Tomorrow’s Messages
Supernatural, received tomorrow
- Supernatural
- Monologue
- 3 min
- Female role
- Adult
- Intermediate
Casting
5 lines- MOI Female role, Adult your role
Excerpt
(A phone on the table. She listens, her hand over her mouth.)
MOI
Five messages. All from the same number. My number. Received… tomorrow. The phone says “tomorrow, 2:03 p.m.” It’s not possible, and yet there it is.
(She plays the first.)
MOI
“Don’t take the car on Thursday. Trust me. I’m you, a week from now, and I regret it.”
It’s my voice. But more… tired. As if it had been crying, between today and the call.
What you can do with it
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