It’s nice to know there’s someone in this house.
In this drama scene taken from the one-act play Laughter in the Distance Marva compares her son to the Grandfather he never met.
Featured Scene – Laughter in the Distance
MARVA: You wanna go out, do you?
TOBEY: Just on the porch, so I can still hear you, in case you need me…is that alright?
MARVA: It gets awfully lonely in here by my lonesome. It’s nice to know there’s someone in this house, other than me but, on a scale of one to ten, ten being the strongest, how bent are you on going outside?
TOBEY: I’d say a twelve.
MARVA: A twelve?
TOBEY: Maybe even a fifteen.
MARVA: My oh my.
TOBEY: Can I?
MARVA: Open that window there…a bit wider.
TOBEY opens up the nearby window.
Alight, I’ll give you the porch, but if I need ya, you MUST and I mean MUST, come runnin’ your linguine legs back in here. Understood?
TOBEY: Why do I have linguine legs?
MARVA: Cause you take after my father that way. He was built like you, or I should say you are built like him.
TOBEY: He was small?
MARVA: He grew into himself, but I can see how you’re shaping up just like he was.
TOBEY: I don’t wanna look like linguine ma.
MARVA: You ain’t gonna look like linguine, not permanently. You gonna look just like my daddy, you seen pictures of him, ain’t ya?
TOBEY: Yeah.
MARVA: Wouldn’t you like to grow up big and strong like him?
TOBEY: Uh-huh.
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Scene Summary
In the one act eplay Laughter In The Distance, Marva is an unhealthy woman who does her best to take care of her son as a single mother.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~5 minute scene
- Characters: 1 woman, 1 boy
- Themes: family, mother / son
- Best For: drama scenes
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Scene Source: Laughter in the Distance
Laughter in the Distance is a dramatic play script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
