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Burning Out and Burning Up: 10 Speeches That Go From 0-60<\/strong><\/h4>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Amanda Grace<\/p>\n

March 28th, 2021<\/p>\n<\/font>

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If you’re about to blow a fuse, you’re in luck: plenty of raring-to-go characters are waiting below!<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Yoga Fart<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Gabriel Davis<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Comedic, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s, Adults 30-40s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy wants her big sis, Zelda, to have the perfect wedding\u2026 even if Zelda\u2019s just slept with her boyfriend. In order to make it through the ceremony, Amy throws herself into yoga classes. Now, at the top of the aisle, she confronts her sister with her newfound self-control.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Fog<\/em>\u00a0by Lisa Bruna<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Adults 30-40s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Today was Adam\u2019s daughter\u2019s wedding day, and instead of attending the wedding, Adam\u2019s brother Jaime\u2014living with early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s\u2014stole a weed whacker from Sears. Adam finds Jaime in his yard.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Better Places to Go<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0David-Matthew Barnes<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Comedic, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Bad weather has detained Candace en route to her own wedding. Stuck in a rundown diner in Grand Island, Nebraska, she seizes the moment to let everyone within earshot know just exactly what kind of day she\u2019s had.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Past Time<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Padraic Duffy<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Comedic, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Lou has determined that the solution to all his problems lies in selling hand-painted ceramic unicorns at a mall kiosk, to the chagrin of his wife. He and his best friend have worked tirelessly to get these unicorns ready for sale, and there are a lot of people at the mall today\u2026 but no one approaches him.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Premeditated\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Rodney Rogers<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Dramatic, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n

In a small southern town overshadowed by violence, Mary finally stands up to Ms. O\u2019Brien, the architect of her life\u2019s destruction, by revealing her family\u2019s big secret.<\/p>\n

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This Heat In My Brain\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Tara Meddaugh<\/h4>\n
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(Any Gender, Dramatic, High School 14-18, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sloane implores the person they have just accosted and then assaulted to sympathize with them. Sloane\u2019s argument? They were forced by the heat in their brain\u2014hot as sand on a summer day.<\/p>\n

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Alyssa: A Middle School Monologue<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Asher Wyndham<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Serio-Comic, Kids & Juniors 5-13)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alyssa is here to crash her parent-teacher meeting, and she\u2019s going to make sure her ideas for her own future are heard\u2014especially if that future means she passes on college to become a construction worker.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0The Knowledge of Sin<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Matthew McLachlan<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Mature 50s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Frank has yet to open up to Abbot, his court-ordered anger-management counsellor, about what happened on May 7th<\/sup>. This last session is his deadline to do so if he wants to gain custody of his baby boy over the realities of the foster care system\u2026 a system, it turns out, Abbott knows intimately.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0James Dean and the Devil, Will Jimmy Dean Get Out of Hell<\/em>\u00a0by Rosary O’Neill<\/h4>\n
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(Male, Dramatic, Young Adults 20s)<\/b><\/p>\n

Following his death in a car crash, James Dean enters a life review on the highway of death to save himself from eternal torture. Next stop: his Indiana cemetery burial.<\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Hello, Goodbye\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Gabriel Davis<\/h4>\n
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(Female, Serio-Comic, College 18-22, Young Adults 20s, Adults 30-40s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A barista at a Manhattan coffee shop has had dreams of climbing the economic ladder to change the world. Seeing as it\u2019s her last day before making the move to Wall Street, Alina decides it\u2019s time to let loose on a regular who\u2019s just a tad too entitled.<\/p>\n

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