Community Voices
Monologue Writing Event
Have you ever wanted to write your own play? Do you have a creative voice that you’ve
wanted to share with the world? Now is your chance to learn how to use your opinions
and journeys of life as a creative outlet through playwriting. The Huron Playhouse is
proud to introduce its Community Voices program, an opportunity for all to harbor their
skills as budding playwrights!
We invite you to attend to our week long workshop located at the Huron Public Library
on May 24th-May 28th and learn how to create a theatrical monologue. All those who
attend the free workshop will be invited to a staged reading of their work at the Huron
Playhouse on June 4th at 8:00pm, where their creative endeavors will be read by
professional actors/actresses.
The theme of this year’s writing will be ideas, thoughts, and feelings related to what you
call Home. Being a resident of Huron, you have a voice as to what home means and we
want to hear it!
If you would like to participate in the Community Voices event, please email your name,
email address, and a small writing sample in the style of a monologue to
[email protected].
Once your writing sample has been received, you will be notified and signed up for the
workshop. Space is limited to 20 monologues, so first come will be first into the
program. This free event is a great way to begin your own theatrical endeavors! See
below for full dates and times:
Creative writing sample due FRIDAY, MAY 20th
Writing workshop at The Huron Public Library:
May 24th-26th from 5pm till 8pm
May 27 and 28th from 12pm till 3pm
Community Voices Staged Readings:
June 4th | 8pm
McCormick School
325 Ohio Street
Huron, Ohio 44839
Having a hard time writing? No need to fear! Remember, the writing sample should be
your attempt at creating a monologue based on the theme of Home and what home
means to you. If you are having difficulty, feel free to read the following example from
the play OUR TOWN as the character Emily waves goodbye to her home forever:
EMILY:
I can't bear it. They're so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old?
Mama, I'm here. I'm grown up. I love you all, everything. - I cant look at everything hard
enough. Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama,
fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama. I married George
Gibbs, Mama. Wally's dead, too. Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North
Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now
we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's look at one another. I
can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't
realize. All that was going on in life and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to
my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's
Corners? Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking? and Mama's sunflowers. And
food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths? and sleeping and waking up.
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever
realize life while they live it? - every, every minute? I'm ready to go back. I should have
listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.