of hearts.”—LA Splash Magazine

“...Unemployed Elephants is a fascinating often hilarious love story mixed in with a dose of powerful global politics. Such a mix, love and chaos, is absolutely not mutually exclusive and is well blended in this show.”—LA Post-Examiner

“This lighthearted romantic comedy about what it means to really know someone, the real meaning of the truth, and how being on vacation in a foreign country can get people out of their comfort zone is sunny and enjoyable.”—On Stage and Screen

Character: JANE, female, 30s

JANE: I’m on my honeymoon but I am a bride without a groom, a pot without a cover, a ship without a sail. An unemployed elephant. The invitations were out, the showers were held, the dress and veil was in final fittings, my parents paid fifty thousand dollars non-returnable deposit to a party space in Santa Barbara for our vintage rustic wedding in an all white palate. His parents paid the tax on The Road to Mandalay cruise they won in a silent auction with the stipulation it had to be taken in Monsoon season. Last week after the Couples’ shower, after we received four champagne flutes off the register, after my final fitting because I lost ten pounds to look better in my dress he told me it was not me it was him and he didn’t want to get married after all. He did not want to get married to me. I let him keep everything but this trip. I cashed in the two airline tickets for one business class ticket and decided to go anyway while back at home my parents erase all traces of him and move me out of the apartment while I disappear off the grid. That’s all I want to do. Disappear. That was the plan. I’m sticking to the plan. So will you please, please, please let me?