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Monologue Mania Day # 1275 Chirp by Janet S. Tiger (c) Aug. 11, 2017
Chirp
© all rights reserved 2015 tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The person - dressed in night clothes - enters with a can of Raid, they are restless, and more than a little - dare we say it?- crazy eyed. They shut the door behind them, look around)
It's in this room....I've narrowed it to ....this room.....chirp, chirp, chirp.......
(Starts searching)
I know you're in here, I can hear you.....hear, here.....that word is disturbing me...just like you, little cricket, are disturbing my sleep. I need to be up for an early audition, and you are not helping.....You know I don't mind you and your relatives when you are OUTSIDE, so I can shut my windows and not hear you....but this is my home, my castle.....and YOU are the intruder here.......
(Getting more frantic)
(False) I won't hurt you....I promise....I just want to......help you leave my house.....go back to nature, where you belong....
(The searching becomes more noisy and frantic, then a stop, opens the door, pretends to leave)
(Quiet, listening) I gotcha!
(Opens a drawer and sprays furiously)
Nooooo!
Just a spider! But I heard you in there! Are you....a ventriloquist cricket? Maybe I could get you a job in show business.....come out, we can talk about it.....I know a lot of people ......you could be famous........come on out.....you noisy little sucker!
(Opens drawers, closets, very loud. Stops, gets phone)
Yes, Mrs. Mulligan......I am still awake, and I am sorry to be so noisy, but there is a cricket that is keeping me awake and I..... shhhh, I think I see it! I think I see its tiny little sneaky antenna.....hiding, but it can't hide from me......
(Jumps and sprays, victorious)
Yeahhhhhh! I got you!
(Leans in to the cricket)
I know I promised you an audition, but guess what...I lied! Welcome to show business!
(Does a little dance, hears voice from the phone)
Thank you, Mrs. Mulligan, your call brought me luck! (Listens) No....I killed it!
(Cleans up the mess, listens)
Whaddaya mean, it's not lucky to kill a cricket?
(Turns to leave, stops, looks back)
I guess you're right, though, it isn't lucky....FOR THE CRICKET!
(Exits with a big jump. The end..... of the hapless cricket)
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Originally posted Monologue Mania Day #508 Chirp by Janet S. Tiger July 5, 2015
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Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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