BABY BEET AND THE DOGGIE TOY
A children’s comedic/dramatic monologue
By Tara Meddaugh
About the play, The Underground Adventures of a Carrot and Potato:
Vegetables are only supposed to do two things: grow where they’re planted and keep to their own kind. But when a dancing carrot meets a groove-loving potato, their new forbidden friendship inspires them to embark on a quest to change the rules of their stodgy garden society. Their journey won’t be easy, of course, but luckily, our duo is joined by a ragtag team of vegetables with their own reasons to shake up the norm. Can they work together to overcome hungry bugs out to eat them, a dangerously playful dog and that pesky band of mean carrots on the hunt to stop them?
Click for the complete play, The Underground Adventures of a Carrot and Potato.
About the monologue, Baby Beet and the Doggie Toy:
Root vegetables on a journey have just discovered Baby Beet all alone in an abandoned garden. She is an adorable, social, cheerful beet, even though she has experienced the loss of her beet family. She is looking for a new family to join and hopeful to join their group. In the monologue, she tells the other vegetables why she is there: she followed the sound of the dog bark and is waiting to see if it will dig up another treasure, like the donut-shaped dog toy it dug up yesterday, which she loves. She is hopeful the brightly colored dog toys will make her feel happy for a moment, and not miss her family as much.
DETAILS:
Genre: Comedic/Children/Dramatic hints
Running time: Approximately 1 minute
Cast: Female (or any gender)
Age range: 5-12
Setting: Underground soil, the world of root vegetables
Time period: contemporary
Great for/tags: funny, children’s, vegetables, 1-minute monologue, sadness, lonely, hope, family, connection, dogs, sad, happy, coping
EXCERPT BELOW
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BABY BEET
(speaking to the root vegetables who have found Baby Beet. Baby Beet wears a donut shaped hat/dog toy)
I don’t have a beet family anymore. They were all harvested a couple days ago… I’m…on my own now… Wanna know why I’m here?
(The other vegetables nod)
It’s ‘cause I heard the doggie bark, and I followed the bark, ‘cause I wanted to see if it was gonna dig up a treasure or something. Like yesterday, it dug up this hard plastic donut, then chewed it and spit it out! So I grabbed it and put it on my top! See? It looks nice, right? I was pretending that my beet family was still here, and—END OF EXCERPT. For the complete 1-minute monologue, BABY BEET AND THE DOGGIE TOY, click below:
Click below to learn more about Baby Beet and read the entire play, The Underground Adventures of a Carrot and Potato:
This is a comedic children’s TYA play for a minimum of 16 performers to an unlimited number of roles (including ensemble). Running time is around 80 minutes.
Vegetables are only supposed to do two things: grow where they’re planted and keep to their own kind. But when a dancing carrot meets a groove-loving potato, their new forbidden friendship inspires them to embark on a quest to change the rules of their stodgy garden society. Their journey won’t be easy, of course, but luckily, our duo is joined by a ragtag team of vegetables with their own reasons to shake up the norm. Can they work together to overcome hungry bugs out to eat them, a dangerously playful dog and that pesky band of mean carrots on the hunt to stop them?