My short monologue PATER EST TESTUDO will be performed by Scratch Theatre at the Greenbank Pub, Easton, Bristol on Tuesday, 10th June. It’s one of a series, each featuring a character interacting with a gravestone. Previous monologues have been performed at the Bolton, Octagon and the Cockpit, London. The title translates as Father is a tortoise, a reference to my legendary Latin teacher Mrs Galloway who once tried to make us sing Christmas carols… in Latin.
I have always loved writing monologues, inspired by Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. I love the way the characters put themselves across, the stories emerging organically along the way.
For five years Gillian has secretly visited cemeteries, in search of graves with her missing daughter’s birthday in the forlorn hope of maintaining some kind of connection…
Stephen Connolly Writer 