Monologues for Women | "New Year's Wish" by Gabriel Davis

New Year's Wish
Monologues for women 
From the one act play Hello, Goodbye, Peace
​by Gabriel Davis

Here’s how it goes.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Happy New Year!   

You take my face gently in your hands, pull my lips to yours.   Then bringing your arms down around me, your hands come to rest softly but firmly on my shoulder blades.  You pull me into you.   Close.   

I breath in.  My nose buried in your neck.  I breath out.  Ahhhh.  In your arms.  I let it all go.  Everything I’ve been carrying, I let it go.  My shoulders drop.  My neck relaxes.  I’m safe.  I’m ready to begin again.  With you.  

That’s how it goes, Robert.  And its less than one minute to midnight.  But that’s how it goes.  If you stay here.   

Downstairs, they’re all having fun.   They won’t miss us.  Their champagne will flow without us.  Afterwards, their year ahead will march on without us.  And we’ll be … together.   Just you and I.   Because you cared enough to be here with me.  Really here with me.

Down there with them I can't feel your touch.   Your father said if you want to run with the big dogs, you have to get off the porch.  But if you want to run with them … you’re going to leave me behind.

It’s up to you, Robert.  Please.   Only a few seconds left.   What will the new year bring?

5, 4, 3, 2 …. 1.



This monologue is from the play Hello, Goodbye, Peace available in print and digital editions here.   

Get Stage Agent's guide to the play here.

Watch the opening scene of Hello, Goodbye, Peace below.  Find the "New Year's Wish" monologue at a six minutes and four seconds into the video.

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