THE MUD PUDDLE
Genre: COMEDY/CHILDREN'S
Cast: FEMALE (MALE)
Setting: OUTSIDE, NEAR A MUD PUDDLE
Age range: 5-10 years old
Description: Sophie is standing by a mud puddle. Isabelle has pushed her in the mud puddle two times already and Sophie has resisted the urge to retaliate. Her clothes are muddied and dirtied and she is sick of being pushed around. She speaks to Isabelle.
SOPHIE
If you push me in that mud puddle one more time, I’m gonna…I’m gonna…my mommy said calling people a Poopy-Head is not a nice thing to do, but you are not doing a nice thing to me, so I just might have to call you that. And yeah, so I have mud on me now, but it’s not poop, and having poop on your head is a lot grosser! You think that’s funny? Okay! You can laugh. Maybe you’d like some mud on you then? What—are you gonna run away now? Go tell your mom that I was gonna throw mud on you?—END OF EXCERPT
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