Monologue ( 2 min.) "Did you hear me?" written and performed by Bo Roche
Channel: Bo Roche
Date: 2020-01-10

Thanks for watching my monologue.  Please feel free to reach out to me regarding opportunities for acting, voice-over, and writing.

I challenged myself to write a contemporary 1-2 minute monologue for an audition.  I wanted to go darker but didn't like the idea of a bunch of exposition such a short piece.  I decided to try to write something impactful and provoking, but completely generic.  

This piece can be performed regardless of gender, ethnicity, or age.  It is broadly open to interpretation as well, as no specifics are given regarding the trauma, victim, bystander or associated environment.  I hope other people find it useful and I'm publishing the text below for creative commons use.

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Did you hear me?
by Bo Roche

Did you hear me?  That’s the question I still can’t shake.  Years later and it still comes back to me when I get stuck the way I do.  When the past won’t leave me be.  Those ceiling staring nights.

There are a hundred ways I’ve looked at what happened.  A hundred ways that I’ve torn it apart and put it back together, but that’s the part that I keep coming back to.  Which is weird, because I’m not sure it would have mattered.  I get that.

I understand that you aren’t responsible.  I’ve moved on and I’m not here to judge you.  I’m just piecing things together again and I came back to it again.  To you.  Again.  

But I don’t blame you.  How could I when you didn’t do anything... but I guess that’s it.  

That’s exactly it.

I need to know.  I have to know.

I know you didn’t do anything, but… Did you do… nothing?

Did you hear me?
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