"PRINCE CHARMING'S COMPLAINT"
A Male Monologue
by Bruce Kane

A modern look at the legendary prince who reveals for the first time the truth about the dysfunctional women in his life
including Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

 

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PRINCE CHARMING’S COMPLAINT
By Bruce Kane

Time: The Present

Place: Here and Now

(This excerpts begins a couple of minutes into the monologue)

PRINCE CHARMING: Okay, so I’m a three time loser. What’s the point? The point is gentleman, take advantage of my story and my experience and be very careful when a woman tells you you’re her Prince Charming. Now, in my case that happens to be true, but what man doesn’t believe he isn’t Prince Charming when a beautiful woman tells him he is? And ladies, you know what I am about to say is the absolute truth. All of you become instantaneously irresistible the moment you tell a man he’s your knight in shining armor. It’s all part of this “Happily Ever After Syndrome” that seems to afflict every woman from childhood. Fellas, the truth is you can’t make an unhappy woman happy. It’s an impossible expectation to fill. And if you try, you will fail. And after you fail with one woman, you will try harder with the next woman. It’s human nature. And soon the failures get bigger and the disappointments greater and the self doubt grows and grows until one night you reach that Cialis moment when you hear her say, “Don’t worry honey, it happens to a lot of men.” But, it is possible to break that cycle of expectation and failure. It’s simple, really. If a woman so much as shows the least sign of needing rescuing, talks about knights in shining armor, says the words “happily ever after” or refers, even obliquely, to her mother, or to even having a mother, very politely make your excuses and race for the exits as fast as you can. I know that sounds harsh and a little bitter. And you’re probably asking yourself, “Has this guy turned in his sword and tunic for a monk’s habit?”

(The monologue continues...)

 

 

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