←Recommendations of DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE

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

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.

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.

I could definitely see this being part of a larger piece. Or let me rephrase that- I want it to be.

A compelling character drawn in record time. I hope to see Don Ponzo as part of a longer work in the future

In such a short monologue we discover so much about this man and why he hurts so much. But along the way there is humor and playful word play. A touching and powerful piece.

Wyndham is adept at creating monologues that reveal the wounded creatures hiding behind bravado and denial. When we see what has really pierced Don Ponzo's armor, the audience realizes that they have been caught with their defenses down, too. Disarmingly funny and sweetly sad.