Michael Eichler productions
New York , NY
US

CONTACT NAME

Paul Dederick

DESCRIPTION

Barry monologues

1

Our campus is full of morons. Thousands of idiots are walking around as if everything is fine. Fraternity boys, sorority girls, big men on campus, and that’s just the students. Then there’s the faculty and the administration. The people in charge. They’re worried about the student draft deferments being abolished. Then the only people left in their stupid college will be the lame the blind and the female. No, they actually said it in the paper. Page three… this war is never going to end until we force it to end. We got the ROTC out. But that’s not enough. The whole place has to be shut down. All the colleges around the country, they all have to be shut down. Did you see what that motherfucker Hershey, the head of Selective Service, did you hear what he said the other day? “Those that engage in in illegal activity will be put at the head of the list for induction.” He might as well have said, “Hey you there, yeah you, Barry. Get up to the front of the line. We’re going to send your ass to Vietnam so you can come back in a body bag.

2

I can really feel the rope burns. It’s as if they keep tightening a noose around my neck. It’s around all of our necks. Did you see the Record today? The story about the F.B.I. on the second page? It said Nixon admitted, hell, he announced, that the Justice Department will move on to any college campus that takes Federal money, which is pretty much every college campus, and infiltrate. Infiltrate! They are hiring over 11,000 new agents for the express purpose of spying on activists. My tax dollars at work. They’ll be swarming all over here, as if we’re the biggest threat to democracy.

Here we are trying to stop genocide, racism and pollution and we’re the threat to democracy. Nixon and his cronies are the ones who are tearing this country apart. They are the actual threat to democracy.

They are going to use us to tear the country apart in order to keep getting themselves elected. If that doesn’t work they’ll probably start shooting us one by one.

Sharon Monolgoues

1

I’m on my way to class, minding my own business, doing what I’m supposed to be doing, and there’s a bunch of them, and one of them comes up to me and says, “Hi I’m Barry. Do you want to stop the genocide? I mean he’s bordering on dirty. I wanted to ask him how long it had been since he took a shower. I didn’t even know what genocide means. All I wanted to do was get away from him, so I said ”Of course I do” because that’s what I thought he wanted to hear. He didn’t smile or nod or anything. He just gave me this pamphlet which I told him I would read later because I had to go to class. Well that was a huge mistake –telling him I actually wanted to go to class. But then I made an even bigger mistake. He asked me what class and I said, “Home Management.” He got really angry. He started screaming, “You’re a Home Economics major? Home Economics?” Like I said I was an ax murder or something.

2

I talked to my Mom and Dad and they want me to come home. I know, but they’re Republicans. My grandparents are Republican too. Mom was lukewarm for Nixon but my Dad loves him. He always says America has to act strong and we can’t think the Communists are our friends. Last year that would have been a good enough argument for me, but now, I’m not so sure.

Andy’s not crazy and he’s positive the war is wrong. He says we are fighting because the big corporations want us to, and he says the poor have to take on the biggest share of the risk. I love my parents and I don’t want to upset them. My mom said she thinks it’s dangerous for me to stay here. We have finals next week and if things get bad maybe they would cancel them. I want to go to Don Mclean’s show though. I won’t go home before that. It wouldn’t be fair to Andy.

Andy monologues

1

Man, I went to the coolest meeting today. I just showed up and they made me a member right on the spot. They even let me pick one of the speakers. We decided on everyone for the whole year. You have to negotiate the price, sign contracts, make the travel arrangements. Then you get to meet them, have dinner with them and introduce them. That guy, Barry, runs the whole thing. You know…Barry. He’s in the student paper pretty much every week. Yeah, he’s always going off on somebody and blasting them for their politics. Not just one issue, every issue…the draft, the environment, race relations, and especially the war. I made a suggestion for a speaker and it got approved. Maybe I can hold my own with these New York City kids after all.

2

DURATION

Dec 16, 2024 - Jan 25, 2025

SALARY

$500.00 – $500.00 per gig

APPLY BY EMAIL

1f8cffa8-894d-42c3-8436-0444f5b7e84b…
^*NOTE: Do not copy/paste the above email address as it is encoded with SPAM protection. Just click it to initiate an email from your preferred email client.