Jack And Jill Plays - Part 4 - Run

About Jack and Jill Plays:


I'm going to do something new.  Post a short play every day as long as I can.  This does not mean that I wrote this play today but I might have.  (My life is not always my own what with work and a 4 year old running around so maybe I wrote it today or maybe it was stockpiled in preparation for the days I can't get in writing.)  My goal is to do at least 100 of these or maybe more but probably 45 or 50 is the length of a full length play so even that would be good.  100 would be better.  300?  amazing.  500?  Does anyone want 500 of these plays?  Anyway, the goal is consecutive days.


The normal things about plays apply-- don't produce or reproduce this play without my permission.  I wrote it so I own it.  Etc.







Run

by Adam Szymkowicz



(JACK is freaking out.  JILL enters.)



JACK

AAAahgh!



JILL

What?



JACK

I'm freaking out!



JILL

What is it?



JACK

What if I never amount to anything my whole life and it's all just a waste?



JILL

What do you mean?



JACK

I'm a failure.



JILL

Yeah but we all are.



JACK

What?



JILL

Everyone you know is a failure, right?



JACK

I know some people who aren't.



JILL

You don't know them that well though.  It's fine.  It's okay to be a failure.  Now.  Tomorrow.  For a while.  It won't be forever, probably.



JACK

But it could be.



JILL

Well you won't know for a while so relax.  Things could get worse.



JACK

I guess.  Yeah.  I guess. I just want them to get better.



JILL

Are you doing anything about that?



JACK

No.



JILL

Do one thing.  Just one thing.  Today.



JACK

Yeah.  I could do that I bet.  One thing.



JILL

Good.



JACK

Why do you have such a handle on this? You should be freaking out too.



JILL

Yeah, I know.  It's just that I ran a mile and I did it pretty fast so I feel pretty good about myself.



JACK

Should I do that?



JILL

No, don't do that.  You'll just fall on your face and then you'll feel worse.



JACK

Yeah.  You're right.



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