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The Diet Monologues by Monica Bauer
#2005-0002
ISBN #1-933159-06-5
Cast Requirements:
In order of appearance...
 | LACEY STEWART |
| JACKIE PARR |
| REV. DELPHINA NASAL |
| MARY ELIZABETH O'BRIEN |
| STEVE LEWANDOWSKI |
| TERRY |
| LISA PARENTE |
| ESTELLE LEVINE |
| SISTER ROSE |
| LINDA STEWART |
This production can be performed with or without an intermission.
Plot Summary
This is a comedy about self-esteem and the roadblocks in the way of self-esteem faced by "people of weight" in American society.
The format is very simple: the play begins with a monologue by Lacey Stewart, a sixteen-year-old mall rat whose best friend has a weight problem. When Lacey takes a terribly insensitive approach to "helping" her friend, she finds herself with a new "best enemy", who is spamming her email inbox with diet ads! Lacey asks her mother for advice, and her mother sends her on a trip through the many faces of life as an overweight person in America. Lacey is sent out to interview an interesting variety of folks Lacey’s mother has met through Weight Watchers.
There are monologues about anorexia, sex, gyms, the ins and out of Atkins, and what real nutritionists would love to say to both the Diet Industry and the Fast Food Industry. There are a wide variety of perspectives here: Jews, Protestants, Catholics, some who have accepted their weight and some who struggle against it. All of it funny, and all of it resonating with the ring of truth.
The last monologue belongs to Lacey’s mother, who ties the whole show together, ending with a glorious celebration of life at any weight.
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Author Biography
Monica Bauer is an award winning playwright, composer, and performer. A graduate of Brown and Yale, she is currently in the Graduate Playwriting Program at Boston University, where she studies with Kate Snodgrass. She has also studied with Craig Lucas as part of the Pataphysics seminars at The Flea Theater in New York City. Monica is member of the Dramatist’s Guild, and ASCAP
PRODUCTIONS
FULL LENGTH WORK
| Retreat, an Equity Showcase Production at the New York Stageworks, NYC |
| I Count On You, performed in the Colorado Women Playwrights Festival |
| The Diet Monologues has been performed in Denver, Providence, Cambridge, and Boston |
SHORT PLAYS
| The Most Important Thing, the Boston Theater Marathon |
| The Klezmer Cowboy, Hovey Summer Shorts Festival |
| Two Monologues, The Breast Pride Movement, and How I Got Kicked Out of School, performed as part of Women for Women at the HERE Arts Center, NYC |
STAGED READINGS
| The Cold War is Over, full-length play, Colorado Dramatists, Denver, Colorado |
| Two Men Walked Into a Bar, one act play, Arlington (Mass.) Center for the Arts New Theatre Works Series |
| Real Estate, one act play, Kennedy Center Region I American College Theater Festival, Providence, R.I. |
AWARDS
| Colorado Women Playwrights Festival, 2001 |
| Finalist, one act play, 2005 Kennedy Center Region I American College Theater Festival |
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