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Assignment #2


Directions: Write a scene that builds into a song. Have the song heighten the moment, not push it. Make sure it fits in, and doesn't stand out.

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SCENE:

Curtains up, light up.

SETTING: JACK is sitting at a table, which is only partially on stage. Throughout the scene, unless otherwise noted, he is speaking to someone off-stage.

(MAIA comes on stage. JACK does not turn around or show the slightest hint of noticing her.)

MAIA
Jack?

JACK
So what happened then?

MAIA
Jack, I’d really like to talk to you.

JACK
God, that’s ridiculous. I can’t believe that!

MAIA
I don’t know what to think anymore. Do you still care about our friendship? At all?

JACK
Christ. Some people... Ecch.

MAIA
Look, I know we’ve had some... problems. I know it might be a little weird…

JACK
That reminds me of something that happened to me once.

MAIA
But you’ve got to talk to me about this. Please, I need to hear you say something to me. Anything.

JACK
I guess it was a year or so ago...

MAIA
I feel like we don’t even communicate anymore.

JACK
There was this girl, at first she was cool, but after a while, it wasn’t working anymore.

MAIA
(getting frustrated) Are you even listening to me?

JACK
I don’t even know what happened, but she told me I was the one had changed!

MAIA
Wait a minute –- Are you talking about me???

JACK
She was driving me crazy. So I said, fine, forget it.

MAIA
(getting really angry) What is your problem?? Am I invisible or... Or what?!?

(singing; to the tune of "Smash the Mirror", from The Who’s Tommy)
You don’t even care
If I am dead or alive
Do you wish that
I was never even born?

I don’t think you even know
How much it hurts to feel ignored
The angry burning is building inside me...

Will you listen?
Or must I force you
To face me, come on
And endure my
Fury
Fury
Fury
Fury
Fury...

I’m going to explode
Won’t you talk to me?
I’m going to explode
Won’t you talk to me?

(MAIA attacks JACK, knocking him out of his chair and onto the floor. He gets up, slowly picks up his chair, sits back down, and then turns to MAIA.)

JACK
(Calmly, as if nothing happened; to MAIA) Oh, hey. I didn’t see you there.

MAIA
ARRRGH! I give up! Fuck!

(She storms off. JACK shrugs and turns back to face off-stage.)

(Curtain down)

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