monologue available - on behalf of Peter Geldart

[Scott, Shelley]

Monologue available for playwright, actor or production company. Set in
Newfoundland, Placentia Bay area circa. 1940s. Female voice, walks off
page. Colloquial, parochial take on personal and family history, work
(lack of), love, or rather sex, with nostalgia, novelty and humour.
Approx. 7000 words. First page follows (below). This is an unpublished
extract from a new novel by ex-pat Tom Finn (b. 1931), the author of
Malpeque Bay (poetry), Princes (short stories) and Westsiders (short
stories), all well-received. For further information please contact
Peter Geldart at Petra Books, Ottawa Ontario K1S 5P5.
geldart at petrabooks.ca . 613-294-2205. http://petrabooks.ca "



 

 

IWEMEUS extract, Tom Finn November, 2011 _ 

Excerpt from a novel by Tom Finn 

b. 1931, Tom was bred and buttered in the town of Corner 

Brook West, Newfoundland. After working in New Bruns_ 

wick, Prince Edward Island and California, he took up 

residence in Ottawa. A retired federal public servant, Tom 

has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of his island 

homeland. He is especially interested in the transformation 

of the former British colony following the American 

'invasion' in the 1940s, and its union with Canada in 1949. 

For further information please contact 

Petra Books, Fifth Avenue Court, Suite 140, Ottawa Ontario K1S 5P5
Canada 

geldart at petrabooks.ca | 613-294-2205 | www.petrabooks.ca 

 

Working title: IWEMEUS 

Chapter title: Vi 

Word count: 7,300 

 

Testing... 

One...two...three... 

click whirrrr 

Let's see now. 

Testing hello one two three 

whirrrr 

...testing hello one two three 

Okay then. 

Ahem. 

Hi there. My name is Violet, Violet May Drodge, but you can call me Vi
if you 

want to, like all the regulars do down at the lounge at the Harbourview
Lodge. 

Except for you, Napper my love, I mean you're not a regular there are
you, not yet 

anyways, although I hope you will be now. I could see by the way you
were looking 

at me you was half-remembering, right? Was I blushing at all? You must
have noticed. 

And the one you was with, wasn't that one of the Musbury girls? Your
cousin? 

I really don't know why I agreed to be talking into the machine at all.
That big tip 

I suppose, except you didn't need to do that either, made me feel like I
was a, you 

know, one of them, after you come back here with me. And I hope your car
is still 

there behind the Newfoundland Hotel and not towed off like they do
sometimes, 

because they usually only allows guests to park there overnight, didn't
you see the 

notice? Of course they mightn't even bother this time of year, with the
summer 

crowd not here yet, not in full force anyways. 

 

 

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