Jack and Jill Plays - Part 8 - Drive It Home

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.







Drive It Home

by Adam Szymkowicz



(JILL at the doctor's office. She is putting her clothes back on.  DOCTOR writes something.)



JILL

But what do I tell people?



DOCTOR

That's up to you.



JILL

Isn't there like a pamphlet or some advice for something like this?



DOCTOR

Not really.



JILL

WELL WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!



DOCTOR

Take a breath.  You're not dying.  Not yet.  It's just different.  New circumstances to live with and that can be hard and there will be things to think about and treatments to try.  In the meantime just know it's normal.  Our bodies are imperfect.  They let us down.  Things go wrong.  But we have survived a long time as a species.  And we have science.  We will throw everything at it and see what sticks.  Okay?



JILL

Okay, but.  Yeah.  Okay.  Ugh.  I just wanted to be in perfect health for the rest of my life and never worry about anything.  Why can't we have robot bodies?



DOCTOR

We just can't.



JILL

Someday?



DOCTOR

I'd rather not speculate.  I think being human is beautiful and I'd miss it.



JILL

Yeah!  Okay!  I would too!  You're so literal.



DOCTOR

I know.



JILL

Just let me be in denial for a while.



DOCTOR

Okay.  I'll call you in a few days.



JILL

I have to figure out how to live this new way.



DOCTOR

What way?



JILL

Knowing I'll die someday.  I mean I guess I always knew really, but, nothing like this sort of news to really drive it home.



DOCTOR

I'm sorry.



JILL

Not your fault.  Hey, you have stickers or something for kids?  I want a sticker or a lollipop.



DOCTOR

Cardboard chest on your way out.



JILL

Thanks.  You want something?



DOCTOR

Bring me back a sticker?



JILL

Yeah.



(Exit JILL.)





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