A play

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for school.....kinda long, take that seta!
tell me whatcha think.

The Lounge Act


Scene I: David’s Basement

David: Thou hope these basement wall will hold the sounds of my sorrows,
Tis cold in hear though, I feel thow’s eyes will remain dry today, if only to sciece from freezing.

(Enter Samuel and band right of stage )

Samuel: Well, shall we be playing today? Or shall we all gather round to descuss the ‘drugerys of this hardend earth’? (laughs)
David: Play we shall, if thee’s blackend heart can handle the pitch of a tune.
Tis not the earth which is hardend, but thee’s own heart.
Samuel: Ha! My heart you say? Hardend? Well, thow much prefures thows ‘hardend heart’ to your own deflated sorrow.
David: Thow...
Samuel: (interupting) Shall we play?

(Plays chord on guitar)

David: Indeed

(Band plays song)

David:(singing) tourtued references
to pulling teeth
my mouth is rotten
enough to speak
of the prophets words to me
about how everything will be
the same for you and me
the inocence of a child
was lost upon me
pulled out by the root
no anastetic, I am pethetic
dont anser my calls
cross me off your list
I've driven too long on icy roads to try to resist
sliped right past
only to be there again
I've taken on
the writers pen
My mouth is drained
about to spew
leaking the juices

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that create something new
in to my mask
hardened to my face
made to last
in good grace
Always I walk
I'll go round and round
looking down at the same blood soaked ground
I wear this crown
a citizens head
from the town
of the dead
Mommy help me!
I lost my balloon
a thousand days
Is too soon
Alive in the shambles
of this bed
the sound of the murder
still rings in my head
Someone soposes, thats why I'm hear
if pleasure is pain
then you need to steer
unlawful asembly
in my brain
drives me to calmness
the quiet insane

(Song ends)

David: Tis you gentelmen ready for tonight? A happy watering hole expects us by reverses noon.
Samuel: Yes, thou thinkest we’ll be ready.
Meet thou there not but two hours in advance to, luricate our personas?
David: (laughs)Indeed.

(Exit David and band right of stage)

Samuel: Thou will be ready, but will thee? Oh tonight you will sighn this bands fate away to happynes’ gloureous hand, or thee will meet thee’s own crule fate. No longer will fourtune smile on me just out of reach. No longer will thee hold thow back from achiveing greatness, thow’s ax would ring to the ears of god himself if it werent for thee!.....No longer my friend, no more.

(Exit Samuel right of stage)

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scene II: Apartment

(Enter Marry and Vince right of stage)

Marry: What does thou wish of your thankful girl toinght?
Vince: For thee to leave me in my pleasent soletude.
Marry: Ok, soledude can get lonley though
Vince: Lonleyness would be a welcome change from overwhelmingly warm!
Thee smothers thoughs every breath.
Marry: I see...(starts to cry)
Vince: (putting marry into a chair) Marry......thou tis sorry for my hostleness. Hay, why doesn’t thee come with thou to a show tonight. A band is playing a humble watering hole
tonight, ‘The Lounge Act’ if their name doesnt fail my memory.
Marry: A watering hole? Litered with drunks it is ......................(wispers to self) but thou
soposes my sadness could be lessened by some music....(speaking up) Very well
Thou will litter theeself among the other sad lonly souls.

Vince: Great! We leave at elevens hour, the band is on at reverses noon.
Marry: hmm......

(Exit Marry left of stage)

Vince: Oh dear Marry, thou feels for you. Thee needs someone to love thee, thou can not fill
that role. Thou will leave the tonight so thee will be free to find true loves lips. Thou
thou hopes thee takes it well.......Marry.
(Exit Vince right of stage)

Scene III: a bar (watering hole)

(Enter David and Samuel left of stage)

David: (signals bartender for two drinks)Any prephernee on a tune to open with?
Samuel: Thou soposes it matters not, for no matter how perfect our tune is heard will will
receave no payment.

David: Samuel, is thee inplieing no payment for the show? How nobal!

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Samuel: Thee would think that wouldn’t thee? Thee’s own nobility will bring thee’s own
downfall.
David: What is thee inplieing?
Samuel: Nothing, thou just wanted to give thee a chance.
David: A chance? For what?
Samuel: (takes paper from pocket, hands it to David) Just read and sighn friend.
David: (reading paper)
By sighning thin paper thou hearby state that thou will sighn to Griffin Records for a
$500,000,000 forward. (Stops reading). Thou has told thee my feelings on the matter.
My anser of ‘no’ is final.
Samuel: Thou is giving you one last chance..
David: What would thee do if thou refuses your final chance? Kill me?
Samuel: Tis that what thee expects of me? To kill my friend of twenty years?
David: If not, then what is thee inplieing?

(Enter Marry and Vince left of stage, sit down at table)

Samuel: Nothing of inportance, come we are on soon.

(Exit Samuel and David right of stage)

Vince: See Marry, this humble hole is quite nice.
Marry: A beautiful place for such sad words to be wipered.
Vince: Thou has said nothing.
Marry: Nothing but nothings, and anything from sweet.
Vince: Thou is sorry for my words never spoken
Marry: Thou has spoken it for nearly three years, under bittered silent breath.
Vince: God damn it Marry! Thee has to keep pushing people away till they snap and really do go
away, Then what will thee do?
Marry:Vince....(starts crying)
Vince: Do you relise happieness makes you cry?! Cry! Oh, cry. Thee loves depresstion cause it
matches thee’s eyes.
Marry: Vince....(crying) sorry...
Vince: No marry, thee asked for this. Thee had to keep pushing.....Thou leaves now, NEVER to
to return.
Marry: Thou loves you

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Vince: Goodbye

(Exit Vince left of stage)

(Enter David, Samuel, and band)

David: (starts singing and playing guitar)*lyrics by Eddie Vedder
Waitin', watchin' the clock, it's four o'clock, it's got to stop
Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech
As he opens the door, she rolls over...
Pretends to sleep as he looks her over
She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better man...
She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better man...
Can't find a better man....
Marry: What’s this? Has love finaly found me in the form of a song? Or perhaps in the singer
himself, comforting my sorrows with his gental words.
David: Talkin' to herself, there's no one else who needs to know...
She tells herself, oh...
Memories back when she was bold and strong
And waiting for the world to come along...
Swears she knew it, now she swears he's gone
Marry: Oh sing! Sing! Sing my my broken heart to sleep, so thou may die happy.

