Growin' Up One-Eyed, Two-Fisted, Bar-Mitzvahed & Unassisted!

Laugh, frown, well up, nod off, wake up and say Amen! to tales of growing up long-haired, short-winded, one-eyed, two-fisted, bar mitzvahed & unassisted in the finest suburbs from Boston to Miami!  It's MONOLOGUES OF A ONE-EYED MENSCH.

All-Star Story Slam Winner (MassMouth, May 2010) and contender for the National Story Slam title (Chicago, June 2010), Merlyn’s Pen founder R. James Stahl writes and performs a show of powerful monologues for adults. Information at 1-800-247-2027 or email merlyn@merlynspen.org (subject: Monologues) for bookings. Read excerpts from the show, below.

Audience writing activities follow the performance by special arrangement.

 

from the monologue MY EYE BOUNCED

"When I was 13, everybody was making bombs -- the P.L.O, the I.R.A, the S.D.S and S.L.A. If you had initials, you had a bomb. So I made one, too ... "

 

from the monologue GOODBYE, EYE

“In those days of worry, everyone cried but me. My father came to Miami and cried in front of my friend Elliot, who cried. My dad’s father, who carried a Yiddish newspaper and offered to have his eye removed so that I might receive it, he cried. My bigwig grandfather in Washington, who said he’d send for the President’s personal physician . . . "

 

from PINKEYE AND A PUNCH IN THE NOSE

“After a few punches from each of us failed to connect, I realized we had more in common with each other than with the  7th graders in the circle egging us on. We put our fists down before anyone got hurt. A few days later, we were buying Slurpees together and joking about brain freeze at the Seven-Eleven near my house.”

from I CHASED A THIEF THROUGH CHICAGO
"The thief, a black man in a white coat, jumped a metal barrier between one parking lot and another, so I jumped it too, on the run. I thought of all the men who had jumped before me, TV cops like Rockford, Friday, Elia Kuriakin, and Mannix. Well-groomed men with unusual names."

 

Call 1-800-247-2027 or email merlyn@merlynspen.org  (subject heading: Monologues) to discuss booking. More about R. Jim Stahl.