The Hunt for a Monologue

Today was a very nice day. I am currently on a break from school until May and have been relaxing and sleeping (finally!) The weather was especially nice, so my friend and I spent some time outside and then went to the gym. Being active again felt great! I was starting to get a little lazy and lethargic. After the gym, we grabbed some really great, light food. It was wonderful.

After coming home, I slowly began searching for a new monologue. My only resource for this when I'm at my parents' house is Google, as we live in a rather small town. "Google is amazing," you might say. Well, it is for many things, but when you're a theatre student in Canada who is new to this and you need to find a monologue that was written in the past 10 years, it doesn't do much good. Sure, you can type in "contemporary monologues for women" and it will give you results that fit that category, but "contemporary" does not necessarily mean that it was written within the past 10 years. There is also the fact that our school requires that we only use monologues from published plays, which poses another problem with Google: there are many monologues on the Interweb that are just monologues, floating along in cyberspace hoping for some actor, any actor, to come across them and put them to use. As much as I like many of the ones that I find, I am not allowed to use them. Humph!
I came across this one monologue that I loved. It's from Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang, but it is sadly not something I can use right now as it was published in 1987. I will definitely keep this one for future use, though. It is hilarious!
My friend, Eric, suggested two plays to me after I sent him a text message expressing my frustration and disappointment. I read each one's synopsis and they seemed good, but another problem arose in this situation: they are both so new - as well as Canadian - that even though I can find them listed on Google Books, there are no text previews so I have nothing to go on.
Long story short: I gave up for tonight.

Eric and I are meeting up downtown tomorrow to visit different used book stores and theatre book stores. This should prove to be a more efficient way of hunting than the use of Google. I will inform you of my findings tomorrow.