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                    Challenge #2 - Joe B, pick one of your characters from Challenge #1 to meet the character in Jessica's Challenge #1 03/29/2009
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                    (On the stage are two trunks sit to the left and right of center stage.  There is a line of little stones leading downstage left from the stage left trunk.)

                    From stage right, enter the PUPPETEER and the MARIONETTE kissing passionately.  She holds the red rose behind her back.)

                                PUPPETEER
                    This is such a bad idea.

                    (He lowers her to her backward and down on the stage right trunk, kissing her all the while.

                                PUPPETEER
                    We shouldn’t be doing this.

                    (He takes off his jacket and throws it on the ground.  Resumes kissing her.  Out of the stage left trunk, crawls a little GIRL of about five, picking up each little stone.  Slowly she walks down stage and sits.

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    You are so hot.
                     
                    (GIRL sighs.  Marionette pushes him back a little bit.)

                                PUPPETEER
                    What?

                                MARIONETTE
                    Shut up.

                                PUPPETEER
                    You are so hot.

                    (They resume kissing for a moment.  PUPPETEER stops.

                                 PUPPETEER
                    I need a piss.  Do you know where the bathroom is?

                    (MARIONETTE shakes her head.  PUPETEER walks into the audience.  He chooses someone in the audience.)

                                                                     PUPPETEER
                    Is there a toilet in the lobby?

                    (The audience member will probably say yes.)

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    Right back.

                    (He gets back on stage.)

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    We shouldn’t be doing this but you are so hot.

                    (He kisses her again.)

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    I’ll be right back.

                    (Girl signs loudly as puppeteer runs down the aisle and out of the theatre.  Marionette sits on the trunk and twirls the rose.)

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Hey.  Sorry about this.  You know…

                                                                    GIRL
                    That’s all right.


                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    I don’t do this very often, you should know that.

                                                                    GIRL
                    I know.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    It’s not like I’m making choices for you.  You can still do what ever you want when you get to be my age.  Become a nun, you’d have been great at that… will be… if you want.  I didn’t really want to do it, but you know that.  He gave me a rose.  Do you want to see it?

                                                                    GIRL
                    No thanks.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    And he is.  Pretty hot.


                                                                    GIRL
                    Ew.


                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Sorry.              


                    (Marionette stands and paces for a moment.  She decides to sit with the girl.)

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Whacha doing?


                    (Girl looks at Marionette.  Silence.  Girl takes a deep breath.)

                                                                  GIRL
                    Making up a song.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    In your head?

                                                                    GIRL
                    (nods without looking at marionette)
                    Mm hm.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Oh that’s right.

                                                                    GIRL
                    I knew you’d forget.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    No.  I… don’t think that.  I just haven’t thought about it.  It’s just a long since I’ve made up songs.  You’ll understand.  Can I hear it?

                    (Girl looks away.)

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Please.

                    (Girl shakes her head.  Silence.  GIRL HUMS A SONG.  Silence.)

                                MARIONETTE
                    What’s it about?

                                                                    GIRL
                    You.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Wow.  Thank you.  What about me?


                                                                    GIRL
                    About being a grown up.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    HA!  I am not a grown up.


                                                                    GIRL
                    You are so a grown up. 

                                                                   MARIONETTE
                    I am not. 


                                                                    GIRL
                    Oh please.


                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Don’t you think I’d know better than you?

                                                                    GIRL
                    Grown up say that.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    I’m not!


                                                                    GIRL
                    Are too.


                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Am not.


                                                                    GIRL
                    Are too times ten.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Am not times a hundred.

                                                                    GIRL
                    Times a million.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Am not times infinity.

                                                                    GIRL
                    Are too times a billion million zillion fillion!

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    I win.  Infinity is bigger than anything. 

                                                                    GIRL
                    No.
                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Come on.  Don’t you think I’d know than you?                                            

                                                                    GIRL
                    What’s infinity?

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Infinity is everything and you can’t have more than infinity.

                                                                    GIRL
                    Oh.

                                                                    MARIONETEE
                    See.  Told you.


                                                                    GIRL
                    Yeah.  Well.  Only an adult would know what infirmary means.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Infinity.

