Jack and Jill Plays - Part 21 - Harold

About Jack and Jill Plays:


This is a new thing I'm doing.  Posting 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.










HAROLD

by Adam Szymkowicz



(JACK and JILL enter, exhausted and filthy.  JACK collapses.)


JACK

I don't have anything left in me.



JILL

There's always something more.



JACK

Totally, right, except now.  I'm done.  Finished.  Bury me here.



JILL

What shall I write on your tombstone?



JACK

Write: "I just couldn't do it any more."



JILL

Or I could just put, "Wuss."



JACK

Okay.  Or that.



JILL

You're really done?



JACK

Yeah.



JILL

That's it?



JACK

That's it.  I have failed at everything that could matter.  The long day is done.  The candle is out.  The sun has set.  The mayflies are all dead.  Corn chips don't taste good any more.  Music sounds dumb.



JILL

Maybe let's get to the house and you can lie down.



JACK

I can't make it.  Go on without me.  Remember my name.  Whisper it to the wind.



JILL

I should have married Harold.



(JACK stands.)


JACK

I will continue and persevere.  I will go inside.  I will make you food.  If you never ever say that name again.



JILL

What, Harold?



JACK

NEVER AGAIN!!



JILL

Okay.



(Exit JACK and JILL)



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