Veronica, the aloe vera, quickly becomes overwhelmed on her supposed day off.
Outline:
Veronica is rudely awoken by her neighbours. Later on she is video called by her parents talking about the usual questions young adults dread. George and the neighbours upstairs come to her apartment to watch the match. George then starts to talk to her parents, whilst Veronica cleans up after the guests. When the hoover breaks, the landlord enters the flat asking about rent and claiming he's too busy to sort the oven out, despite the fact he joins the guests watching the match. Things then get too much for her and in her head she has a go at everyone but in reality she gets up and goes to her bedroom in silence. The nuisance neighbours up then fall through her bedroom ceiling and she screams in anger.
Characters:
Veronica: An aloe vera plant lady, who is: independent, strong headed, sometimes a bit of a doormat
George: A talking cat who lives with veronica, likes to tease, push boundaries and a bit clueless
Veronica's Parents: The mother is an aloe vera plant and the father is a normal person. Both parents are like the typical parents who ask the personal questions and make inappropriate jokes.
The Neighbours: Are loud fleas who live upstairs who like to party often and are a general nuisance.
The Landlord: A lazy man who often makes sexist comments towards veronica and doesn't complete jobs around the apartment.
Locations:
Veronica's Apartment: Living room, kitchen, bedroom
Neighbours Apartment: Outside apartment
Genre: Comedy, with feminist undertones
Audience: Young women
Treatment:
On an early Sunday morning - Veronica, the aloe vera, is rudely awoken by her neighbours having a party above her flat. Dust falls down from the ceiling and cracks are beginning to form. She sits there a while, staring at the ceiling until dust falls onto her face - she gets out of bed with a grunt.
Annoyed she goes upstairs and complains to her neighbours about the noise. The neighbours are big, jock looking fleas. From behind the flea, she can see their apartment is a mess and obviously a party is occurring - but they all freeze to the open door and the music stops. Her housemate George, the cat, can be seen drinking in the flat with the fleas. The flea apologises about the noise and agrees to keep it down. When he shuts the door and Veronica turns to walk away, the fleas soon start the music again and continue their party. Veronica stops, about to turn around she stops herself and sighs.
When she gets back to her flat, her laptop pings up and she sees her parents start video calling her. Looking at her calendar, she realises she has completely forgotten that she was suppose to having dinner with them tonight. At first they don't understand how to use a computer and once they sort it they ask her if she has booked a table for dinner - Veronica comes up with a obvious excuse of being too busy.
George enters the flat with the fleas, sit on the couch and start watching the game. They say they'll keep the noise down, but that obviously isn't the case. Soon after the fleas cheer when their team scores a goal.
Veronica's parents ask if she has a partner, she says she doesn't but George's laugh in the background makes them think otherwise. They change the conversation about how she needs a better life goal, how she needs a partner and how her sister is doing so well at her new job. Luckily, they are quickly distracted by George coming in frame of the camera and start talking to him.
Veronica hears a smash by the bookshelf and notice that a flea has knocked off her handmade clay ornaments. She starts to tidy up after the fleas and hoovers the ornament up which obviously breaks the hoover.
The landlord abruptly walks into the flat with no warning asking about rent and makes a sexist throwaway comment towards Veronica. Veronica explains that'll shell get it to him by the end of the week and if he could check out the broken oven. He explains that he's too busy and will get round to it at "some point". The landlord then sits down on the couch to watch the game with the fleas.
George comes off the video call with Veronica's parents and wishes her luck. George looks down at the broken hoover that she's holding and is surprised thinking they didn't have a hoover. Her parents quickly ask who Samantha is.
The fleas cheer at another goal, her parents start explaining that they don't care if she's a lesbian, the party continues and the ceiling starts to crack dropping dust, and the landlord kicks his shoes off revealing his bare feet.
George walks over to Veronica and asks if she's okay. She then blows up in an angry rage and shouts at everyone to get out the house and shouts at each character with everything they did wrong. Silence.
George asks Veronica if she is alright (previous was in her head) and she silently walks to her bedroom.
She sits on her bed in silence and sighs. Suddenly a bed falls through the cracked ceiling and fleas are all stood on the bed after bouncing.
Veronica screams in anger.
End.
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