Playwriting Camp 2023

D1: Oh! Hello. I didn’t see you there. I’m Dr. Adams. Are you the father? Jimmy
looks at Sonia confused, Sonia looks straight at home in the eye and says quickly.
SONIA : Ye-ye-yes, this is my husband Jimmy, Jimmy Wozowsky.
Jimmy looks at her, she nods.
D1 : Well Mr and Mrs Wozowsky, Maria is in a stable coma. We don’t know how long
she’ll be in it though, some people take days, some people take weeks, some people
take months, some even years.
SONIA : Oh, gosh, that doesn’t sound very good. Is there anything you could tell us
to reassure us?
D1 : Unfortunately not ma’am. It is a very unpredictable state. All we can do is hope.
SONIA : Well I will stay here day and night watching over her until she gets better.
SCENE 4
It’s the next day. Sonia is asleep in a chair beside “Maria’’s bed in upstage right.
It’s the break of dawn, the light is little, seeping in from the centre left stage. Sonia
moves into centre stage. Stage goes dark, spotlight on Sonia. SONIA : This poor girl,
all alone in this world. I remember when I was younger, oh how it is so blurred. I
wonder who her real parents are. Are they walking around right now? Or driving a
car. I wonder if they’re dead or alive. Oh god I hope this girl survives. Now I know
what I must do. I’ll take care of her and find her parents too.
Light comes back, Sonia goes back to her chair, Jimmy enters from centre leftstage.
He has trousers on that have paint on them he also has a hard hat.
JIMMY : Hi, honey . How you doing? Just popping in before I go to work. I can’t believe
what you did yesterday.
SONIA : Shhhhhhhh, dear, nobody can know. I’ve had an idea on how to help the poor
girl.
JIMMY : Oh, gosh, Sonia are you joking me, you’re meddling in this girl’s life and you
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