“Coffee Table” (drama) 1-2 Minutes

Monologue Description: “Coffee Table” is about mental illness.

Character Description: In this monologue, Melanie is a phycho ward patient. She talks to a person that only she sees.

MEALANIE:

My table came to life. I was just staring at it and it came to life. It started with the legs….the legs of the table. They moved first. It was quick and I had to blink really hard a few times to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.

Then t happened again. I was like, “What the heck is going on around here?”

Then I just blatantly stared directly at the table — it was a coffee table–and–glass–glass coffee table– and the glass that sat on the legs of the table opened up and jaws, TEETH, teeth came out like a sharks and it started biting the air and the legs became fully animated and it was a monster now and this monster table wanted to eat me.

…it wanted to eat me…

So I, I ran and got the chair and I bashed it — I bashed the glass coffee table monster.

I killed it…it’s dead!