                                                                    GIRL
                    You were kissing like a grown up.
                                                                    
                                                                   MARIONETTE
                    Yeah.  But that so does not make me an adult?

                                                                    GIRL
                    Yes it does.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Are we doing this again?  I’m totally not an adult.


                    (Silence.) 

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    What?


                                                                    GIRL
                    Nothing.
                                                     
                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    What?

                                                                    GIRL
                    Nothing.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Sorry.  (Silence.)  I’m sorry.  I won’t do it again.

                                                                    GIRL
                    Do you like kissing boys?

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    I do.
                     
                                                                     GIRL
                    I’ve always wondered if I’d get to kiss a boy.

                                                                     MARIONETTE
                    Oh yeah.  Don’t worry, there’s gonna be a lota boys.

                                                                      GIRL
                    Really?

                                                                     MARIONETTE
                    Lotsa boys.

                                                                    GIRL
                    Don’t worry, I know about sex. 

                                                                     MARIONETTE
                    Excuse me?

                                                                     GIRL
                    Just so you know.
                                                        (Beat.)
                    I know everything about sex, I’m not four.  And I don’t think it’s a stork, I don’t believe in the stork, I never believed in the stork.  I’m not a little kid.  But… I believe in the spirit of the stork?  Like, a stork doesn’t come and deliver babies.  That’s stupid.  I saw a stork at school.  They are WAY to small to carry babies.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    There could be bigger storks…

                                                                    GIRL
                    If the stork were real, don’t you think someone would see at least one stork with a baby.  I looked it up on the Internet. Besides, when my brother was coming, I set a trap at his window for the stork.  If the stork was real, I would have caught him.  But the spirit of the stork, I believe in because I could feel it.  When people get married, the stork comes to brings them love.  And that is where babies come from.  Which is really cool, because it means most babies get to grow up with love.  Babies need that.  Do you love him?


                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Who? 
                                                                    GIRL
                    The boy!

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                     I mean, yeah. 

                                                                    GIRL
                    I know.  

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Of course I do.

                                                                    GIRL
                    I’m never kissing someone without love.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Don’t worry, I never would.  

                                                                    GIRL
                    Good.  Does he love you?

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    I don’t know.


                                                                    GIRL
                    You should find out.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Okay.

                                                                     GIRL
                    Because he should love you.

                                                                    MARIONETEE
                    I’ll find out.

                                                                    GIRL
                    It should be fun.  When I grown up, that doesn’t mean I want to stop having fun.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    I sure hope it’ll be fun.


                                                                    GIRL
                    Gross!  It’s okay.  I don’t mind.  I haven’t decided yet anyway.

                                                        (Puppeteer enters from stage left.

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    You have to see what I found… 

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    You okay?

                    (Girl nods.)

                                                                    MARIONETTE

                    Good.

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    Who are you talking to?

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    You found your way back.

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    I found this… it’s perfect.  Way better than the stage. Come on.

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Wait, the stage was your thing.


                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    You’re my thing… You okay?


                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Of course.
                    (Beat.  Marionette gives the rose to the little girl.)
                    So what’s the thing with the rose? 

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    How do you mean?                     

                                                                    GIRL
                    Thanks.

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    Planting it in the stage like that?

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Well, it is yours. 

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    You’re doing it again?

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Wait, what?

                    (Girl smiles and smells the rose as Marionette goes back to 

                                                                   MARIONETTE
                    Sorry, I’m great.  But I guess you don’t know just how great, do you…

                    (Marionette kisses puppeteer as Girl begins to hum her song again.)                         

                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    This is such a bad idea.  

                                                                    MARIONETTE
                    Mmm… 


                    (She kisses him and exits stage left.)
                     
                                                                    PUPPETEER
                    You are hot.  But you know this already. Of course you know it.

                    (He exits behind her as the Girl’s humming comes to the final line of her song.  She sings it aloud as she lays the stones in a path to the stage left trunk.)

                                GIRL
                    MEMORIES WILL FADE
                    AND DAYS WILL PASS
                    SO I HOLD ON THIS IMAGE
                    HOPING SECRETS CAN LAST.

                    (She opens the trunk and suddenly stops before getting in. Beat.  She drops the lid and runs off stage right. Fade to BLACK.)

                     


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