The Recycling
Satire, three bins, one doubt
- Satire
- Monologue
- 1 min
- Female role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
5 lines- MOI Female role, Adult your role
Excerpt
(Facing three colour-coded bins. An empty yoghurt pot in hand.)
MOI
Right. The yoghurt pot. Plastic? Yes. So yellow. But the lid is aluminium. So… divorce. Each to its own bin.
There’s yoghurt left at the bottom. Do I have to wash it? Using drinking water to clean a piece of rubbish, is that really saving the planet?
The paper label. Paper around plastic. It’s a hybrid being. It belongs to no world.
What you can do with it
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