←Recommendations of You're Working the Checkout at Albertsons

An emotional ride for the audience and the actor. St. Croix not only gives us one intimate portrait of a human being that doesn't get much attention - the grocery store clerk - but also several characters of various ages and types and desires -- that's astonishing in scope and depth. There are layers of personality and psychology and perception that's --- wow. Consider this for your monologue showcase!

What a person goes through working in the retail industry can be described as a different journey every day of the week. That is what Christian has given us here. As an audience you are invited into a snapshot of the clerk's story telling as he stirs all kinds of emotions. It would be a wonderful and powerful piece for any actor to perform because its a piece that holds. You want to know the story and you will be captivated by the moments shared within it.

This monologue puts you through several emotions in a matter of minutes. You're laughing one second and crying the next. The clerk's description all of the experiences that they go through seem very realistic. And as they continue to detail them it makes your heart break. The clerk expresses their need to be touched and it is very reminiscent of the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. A very emotional and impactful monologue. Loved reading this.

If this monologue were a piece of music it would be a rondo. "You're working the checkout ... and you just want to be touched" is the recurring theme that becomes more heartbreaking with each repetition. In between, the clever vignettes the nameless clerk's mind conjures up about his customers become more and more elaborate until reality becomes fantasy--or does it? This play is a great opportunity for actors of any age, gender expression, race, ethnicity, or body type and it will stick with you long after you read it. Great work.

This monologue left me breathless. St. Croix has a gift for pouring humanity into people that we would so often just ignore in our everyday lives.

A gorgeously strange, beautiful, sad, and funny solo piece. You’re Working the Checkout at Albertson’s uses a series of keenly observed vignettes to capture and examine our isolation and loneliness, and, by doing so (to some degree at least?) transcend them. Clearly speaking to our Covid-19 enforced-distancing times, but just as resonant with our atomized contemporary existence in general, this is one pandemic-born play that will remain just as powerful and funny in years to come.

Who is ever so anonymous as the cashiers working the checkout at [name your grocery store]. In about a dozen vignettes all starting with the same phrase - a challenge to the actor's sense of pace and variety - St. Croix creates a portrait that is alternately touching, zany, and funny. Who ever thought such thoughts would go through our grocery checkers' minds.

What a lovely, funny, touching piece about our current moment. It captured so clearly the absurdity and loneliness of now, experiences we are having even when we are with others.