Accidental Fish
© 2007 Paddy Gillard-Bentley
Full-Length
Comedy/Drama
2hrs.
3/f (one doubled)
2/m (one doubled)
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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. |
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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. It probably is. 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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