I’ve Got This
- Comedy
- Monologue
- 2 min
- No gender marker
- Young adult
- Beginner
Casting
5 lines- MOI No gender marker, Young adult your role
Excerpt
MOI
Everything’s fine. I’ve got this. I have completely got this. Look how I’ve got this.
All right, technically, I cried in the frozen aisle earlier. In front of the peas. I do not even know why the peas. But these things happen to people who have got this.
The trouble is that everyone finds me “solid”. “You’re all right, you’re solid.” Do you know what it means, being the solid one? It means nobody ever asks how you are, because the answer has already been decided.
What you can do with it
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The Chair
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The Plant
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