←Recommendations of BOOM - monologue about loss for any gender, any age

02/04/2025 - Wow! A great powerful monologue. There's humor, sadness, and a great character waiting to be performed by an actor or actress. I love the use of fireworks going on in the background. This is sure to have a lasting effect on any audience. Bravo!

Beautiful display of emotion, really makes you relate to experiences of your own.

The confusion and the anger, and all the details, make this a relatable monologue on mourning/grieving. Read this aloud so you hear this character come to life.

Every word of this monologue of numbness and encroaching grief rings true. The specificity of the details are heart wrenching (Oh that Pippin t-shirt ...). I was moved to a place beyond tears.

Arianna Rose takes you right to the event...the feelings...the grief...with this monologue. I found my heart beating faster as the fireworks boomed. A heartwarming piece of writing.

What a powerful monologue of grief and loss - so very raw. We encounter Frankie is the depths of numbness and we feel what Frankie cannot. A wonderful reminder that we never know what a stranger near us is experiencing.

I love Arianna Rose's plays and this monologue is so powerful, visceral and truthful. I love the brilliant and poetic conjunction of watching fireworks--all that light and noise, the here-and-then-gone of it all--with a character in deep mourning for someone they've only recently lost. Beautiful.

A profound and powerful dramatic monologue. I love how Arianna Rose has the main character reflecting on loss while a fireworks show is going on. Theatrical in every sense in the word and will resonate with any audience. Excellent job!

As intimate as a journal entry, BOOM provides a shared experience of grief and loss as endured in a teeming crowd. Intimacy sans privacy. Privacy that manifests like a miracle from its own absence. Frankie is alone in a holiday crowd, untethered yet secure, held up because it’s impossible to fall. Yet unutterably alone.

Rose conveys this with extraordinary balance, complexity and emotion. The details are striking. The acknowledgment about the things we never liked about the person we lost, things we suddenly can’t live without because now we have to.

Reading this was an honor.

What a great piece! Feels very personal, even confession-like. The main character has a lot of feelings that Arianna Rose does a great job of articulating so clearly and in such a moving fashion. Great work. You will definitely enjoy.