Did You Hear About

Gossip.  How talking about someone always hurts relationships and eventually hurts the perpetrator as well.

Cast:        3, any age, male or female

Set, costumes, sound, lighting:     standard

Props:       cell phone

Time:        10 minutes

Script:

Gerry and Marty are standing on stage, whispering behind their hand, as though trying to keep others from hearing.  Tracy comes on stage

Tracy:        Hey Gerry, Marty, how’s things?

Gerry and Marty jump as if they are doing something wrong, gesture to each other “shhhh”

Gerry:        Oh, nothing, nothing, nothing at all!

Marty:       Nope, not doing nothing, not talking, not talking about anyone.

Gerry:        Weather.

Tracy:        Weather?

Gerry:        Yep, weather.

Tracy:        Weather as in . . .?

Marty:       We were talking about the weather.  That’s all we were doing.

Gerry:        Exactly!  Marty and me was just standing here, talking about the weather is all we were doing.  Talking about how nice the hot weather was that we have been having.

Marty:       Man, doncha just love waking up, seeing the sun beating down, another great new hot, sunny day.

Tracy:        OKayyyyyyyy.  Not sure where you guys have been, but it has been raining last eight days straight, sun has never even once peeked through the clouds, not once.

Gerry:        Silly me!  I meant to say, lovely wet weather is what I meant to say.  Yep, that’s it . . . gorgeous downpour wet weather!

Marty:       Great for the farmers!  That’s what Gerry and I were discussing when you came along.  Yeppers, no secrets nor dirty laundry being told around here by myself and Gerry.

Gerry:  No chance, I mean Marty and me, we hate gossip!

Marty:  Ain’t that the truth, I mean, folks that gossip, why they simply are not on our list of friends.

Tracy:   Hey, well I guess that’s good then.  Hey, seeing’s how you guys are busy, got all that weather to talk about, me, I’m just gonna walk on down the road is what I am gonna do.  So, anyhow, have a good day, enjoy the weather talk and all.

Tracy starts to move off stage, Gerry and Marty look at each other

Gerry:        OK, fine, hold up there Tracy, guess you have a right to know what’s going on right under your very nose.

Marty:       I’m with you, Gerry, Tracy has a right to know.

Tracy:        Know?

Gerry:        Exactly.  Why should you be left outta the loop?

Tracy:        The loop?

Marty:       Preeeeciselllyyyyy!

Tracy:        I hate to break this to you guys but I have not clue one what you guys are talking about!  But hey, I really do need to get going so . . .

Gerry:        Mary Cameron.

Tracy, looks around:  Mary Cameron?  Where at is Mary Cameron?  I don’t see her anywhere and I  . . .

Marty:       Mary Cameron’s daughter has brought disgrace to the entire family!

Gerry:        Disgrace, disgrace, disgrace!

Tracy:        Mary Cameron’s daughter has disgraced the family?  How did she do that?

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