You can believe what you wanna believe.
Short drama scene shared from the one-act eplay The Other Half of Madeline about a dark secret kept in a family that finally gets revealed.
Featured Scene – The Other Half of Madeline
LUKE: Billy told me that what you said isn’t the truth.
MADELINE: What I say?
LUKE: That you said he was responsible for killing Lily and he told me that when he smacked you that you thrusted her to the floor in anger…
MADELINE: …That what he said?
LUKE: That’s what he said.
MADELINE: You can believe what you wanna believe, Luke.
LUKE: Is it true or not?
MADELINE: If you think for a second that I would ever do anything to jeopardize the health and well being of my kids, well, you got another thing coming to you. I might be hard, but I ain’t no killer. Call me what you wish but the day I lost Lily, I lost half of me. I go on living cause I’m too scared to die, and because I gotta put up with your dumb face, but I was there, not your father, at that hospital…I was the one who seen it all go down…truth be told your father shoulda gone to jail for life, but I never admitted the truth to the law. When I was questioned, I explained that Lily simply fell out of my arms when I was trying to breastfeed her and that was that.
LUKE: But how could she have died if she simply fell out of your arms?
MADELINE: You wanna know the truth, boy?
LUKE: Yeah!
MADELINE: Yeah?!
LUKE: I said YES damn it! YES!!
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Scene Summary
In the one-act ePlay The Other Half of Madeline, Madeline and her son Luke revisit the past, which reveals the truth of how Lily died.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~5 minute scene
- Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
- Themes: family
- Best For: Drama Scenes
FAQ
A: On Monologue Blogger there is a play script titled The Other Half of Madeline about a child that was killed accidentally.
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Scene Source: The Other Half of Madeline
The Other Half of Madeline is a drama play script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
