Are we going crazy or what?
Short drama scene from the one-act play They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls is about losing our friends and ourselves.
Featured Scene – They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls
JOE: Heard about Philly?
FRANK: What happened to Philly?
JOE: Died.
FRANK: What??
JOE: Last night. I got the call this morning.
FRANK: The fk outta here.
JOE: Yeah –
FRANK: What happened?
JOE: Listen to this, he got up in the middle of the night, sleepwalking –
FRANK: Noo –
JOE: Yeah, yeah so he goes into his garage –
FRANK: Yeah –
JOE: And he grabs a screwdriver –
FRANK: Yeah –
JOE: And he sticks it into an outlet. Marie found him dead as a doornail.
FRANK: (shocked)…last night…
JOE: Just last night.
FRANK: What is going on?
JOE: I know.
FRANK: First there was Tommy, then Fritz…now Philly.
JOE: I know, I know –
FRANK: What is…all from sleepwalking?
JOE: This is, this is –
FRANK: It’s that fk’n water we drink. Pollutes the brain.
JOE: I don’t know about the water –
FRANK: What then?
JOE: Meds.
FRANK: Noooo –
JOE: They were on those heart pills, weren’t they?
FRANK: Philly was healthy. He’d go on runs every day, he was a health nut, you know that.
JOE: Yeah, but wasn’t he having trouble with a valve?
FRANK: A valve?
JOE: Yeah, one of his valves—the blood wasn’t pumping through right. He had it opened up but they put him on heart thinners.
FRANK: He didn’t take ’em. He told me he wouldn’t take ’em.
JOE: His wife would slip one in his morning coffee.
FRANK: Fk outta here!
JOE: Tammy told me.
FRANK: How’s Tammy know?
JOE: They talk, they all talk, you know that –
FRANK: She killed him.
JOE: I wouldn’t go as far as that Frank, she was trying to look out for ’em.
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Scene Summary
In the one act eplay They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls, Joe and Frank try to figure out why all their best friends are sleepwalking and dying. When they talk with another good friend named Vinny, things get even worse.
- Genre: Serio-comedy
- Length: ~5 minute scene
- Characters: 3 men
- Themes: friendship, community
- Best For: serio-comedy
FAQ
A: There is a performing arts resource called Monologue Blogger that provides various selections of surrealist and absurdist comedy / drama plays.
A: Monologue Blogger has a few scripts you can check out and read titled, They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls, Waking Hours, and Blue Door Ronnie.
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Scene Source: They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls
They Say We’re Boiling Our Brains Inside Our Skulls is a serio-comedy play script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
