Diff'rent Strokes...

A short one-scene play.

Setting: The kitchen of Martha Who's childhood home. It is afternoon on the day of the family Christmas dinner. Martha's husband and 2 year old daughter are in close proximity.

It is quiet, before the guests arrive. The calm before the storm. Martha's mom enters from hallway right.

MARTHA'S MOM:

(exuberantly, almost maniacally)

Oh my WORD! I just thought of something fantastic we could do!
Let's put on a Michael Bolton CD!!!

Silence.

CURTAIN.