DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE

by Asher Wyndham

ONE-ACT. Don Ponzo, a postal worker, attends a Renaissance Fair dressed up as a brave knight. It's a way for him to deal with the death of his soldier brother in Afghanistan. It gets complicated when Klingons show up. 15 minutes. This is part of SOME AMERICANS: SOME MONOLOGUES, VOLUME 4.

ONE-ACT. Don Ponzo, a postal worker, attends a Renaissance Fair dressed up as a brave knight. It's a way for him to deal with the death of his soldier brother in Afghanistan. It gets complicated when Klingons show up. 15 minutes. This is part of SOME AMERICANS: SOME MONOLOGUES, VOLUME 4.

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DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE

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  • Cheryl Bear: DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
    “

    A beautiful portrait of a man as he gets on as best he can after the war took someone he loved. Well done.

    A beautiful portrait of a man as he gets on as best he can after the war took someone he loved. Well done.

    ”
  • Emily Hageman: DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
    “

    Wyndham is the voice of the common and the not-so-common people. The reason I say that is because Don Ponzo, wonderful gentle ruined Don Ponzo, is both a remarkable man and a painfully ordinary one. He is wildly funny, but the incredible sadness in him--this unbelievable poignancy that comes flying out of nowhere like a barb directly to the heart--is the thing that makes him so ordinary, but so extraordinary. You want to stare, but you want to look away. This is a truly marvelous monologue. Wyndham, you are a master.

    Wyndham is the voice of the common and the not-so-common people. The reason I say that is because Don Ponzo, wonderful gentle ruined Don Ponzo, is both a remarkable man and a painfully ordinary one. He is wildly funny, but the incredible sadness in him--this unbelievable poignancy that comes flying out of nowhere like a barb directly to the heart--is the thing that makes him so ordinary, but so extraordinary. You want to stare, but you want to look away. This is a truly marvelous monologue. Wyndham, you are a master.

    ”
  • Greg Hovanesian: DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
    “

    Don Ponzo is a man filled with bravado: a postal worker at a Renaissance Faire letting loose emotionally, filling the air around him with loud exclamations of feeling as he releases himself completely. But he’s much more than just some loud guy on vacation: the viewer/reader discovers that there’s much sadness locked inside him, waiting to escape. This monologue is an equally sad and funny look into the soul of a man who has lost something special, and is trying to keep things the same, despite the pain he feels.

    Don Ponzo is a man filled with bravado: a postal worker at a Renaissance Faire letting loose emotionally, filling the air around him with loud exclamations of feeling as he releases himself completely. But he’s much more than just some loud guy on vacation: the viewer/reader discovers that there’s much sadness locked inside him, waiting to escape. This monologue is an equally sad and funny look into the soul of a man who has lost something special, and is trying to keep things the same, despite the pain he feels.

    ”
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Character Information

  • DON PONZO
    Post Office Plant worker and Medieval and Renaissance Fantasy Fair fanatic.
    He wears shiny armor over his clothing. He has a helmet. His breastplate is over an average Joe shirt.
    His leg armor over jeans. He wears sneakers, maybe Converse.
    Maybe a ridiculous codpiece. No shield. No hauberk (mail shirt).
    Any size.
    He's really really bad at Renspeak. He's inconsistent.
    Other times he's inconsistent because he's stuck in a mpeaks emory, and he describes that memory in
    contemporary English. Sometimes he speaks Klingon.
    Late 20s
    Any
    Male
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      Teens,
      20s,
      30s
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Male

Development History

  • Reading, Member Stage Reading, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2017
  • Reading, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN , 2017

Production History

  • Professional, Cone Man Running Productions, Houston, 2015