Accidental Fish

Full-Length

Comedy/Drama

2hrs.

3/f (one doubled) 2/m (one doubled)

Vanessa drinks too much.

Vanessa takes a cornucopia of prescription drugs.

Vanessa’s doctors don’t know what the other ones have prescribed for her.

Vanessa probably shouldn’t wash down the Xanax with Bailey’s Irish Cream.

Vanessa smokes too much.

Vanessa consumes too much coffee.

Vanessa wants to die, really, but her body isn’t on the same page.

Can someone take so many pills every day that their body becomes immune?

VANESSA IS COPING WITH LIFE - - - - - BADLY.

Mother

Always wasting your time, aren’t you. Trying to do things you can’t do. If you get any skinnier, you can just squeeze through those bars.

Vanessa

I’m fat.

Mother

You aren’t fat, you’re skinny.

Vanessa

I’m fat.

Mother

You’re skinny. When you were a girl, then you were fat. Now you’re skinny. I can always tell when you’ve lost weight. It makes your head look unnaturally large.

Vanessa

I’m fat...and I have a big head.

Vanessa writes down everything. She thinks it’s the only thing keeping her sane. Cage? Jesus Vane

JENNA

Even if you write things down, how are you going to keep them straight? How do you know what is influenced by too much alcohol…or your eclectic collection of pharmaceuticals, or hallucinations brought on by recreational drugs, or paranoia, or just plan crazy thinking that comes with a boggled brain? How will you know what’s true and what’s not? What if most of it is some trumped up version of reality filtering through your mind, and a bunch of other things? Jesus, Vanessa, how do you cope?

Vanessa

Remember how much you hated…

jenna

What?

evan

Nothing.

Jenna

It felt like something.

Evan

It wasn’t anything.

Vanessa

Nothing.

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Accidental Fish

Full-Length

Comedy/Drama

2hrs.

3/f (one doubled) 2/m (one doubled)

Vanessa drinks too much.

Vanessa takes a cornucopia of prescription drugs.

Vanessa’s doctors don’t know what the other ones have prescribed for her.

Vanessa probably shouldn’t wash down the Xanax with Bailey’s Irish Cream.

Vanessa smokes too much.

Vanessa consumes too much coffee.

Vanessa wants to die, really, but her body isn’t on the same page.

Can someone take so many pills every day that their body becomes immune?

VANESSA IS COPING WITH LIFE - - - - - BADLY.

Mother

Always wasting your time, aren’t you. Trying to do things you can’t do. If you get any skinnier, you can just squeeze through those bars.

Vanessa

I’m fat.

Mother

You aren’t fat, you’re skinny.

Vanessa

I’m fat.

Mother

You’re skinny. When you were a girl, then you were fat. Now you’re skinny. I can always tell when you’ve lost weight. It makes your head look unnaturally large.

Vanessa

I’m fat...and I have a big head.

Vanessa writes down everything. She thinks it’s the only thing keeping her sane. Cage? Jesus Vane

JENNA

Vanessa

Remember how much you hated…

jenna

What?

evan

Nothing.

Jenna

It felt like something.