The Diet
Comedy, tomorrow, promise
- Comedy
- Monologue
- 1 min
- Female role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
5 lines- MOI Female role, Adult your role
Excerpt
(Facing the audience, a slice of cake, no, the whole cake, in front of her.)
MOI
The diet starts tomorrow. “Tomorrow” is important. Tomorrow is a day scientifically stronger than me.
So tonight, this cake, it’s a farewell. You don’t throw away a farewell. That would be rude.
Besides, a cut cake goes off. So I might as well finish it all: it’s ecology.
What you can do with it
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