100 Monologues is a project by Eric Bogosian featuring monologues written between 1980 and 2006.
Eric originally performed these monologues as segments of Off-Broadway solos directed by Jo Bonney. In 2013, he asked friends if they would each take on a monologue to video.
#28 – “Ceramic Tile”
Performed by Brian d’Arcy James.
“I used to do a ton of touring. This piece is very much about loneliness – eating the cheese burger alone in my hotel room while watching the Nature Channel. It doesn’t matter that this guy is with a hooker. He’s just stuck in the twilight zone of the road. It’s based on a real “ceramic tile salesman” (whatever that is) I met while flying to one of my tour stops.”