Monologue Option: Reasons to be Pretty PDF

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This was one of the monologue options for the course final. This document may be helpful if you want to get ahead on memorizing so you can master this monologue....

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Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute

Steph: No! That’s not true. Don’t speak for me. (Beat.) You always wanna say shit for me, vouch for me or sign shit that we should both have our names on and I’m not gonna have it anymore… You are not me so you don’t know. (Sits forward.) Listen to me very carefully, OK, ‘cause I’m only gonna say this one time. Fuck o… that’s what I want you to do, Greg, get the fuck out of my life and leave me alone, let me start over in a serious fashion, maybe in a relationship or not, I dunno, but if it is something like that may it please, please be with someone who can keep from being an asshole and all overbearing and thinking they know everything because you dont. You do not know a goddamn thing to do with me is what I’ve discovered in my four years with you. Four years that are now gone… so totally lost and gone that it makes me cry when I see any little bit of our time together. A key ring or, or your name light up on my phone or… shit. (She starts crying.) Fuck, fuck, fuck....