←Recommendations of That Fat Bitch Loved to Run Her Mouth

A monologue of fire and sadness, in turns hilarious and haunting. Well worth your read and worth asking yourself the questions posed here. How do we want to be remembered - with all our edges sanded to oblivion or faithfully?

I had the great fortune of hearing this piece at a Monday Night Critique Session through Working Title Playwrights and all I can say is oh. My. God. There is such power in this monologue and Benjamin Carr's dialogue is simultaneously a gut punch and a feather boa on your skin. Read this monologue. Embrace it. Then produce it. It's a powerful piece tackling family, drug abuse, owning who you are, how we choose to remember the dead, and the way the dead ought to be remembered.

This play will make you re-think family. At a funeral, mourners tend to remember the deceased how they prefer to remember them, and Joe is here to set the record straight about Miss Puppy Mills. You'll find him brash but sincere and I began to mourn for Miss Puppy Mills myself by the end. I loved how in ten minutes, Benjamin Carr addressed so many issues, and did it with endearing style. I have thought about Joe frequently since I read this play, and have to remind myself he's a fictional character. That's great writing.

Carr's 10-minute comic monologue literally is a eulogy delivered about the socially dismissed by the socially dismissed. There are generous portions of "fuck you" sentiment along with heartfelt love and remembrance of true bonds formed. Joe is unpolished, brash, accusatory, and drunk, but he is also too genuine, honest, and humane to be forgotten.

One of the things I love about NPX is stumbling across something I probably never would have encountered if I hadn't seen it recommended on the first page. Benjamin Carr's "That Fat Bitch Loved to Run Her Mouth" Is a case in point, and an angry, funny, touching, and beautifully wrought eulogy to a drag queen who was loved, if not by the people who should have loved her, but by the one(s) who ultimately mattered. I'm so glad this play touched my life.

A very endearing, detailed portrait of a complicated life, told in a rambling and naturalistic style. The central character exemplifies bravery in the face of someone's life being rewritten because their family doesn't accept who they are. The final moments of the monologue are powerful and bring all the threads together so beautifully. This would be a wonderful piece in a play festival that centers LGBTQ and/or Southern family themes. Excellent work!

Upon first hearing the title, I immediately expected a misogynistic play that I would hate, but instead, it was the exact opposite. It is a sweet, endearing monologue about a deceased drag queen and the man who loved her. It is tragic, funny, and completely wonderful. Do not let the title fool you. Anyone with a heart will love this play!