It’s A Quiet Place To Chat
Them Candles is a one-act drama play act featuring three characters. Kendra admits to her mother that she’s dating a guy.
KENDRA: It’s a quiet place to chat.
DARLA: And then what? What then?
KENDRA: We talk.
DARLA: And then?
KENDRA: We sometimes go for a walk, there’s a lovely park just across the road…
DARLA: You puttin’ me on?
KENDRA: Stop it, Mom.
DARLA: Change your dress.
KENDRA: Stop it, Mom.
DARLA: Now you take off that dress before I take it off.
KENDRA: Ha, ha, you wouldn’t dare.
(DARLA rises from her couch)
DARLA: (warning) You don’t take off my dress…
KENDRA: …No.
(DARLA lunges at Kendra and they
struggle. Darla rips the dress)
Oh, look what you did!
DARLA: There you go.
KENDRA: Why did you do this to me, Mom? I’m meeting Sam tonight!
DARLA: Sam, who’s Sam?
KENDRA: A fella I met that I been talking to!
DARLA: How long you been talking?
KENDRA: I don’t know!
(KENDRA runs upstairs to her
bedroom)
DARLA: You ain’t going out.
KENDRA: YES I AM!
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In this one-act ePlay, Darla does not want her daughter Kendra going out because she’s been pushing herself too far in spite of her illness. Drama. 2 Women, 1 Man.
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