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Jacqueline Burroughs Play: The Office Playwright: Kate Hoffower Character: TWO Type of Monologue: Serio-Comic Time: 1 Minute

This monologue is delivered by the character TWO in Kate Hoffower's play The Office. In 1 minute, TWO recalls watching gendered toy commercials as a child that showed girls passively playing with dolls and boys actively adventuring. She told her mother she didn't want to just sit at home and have babies like the commercials portrayed for girls. Her mother suggested becoming a brain surgeon instead, and TWO took this seriously by researching the brain but ultimately struggled with math and science and pursued art instead.

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Jacqueline Burroughs Play: The Office Playwright: Kate Hoffower Character: TWO Type of Monologue: Serio-Comic Time: 1 Minute

This monologue is delivered by the character TWO in Kate Hoffower's play The Office. In 1 minute, TWO recalls watching gendered toy commercials as a child that showed girls passively playing with dolls and boys actively adventuring. She told her mother she didn't want to just sit at home and have babies like the commercials portrayed for girls. Her mother suggested becoming a brain surgeon instead, and TWO took this seriously by researching the brain but ultimately struggled with math and science and pursued art instead.

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Jacqueline Burroughs

Play: The Office

Playwright: Kate Hoffower

Character: TWO

Type of Monologue: Serio-comic

Time: 1 minute

I remember watching cartoons one Saturday morning and seeing this commercial for some doll,

and all these little girls in pink dresses were sitting around, very well-behaved, brushing its hair,

practically melting with sweetness. And the next ad was a bunch of boys skating through a

fantasy world of castles and dragons, yelling and screaming and having the time of their lives.

And then the very next ad was for that same stupid pink doll! So I told my mom about it and she

said “That’s because girls are supposed to sit at home and have babies, and boys are supposed to

go out and have a whole hell of a lot of fun and not worry about anything.” So I said “Well I

don’t want to sit around and have babies. I want to have fun too.” And she said “Great. Be a

brain surgeon.” And I took her seriously. I went to the library and started researching the brain.

But then I started having trouble with math and science. And I eventually gave up med school

dreams for art… I’ve done some fantastic pastels of the temporal lobe.

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