“Tomorrow’s Wish” – Now in Print!!!!!
Hey everybody, I am happy to announce my new play!
“Tomorrow’s Wish” (written by Wade Bradford) is a full-length, three act play which features a popular monologue (”I kissed a boy once…”) by a character named Juniper.
“Tomorrow’s Wish” is was published in January 2010. It is available at:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/tomorrows-wish/6268146
(The download is only 3 dollars and the print version is $10)
The first act of the play can be viewed at:
www.wadebradford.com/tomorrow.html
Students and actors have permission to perform any scene or monologue from the play. If a school or theater is interested in producing/performing the entire show, send an email to the author: profwade@hotmail.com
You can also check out my recent blog entry about the play. There are some YouTube examples of the monologue that might interest you:
Tomorrow’s Wish: Youtube Monologues
This gives you an idea about her character: trusting, good-natured, innocent compared to most people her age…. and she also has a very special ability. She can grant “temporary wishes.” These wishes come true — but often in unusual ways — and they only last until sunset.
In my original draft, Juniper has a mental handicap — I hadn’t decided if it was down-syndrome or something similar. But as it turned out, her mental disability just didn’t work for what I was trying to accomplish.
So now, in the most recent draft, Juniper is bright but has several learning disabilities — and she’s socially impaired because she spends nearly all of her time with her grand mother on a fair off ranch in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, to help you with the monologue, here’s what her character goes through:
She wants to be friends with her cousin Megan — but Megan doesn’t like her at first.
When Megan learns that Juniper can grant wishes, she starts to use Juniper.
Eventually, Juniper and Megan become good friends, after Megan experiences guilt for using Juniper’s “powers.”
At the end of the play, they try to get Megan’s parents back together — it works for a while, but then falls apart. Don’t worry, though there’s a happy ending.
