Waiting To Be Called (Monologue)
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Waiting to be called
In a waiting room, there is a sign that says 'no smoking'. A man is ...
sitting in a chair. Suddenly, he gets up and starts walking from one side to
the other, bored
Antônio
look at the clock. Gets anxious
It's already noon! These guys are making a fool out of me! I've been here since 8:30.
morning and no one answers me! This only happens in this country! Oh dentist, hurry up! I have
but what to do! I have to pick up my daughter from school, because she has one today
pediatrics appointment, in an hour! Yes! Yes! Stay calm! Stay calm!
Sit down
Bunch of incompetents! I'm the first patient to arrive, suddenly someone shows up here.
an old woman crying, who had an abscess and suddenly passes in front of me! Then she appears
but people keep pushing in front of me! This is getting worse!
Touch the mobile phone
I'm here...? Hello love!... No! I haven't picked up Catarina from school yet!... I know love! I
I know she has a pediatric appointment today!... No! I haven't forgotten to stop by.
house, to come pick you up!... Fire love, I am not to blame for being late! The dentist is
What an incompetent person who passed others in front of me!... Take it easy, woman!
Don't scold me!... What? What did your mother say?... Your mother said that I am
an irresponsible person?
for the public
Rays spare the old woman never dies!
continue speaking
What? I didn't say anything, my love! Oh love, don't get upset, I'm on my way! You sound like your mother.
Wow! I am! I am! It turned off! Fire, what a day of bad luck! It's the dentist who doesn't call me,
it is my wife who is going crazy and now my mother-in-law is constantly being a witch
insult me! But it has always been like this! You don't even call me by my name, António! Or Tó as
They call me the other people. Call me Jagunço! Have you seen this? Jagunço! And stay like this
to know that Jagunço is what she calls my neighbor's donkey!
Ri
Ah! Ah! Ah! I'm not calling my neighbor a fool, of course! The man is the one who has a
the donkey and that witch calls him Jagunço and then also calls me! She says that
I have some appearances with her! She really is a witch! She says this because she's never seen herself.
Oh mirror! Do you know who she looks like? You don't know, do you? Well, I'm going to tell you!
My mother-in-law resembles Dr. Manuela Ferreira Leite! She is intelligent, but dresses herself...
Facial pain! And with Engineer Sócrates, promises, promises, and never fulfills. Says that one day
She will have to leave us and that will never happen again! She should look in the mirror at home.
first get it! Because the most likely thing is for the mirror to break! The problem is that
She lives in my house!
1
look at the clock
There are 5 minutes to one and this guy is not hurrying up!
ring the mobile phone
I'm?... I'm?... Hello Mr. Duarte! How's it going?... What? I was fired? Then,
But why, Mr. Duarte? Why did you do something like this to me?... Because I am missing
to work?... Oh Mr. Duarte, but I had a dental appointment today, I couldn't
miss!... What? Didn't I warn him? But I... Well, I forgot! Sorry, sir
Duarte!... Am I an irresponsible person?... But oh Mr. Duarte, I didn't mean to do harm! I don't know
it's being seen, but my life is very complicated, now my mother-in-law went there to
house and spends life messing with my head… No Mr. Duarte I am not with
Excuses... Am I?... Oh Mr. Duarte, please see if you understand me! If you do...
Duarte says goodbye to me, my mother-in-law cuts off my head!... Am I not fired anymore?...
Happy
Thank you, Mr. Duarte, I don't know how I should thank you! Tonight I could go there for dinner at
house!... No! No! I am not buying Mr. Duarte at all! But I have
I have something to tell you. When I leave here, I have to go to pediatrics with my ...
Daughter?... What? Am I fired again? Please Mr. Duarte… am I?... Look
turned off!
Irritated
SHIT! But why didn't my mother do one when she was pregnant with me?
abortion?
Chora
At least it was a rest! Poor thing! At this hour she must be looking at me, up in the sky!
Luís Gonçalves