(Band finishes song)

David: (noticing Marry stairing at him) What tis this? A beautiful dove in a woman’s body
Stairs at me with the most beautiful eyes thou has ever bared witness to. Eyes that put my
own to shame. Tis this love? From but a glance? Tis happieness for shure, but love?
Rediculus.....but hear I am........

(Band finishes set with Marry and David locking eyes the entire time)

David: (aproching Marry) Thee’s eyes sang more beautifuly than thou tonight.


Marry: A line to pick thee up?
David: A phrase passed between lovers.
Marry: Are we? Lovers? Thou dosent even know thee’s name.
David: Forgive thou for his rewdness (offors his hand), I am my friends call me david.
Marry: (takes hand) Thou’s friends don’t call, but thee can call me Marry.
David: Oh Marry, a name fit for a goddess!
Marry:(laughs)hmm(wispers in David’s ear) Thee’s comeing on a little strong.
David: (wispers back) Thee is pretending not to want me to.
Marry: (laughs) Well, thou is caught.

Scene IV: outside of bar

(Enter Marry and David through door)

David: Oh beautiful moon! So pretty, yet so alone. Thee will never know the touch of a velvet woman.
Marry: The moon has the sun.
David: But the sun go’s down.
Marry: Tis not so, only an illution caused by the world spinning round’.
David: True, true, my elegent moon goddess.
Marry: You, my god of my heart, are drunk!
David: Drunk once, but sobered by anger, only to be thust back to sweet drunkeness by love!

(Enter Samuel through door)

FinsburyParkCarrots

Hey, Seven, this is a sustained bit of work! I like the way you are going to perform this and send up the whole floweriness of the traditional dramatic way of performing, taking the rip out of the whole poncy Shakespeare bit, whilst actually using some lines in there which are sharp enough to be said by Hamlet himself. You know, I hope you're printing off or writing by hand your work. Keep it. Because a few years down the line, when things are more evened out because you made them cool yourself by being cool, you'll be able to look at some of the gems in this bit of work and rewrite them for another time, and voice them in the language of your heart. Because I read this play and know you're writing from your heart.




Richard

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Samuel: David, thou needs a word, alone.
David: Well, we are all alone.
Samuel: Funny, the groupie must leave.
David: She is not a groupie! She is Marry the love of my life!
Marry: Thank you David.
Samuel: A word.
David: huff...very well.

(David and Samuel move to right of stage)

Samuel: I mearly wish to give you one last chance. (takes paper out from pocket)

To sighn.
David: Tis that all? Then I shall end this quickly.......No.

(David walks away)

Samuel: (takeing gun from pocket) No David! (Points gun at David)
Marry: David look out!
David: (turning around) Tis this how our story ends? With a bullet from thee’s gun? Is thou ready to
commit such an act?
Samuel: Never ready, but willing. No longer shall thou live in near poverty, wile thee refuses wealth.
Not just for thee, but for all of us! No longer will my children go hungry! Die fiend! Die for
your crimes against me!
David: (putting up hands) Sam, I’m......sorry.....I didn’t relise..
Samuel: No, you can’t escape fate’s with surrendering. Die ‘friend’!
Marry: NO!!!!!!!!

(Samuel fires gun, bullet hits David)
(David falls, Marry runs to his body)

Marry: No....David. Don’t die....don’t...don’t do this to thee
David: Thou tis fine, worry not.....(gasps)......worry not my love.
Marry: I love you (crying hystericly)
David: I’ll see you on the flipped side
Marry: One last kiss for thou’s lips, please.
David: Of course (kisses Marry).........goodnight my love.
Marry: See thee tomorrw.
David: Yah (dies)
Samuel: What has thou done, murder.....in the name of wealth......oh god forgive me.( Throws gun to
Marry), please settle this. There tis one bullet left in the chamber, kill thou.....please..
Marry: (points gun at Samuel) Thee taken away thou’s last hope for happieness........Thou should blow
thee away..............but thee has only left one bullet........hmm.....(points gun to her temple)
Samuel: No!! Don’t, don’t, please....
Marry: I would bite my thunb at thee, but my hand is busy, (pulls trigger, kills herself)
Samuel: (crying) God, what have I done. Forgive me.........

(Curtain go’s down)


The End

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Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
Hey, Seven, this is a sustained bit of work! I like the way you are going to perform this and send up the whole floweriness of the traditional dramatic way of performing, taking the rip out of the whole poncy Shakespeare bit, whilst actually using some lines in there which are sharp enough to be said by Hamlet himself. You know, I hope you're printing off or writing by hand your work. Keep it. Because a few years down the line, when things are more evened out because you made them cool yourself by being cool, you'll be able to look at some of the gems in this bit of work and rewrite them for another time, and voice them in the language of your heart. Because I read this play and know you're writing from your heart.




Richard

wow man, thanks....realy. your alright......(insert touching coment hear)

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bumping it so seta can read it even though he wont cuz he'll write LONG ASS poems but wont read them