October 16, 2026 · daily scene
The Lease Signing
Given circumstances
- Character
- Tenant
- Setting
- Real estate office, lease papers spread across the desk, pen in your hand.
- The moment before
- The landlord just left to make copies. You've been staring at the same page for thirty seconds.
- Scene partner
- Your ex, sitting across the desk in the other chair, holding their own pen
Direction
You thought you were over this. The scene is you discovering you're not. Let that land slowly, not all at once.
Script
Twelve hundred a month, utilities included. That's good for this neighborhood.
We're not doing this.
EXDoing what?
Pretending this is normal. You moved out eight months ago. I learned to sleep on your side of the bed. I got rid of the coffee you liked.
And now we're signing a lease together because the rent is good and we're both adults and it makes financial sense.
EXIt does make sense.
Then why did you keep the mug?
Written for Act It Up. Free to rehearse and perform for practice, classes and self-tapes.
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