Free Skit - "The Secret"

A skit in response to the best-selling book and it's messed up view of life. Share and Enjoy.

The Secret
By John Cosper

CHARACTERS
Meg- A woman suffering from cancer
Abbie- A woman who thinks she has all the answers

Meg is in a hospital bed, looking bad. Abbie enters with a book in a shopping bag.

ABBIE: Hey there.

MEG: Hey.

ABBIE: How you feeling?

MEG: Not good. The doctors say my cancer's spreading.

ABBIE: Really?

MEG: Yeah, seems like they didn't get all of if when they went in to remove the tumor. It's all over now, and surgery's no longer an option.

ABBIE: Is there anything they can do?

MEG: There's one procedure they could do that would stop it. But the problem is my health insurance provider won't cover it. And I don't have six million dollars to pay out of pocket! What am I going to do?

ABBIE: Meg, what if I was to tell you a secret that would cure everything?

MEG: A secret?

ABBIE: Not just a secret. THE Secret, as written in the best selling book.

MEG: The book? I just thought it was another cheesy self-help book like Dr. Phil writes.

ABBIE: No, Meg. The Secret is what you need to cure your cancer.

MEG: What I need is a better doctor, or better insurance.

ABBIE: No, Meg. What you need is a better attitude.

MEG: Excuse me?

ABBIE: That's right. It's not about getting better medical care or changing insurance. The real problem is, you have a bad attitude about dying and cancer.

MEG: Really?

ABBIE: That's right. It's your bad attitude that's killing you.

MEG: Funny. I thought it was the cancer eating away at my insides!

ABBIE: No, Meg. Cancer's not killing you. Your bad attitude is. And when you read The Secret, you'll discover how a new attitude will make all your problems go away.

Pause. Then Meg punches Abbie in the face.

ABBIE: OW!

MEG: What's the matter?

ABBIE: Meg, that really hurt!

MEG: No it doesn't, Abbie. You just have a bad attitude about being punched in the face!