February 8 Play: TEA LEAF READER

39: TEA LEAF READER - by Ed Valentine
© February 8, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: Two at a dining table. Drinking from teacups. The mood is very light.

1: My grandmother taught me to read tea leaves.

2: What do mine say?

1: Oh, I haven’t done it for years.

2: Try, try!

1: Well –

2: Go on.

1: Well then: alright.
-
I’m embarrassed.

2: Go on!

1: Well then!
(Focuses. Reads leaves.)
Well then.
(Focuses. Puts the cup down. Looks at 2.)
Well.

2: What? What do they say?

1: -
Let’s just have our tea.

(They sit a long time, both very unsettled. For very different reasons.)

END OF PLAY.