←Recommendations of CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 - Monologue

Poetic and even more breathtaking as time goes on.

ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN’s play, “Continued On Page 12 - Monologue”, is really beautifully written. The playwright has captured the feelings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Great work!

What a beautiful piece! So concise and yet it is this spareness that allows us to fill in so much and have our own experience with it and the tragedies that are Covid-19 in 2020. Thank you Elisabeth for this!

Amazing how a moment so brief can carry so much meaning. Human and moving. Lovely piece.

Got to see this monologue read as part of the Covid Monologues and it's haunting and so beautiful!!

Haunting and visceral, The American is asking all of the important questions during this moment in time.

A sensorial monologue that takes your body in from the moment you start reading through to the end. A meditation of Covid's final legacies... And a yearning to breathe.

A chilling meditation on trying to understand the unimaginable losses that have become all too normal.

A heart stopper as well as a breath taker. As well it should be. Speckman's monologue takes an unimaginable event we no longer have to imagine, and puts it in a context we can fathom in personal terms. There should be an obligatory silence after this play is performed to give the audience a chance to think about the words they've just heard. Powerful words indeed.

Continued on Page 12 is a snapshot of a moment in history -- the death notifications from covid-19 in the New York Times on May 24, 2020 -- which preceded the death of George Floyd by police violence by one day. The idea of passing a graveyard and holding one's breath can be applied not just to one day of our tragic recent history, but is emblematic of America's failure to act when action was necessary, to the detriment of our entire civilization. We may hold our breaths for a long, long time. This is so powerful.