Creative play writing – Monologue

Rob is a thirty-five year venerable man, get married to Lucy and has one child named Luke aged three. The monologue is set with him academic term in a chair at home holding his boys teddy, reflecting on his life. However it wasnt always like this. bumpWaste of silver these atomic number 18 (picking up Lukes teddy). Luke never plays with it At least he has a crown over his head and a nice loving family. It wasnt like this for me when I was a child. I was never loved or properly simple machineed for, I never used to get what the other kids did for Christmas and my birth twenty-four hour period. Thats why I leave home when I was seventeen, went on the streets looking for work and thats when I got in to the habit. I just couldnt stop.I made frequent visits to tom turkey, the alcoholic beverage link up doctor about my drink problem. The one that stands out the most was when I was about twenty and it was my birthday. I went to the pub, like usual with whatever money I could find or steal to pay for the drink. I dont c altogether up much(prenominal) of the night except for the landlord telling me I had had too much and that the drink I was drinking was my last one. He had told me clock and time again to get out because the pub had been closed for half an hour.I dont remember everything else but waking up in the alcohol whole at the local hospital feeling very ill with sore pain in my throat and chest. Yes, my stomach had been pumped outagain.not you again ROB Tom had said annoyingly. I could tell Tom had had enough of my visits and this time was going to do or sothing about it. No much drink Rob, how many times, you cant live this way anymore I clearly remember him saying. At the time I didnt agree with any of this but in hindsight he was totally right, although I was young and unreasonable at the time.Tom tried his very best to help me by giving social services a call, who came and spoke to me about my alcohol addiction and accommodation. They said t hey would help move me out of the rough theatre of Birmingham. I bluntly refused saying things like Im fine and I dont enquire any help, when quite plainly I didPauseA few old age later a got a job in a local caf. I was on three pound litre an hour as well, which of course all went on booze.As I didnt know many people I often felt dismay and very lonely. The only thing that kept me going was that one day things would be different, things would change. How lucky I turned out to be.PauseI lost the job in the caf, due to not spell up in the mornings, on several occasions, due to hangovers. Life wasnt good, I just couldnt help myself drinking, I just couldnt stop. As I had no money to buy the drink with I went a few days without it. I became very ill, and had no money to even get some c are for or pills. I tried committing suicide several times, although gratefully unsuccessfully, and was found by this oldish woman, about sixty or so, fiction on a park bench dying.Oli Lee 4PShe t ook me by the strain saying Ill help you son, and I gratefully followed her. We walked acantha to her car (which I immediately thought of stealing, but I couldnt drive) and got in. As left over(p) the park, back to her house I thought that I should give her a chance and not steal anything and see where it got me.When we did eventually get back to her house Madge, which I later found out was her name and was married to Pete who was at the time out on business, quickly got me inside and federal official me. Come on eat this, she said encouragingly, offering me a spliff dinner. I accepted and ate it all very quickly. It was the nicest meal I have ever tasted and still remember it to this day. I had some medicine to help my desperation for alcohol which I had mentioned to her and then had a bath elbow room and went to bed.PauseI clearly remember waking up to the too large silhouette of a man leaning over the bed pure(a) at me.Hello son, he had said. Madge has told me all about yo u. Says shes seen you regularly in the park looking for food and shelter. Says you might need help?I said nothing. Who did he think he was, how did they know me? How does HE know I need help? I kept all these thoughts to myself though which proved a very good decision. My gut reaction was to steal what I could and get out of there, but they had taken me in so I didnt follow the reaction.It turned out that Pete was the manager of a large computer group, Packard Bell. He was looking for a new receptionist emblem person for his companys warehouse. When he asked me to do this, I accepted without any questions. This was a major turning point in my life. Madge and Pete were extremely kind, and I worked as the receptionist there for about three years.I knew that I had outstayed my welcome with Madge and Pete so I bought a house, just down the road, with the money I had save and bonuses Pete had given me.PauseScene is set in his living room with his wife Lucy sitting next to him.Life wa s great, a far abuse from when I was an alcoholic living on the streets. I had even met a woman named Lucy to whom I am now married. We have a son called Luke who is just starting Nursery school.I could never have dreamt this would legislate and it is all down to Madge and Pete. I have also been reunited with my own family who are very proud of me for changing my life and finding happiness now.