Monologue: (2021) Dave Granger, an Army medic at a MASH in Vietnam, is home on leave in Sugar Ridge, Ohio, in June 1974. He talks about one night on duty.
An excerpt from "The Sugar Ridge Rag." Included in the Best Men's Stage Monologues 2023 published by Smith & Kraus.
Monologue: (2021) Dave Granger, an Army medic at a MASH in Vietnam, is home on leave in Sugar Ridge, Ohio, in June 1974. He talks about one night on duty.
An excerpt from "The Sugar Ridge Rag." Included in the Best Men's Stage Monologues 2023 published by Smith & Kraus.
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Marj O'Neill-Butler:
Zero Sum Game
by Philip Middleton Williams
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Did you ever have your eyes water and spill down over your cheeks while reading something? Zero Sum Game did that to me. This is the brief story of the death at the hands of one young man by another. And you understand. You know he did the right thing. But it lingers, this killing.
Did you ever have your eyes water and spill down over your cheeks while reading something? Zero Sum Game did that to me. This is the brief story of the death at the hands of one young man by another. And you understand. You know he did the right thing. But it lingers, this killing.
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Adam Richter:
Zero Sum Game
by Philip Middleton Williams
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War makes for impossible situations. Dave's tale of taking a life while in Vietnam is brief but powerful, and filled with questions. The one that stuck with me the most is: Who has the right to take a life? The killers in the trenches during a battle? The doctor who decides a patient isn't worth saving? The politicians who sent them all to fight in the first place?
This is part of a larger piece but "Zero Sum Game" easily stands on its own as a thought-provoking and powerful monologue.
War makes for impossible situations. Dave's tale of taking a life while in Vietnam is brief but powerful, and filled with questions. The one that stuck with me the most is: Who has the right to take a life? The killers in the trenches during a battle? The doctor who decides a patient isn't worth saving? The politicians who sent them all to fight in the first place?
This is part of a larger piece but "Zero Sum Game" easily stands on its own as a thought-provoking and powerful monologue.
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Franky D. Gonzalez:
Zero Sum Game
by Philip Middleton Williams
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It’s in the act of mercy that we are left with the deepest of questions. Questions about life, about death certainly, about war, about politics, about our place in the universe and our complicity in the worst aspects of the human condition, despite doing the best we can. In this deeply affecting monologue Philip Middleton Williams bring all of these questions up as a medic commits an act of immense philosophical and ethical import, but keeps grounded in the reality of a situation. A halting reminder that the real price of war may well be our humanity.
It’s in the act of mercy that we are left with the deepest of questions. Questions about life, about death certainly, about war, about politics, about our place in the universe and our complicity in the worst aspects of the human condition, despite doing the best we can. In this deeply affecting monologue Philip Middleton Williams bring all of these questions up as a medic commits an act of immense philosophical and ethical import, but keeps grounded in the reality of a situation. A halting reminder that the real price of war may well be our humanity.
