For this one: You must figure out what has flown into your eye.
WORDLESS MONOLOGUE II (any gender mid-teens to late life)
[Walk a couple of paces across the stage, going somewhere]
[Turn to hit your mark, facing the audience but keep going until suddenly]
[Jerk to a halt and put your right palm over your right eye- something has flown into it]
[Take a couple of steps back onto your mark]
[Take your index finger and run it over your eyelid until you reach the left corner... you're getting the 'speck' out]
[Take your finger away from your eye. What ever hit your eye is now on your finger. Look at it. You've never seen anything like it before]
[It's now traveling down from your finger along the inside of your right arm]
[When it reaches your bicep, smack it with your left hand]
[Pinch in it between your index finger and thumb]
[Raise it up and look at it again. Keep your hand froze in place and more you head towards it]
[Widen your eyes and jerk your head back. What the hell IS this thing?]
[Move your head forward again and take a sniff. Hmmm... not bad.]
[Move your head back. Look one way then the other.]
[Move your head forward again and put the speck in your mouth. Nervously put your hands behind your back.]
[Hold your head completely still except your jaw and lips. Chew, lips closed.]
[Pause]
[Chew some more-- lips closed but bigger movements with the jaw]
[Pause-- keep your head still but widen your eyes and send your gaze toward your mouth-- has this thing actually gotten BIGGER?]
[Keep your lips closed and chew as big as you possibly can. Start breathing anxiously in with your nose]
[Chew even BIGGER until-- you take both hands from behind your back and put your palms to your mouth.]
[Open your mouth into your palms. The make sure the palms are never visible to the audience.]
[Take a look at what's in your palms. Horrified face. Whatever is in your palms is now the size of a chipmunk]
[Horrified. Has anyone seen? Look one way and then the other]
[The thing in your palms begins to move. Cup one palm over the other. The thing is wiggling in your palms. Twitch the right palm. Twitch the left palm. Repeat.]
[Hastily send your palms towards your right pocket.]
[Shove whatever is in your palms into you pocket and immediately put both palms over the pocket]
[Freeze. Look one way. Look the other.]
[Leg starts to twitch-- tickled by the thing wriggling in your right pocket]
[Take an anxious breath. Humanity must be protected from what you've expelled.]
[Walk off, limping slightly on the right side as the thing continues to twitch in your pocket.]
Copyright 2016 by Matt Haynes.
If you would like to use this piece, please credit: "Courtesy of Matt Haynes and The Pulp Stage"
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