Spring Awakening Monologue
| Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind | |
| Character: | Moritz |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age (range): | 35-50 |
| Style: | Drama |
| Length: | 3 minutes |
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The leaves whisper so eagerly. It's
as if I were hearing dead Grandmother tell the story of the Queen
without a Head. She was a perfectly beautiful queen, fair as the sun,
lovelier than all the maidens in the land, -- only she had come into
the world, alas! without a head. She couldn't eat nor drink nor see
nor laugh nor kiss either. She could only make herself understood
to her court through her supple little hand. With her dainty feet
she tossed off declarations of war and death-sentences. Then one day
she was conquered by a king who happened to have two heads that were
always at outs with each other--quarreled the whole year long so hard
that neither let the other speak a word. So the chief court conjurer
took the smaller of the two heads and set it on the queen; and lo
and behold, it was mighty becoming to her; so then the king married
the queen and the two were no longer at loggerheads but kissed each
other on the forehead and the cheeks and the mouth, and lived for
a long, long time after in happiness and joy. . . . Confounded rot!
Since vacation I haven't been able to get the Headless Queen out of
my head! If I see a beautiful girl, I see her without a head, -- and
then all of a sudden I appear as the Headless Queen -- myself! . .
. Well, it's possible that one will be set on my shoulders yet.
