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A monologue from the play by Gina Gionfriddo
ALLISON (twenties)
Allison is obsessed with coming up with a scheme to make as much money as fast as she can and with as little effort as possible.
I cried this morning. I was reading a book about JonBenet Ramsey. . . . This girl who baby-sat her a few times got $5,000 from a magazine.
The lady who cleaned her house got $20,000. These magazines wrote just enormous checks to anyone who ever knew her. (Pause.)
It just seems like you can get a lot of money if you’re in the right place when something really bad happens.
Like that woman who went to the hospital for a Caesarean and got a crazy doctor who carved his initials in her belly.
She got millions of dollars. Just for having a scar. I would have a scar. It just seems unfair. Monica Lewinsky got to go to the Oscars and she wasn’t in any movies!
I want to go to the Oscars!
There are all these people who are not as good-looking and smart as me and they are getting money
and getting on TV and they didn’t do anything except be nearby when something bad happened. It isn’t fair! It just isn’t fair!
I don’t have any money and nobody knows who I am! I want to do nothing and get money and have people know who I am!
(Silence.) I’m sorry. It just . . . came out of me. I’m sorry.
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