PAULINE ON THE PLANE — an excerpt

Pauline On The Plane: excerpted from BUILT FOR ABUSE II — ACTING MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN

(Pauline sits on a plane. She speaks to a MAN next to her on the plane.)

PAULINE: I’m scared to death of flying. I was scared of it before, you know, before THAT THING, the THING that happened as it happened, I was scared enough before then, as if flying isn’t frightening enough as it is, flying a machine thousands of feet in the air with a million working parts on it and thus the potential for a million things to go wrong, it’s pretty fucking frightening on ITS…