Feiffer’s People – Monologue (Hippie)

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A monologue from the play by Jules Feiffer

Hippie

I once wanted to grow up, but then I took a look at the grown-ups around me – complaining about the jobs they hate and dying from boredom months after they retire from them.

Picking wives out of girls they’re not attracted to and remaining attracted to girls who they think are tramps.

Watching T.V. six nights a week so they don’t have to talk to the family, joining a club one night a week so they can talk to the boys.

Preaching to their kids about their inalienable rights, and then when the kids try to exercise a few, warning the to grow up.

Mister to my generation, NOT wanting to grow up is a sign of maturity.

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BALD SOPRANO (MR. SMITH)	WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (Dr. RANCE)
THE SPOTTED MAN (EUGENE)	THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE (GEORGE)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (CHRIS)	ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (ROSENCRANTZ)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (JONATHAN)	ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (ALAN)
THE RELEASE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE (BRENT)	WOLF AT THE DOOR (GARTH)
THE ODD COUPLE (OSCAR 1)	ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (FRANCIS 1)
THE ODD COUPLE (OSCAR 2)	ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (FRANCIS 2)
THE COLORED MUSEUM (THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MISS ROJ)	PETER PAN GOES WRONG (CHRIS)
PETER PAN GOES WRONG (DENNIS)	PETER PAN GOES WRONG (ROBERT)
PETER PAN GOES WRONG (TREVOR)	FEIFFER'S PEOPLE (HIPPIE)
COCKEYED (PHIL)	COCKEYED (PHIL – 2)
GOD OF CARNAGE (ALAN 1)	GOD OF CARNAGE (ALAN 2)
GOD OF CARNAGE (MICHAEL)	BRIGHTON BEACH MEMORIES (EUGENE)
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (CHRISTY)	THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (PADRAIC)
MOJO (BABY)	GOD OF CARNAGE (MICHAEL 2)
BAD HABITS (HUGH)	THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO (FATHER DONNALLY)
I HATE HAMLET (ANDREW)	BOY'S LIFE (PHIL)
BURN THIS (PALE)	I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (HERB)
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (BARNEY)	LAUGHING WILD (A MAN)
THE MATCHMAKER (VANDERGELDER)	THE NERD (WILLUM)
OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA’S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I’M FEELIN’ SO SAD (JONATHAN)	THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE (HARRY)
Hurt Village (Skillet)	LOOKING AGAIN (BILL)
PASTIME (CASEY)	NOISES OFF (LLOYD 1)
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (EUGENE 2)	NOISES OFF (LLOYD 2)
IT'S ONLY A PLAY (FRANK)	SEX LIVES OF OUR PARENTS (ELLIOT)
FORTINBRAS (FORTINBRAS)	GLORIA (SHAWN)
TANGO (STROMIL)	THE VERI**ON PLAY (LARS)
SAY DE KOONING (WILLIE)	APOSIOPESIS (MARCEL)
THE HUNTER’S MOON (SHEP)	THE TWO-MAN KIDNAPPING RULE (VINCENT)
THE TIGER AMONG US (PAO)	EDDIE MUNDO EDMUNDO (NYIN)
TROPICAL HEAT (ERIC)	Codger Talk (Bob)
DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA (ROBBY)	KODACHROME (ROBERT)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (MAN IN CHAIR 1)	PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (BLACK STACHE 1)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (MAN IN CHAIR 2)	PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (BLACK STACHE 2)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (MAN IN CHAIR 3)	My Fair Lady (Mr. Higgins)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (ADOLPHO)	The Man Who Came To Dinner (Beverly)
FEIFFER’S PEOPLE (BERNARD)	THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB WIFE (LEONARD)
POOR JOHN (JOHN)	THE PROFESSION (EUGENE)
ETA PHOENIX (GREG)	PYGMALION (DOOLITTLE 1)
FADING JOY (EDDIE)	PYGMALION (DOOLITTLE 2)
THE SPELLIN’ BEE	DINNER WITH FRIENDS (TOM)
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY (ADAM 1)	SAVAA (SPERANSKY)
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY (ADAM 2)	THE GOAL (SIR STEPHEN)
THE WORKER (MAN)	MOTHERF**ER WITH THE HAT (JACKIE)