The Plant
Comedy, negotiating with a houseplant
- Comedy
- Monologue
- 2 min
- Female role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
5 lines- MOI Female role, Adult your role
Excerpt
(A houseplant, yellowed, on a ledge. She talks to it like a patient.)
MOI
Right. Let’s be honest, the two of us. You’ve been sulking for three weeks. I’ve tried everything.
I put you in the sun. You got too hot. I put you in the shade. You sulked. You’re like my aunt: never the right temperature.
I looked online. “Your plant is thirsty.” I watered you. “Your plant is drowning.” There’s no manual with you. Well, there is. There are thirteen, and they contradict each other.
What you can do with it
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