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Here is a 10 min play I wrote. k enjoy

The Rerun
By Josh Harris


Cast
Jessica-The Star
Megan-The Brat
Max-The Lover
James-The killer
Sue-The Granny
Jane-The Director
Producer-The Producer

(The stage is showing a living room set with a couch on stage left and Sue sitting in a rocking chair knitting a sock, rocking back and forth. Dramatic music plays as Max enters from stage left.)

Max: Mrs. Bennot, have you seen Jessica? I need to talk to her about something.
Sue: No honey, I haven't.
Max: Man, I really need to tell her something.
Sue: Well I am sure she will show up sometime.
Max: I suppose…
(Enter James)
James: Max! We need to talk, now!
Max: What? Oh! Have you seen Jessica?
James: Yeah I did, with you, last night!
Max: Dude? What’s wrong?
James: What’s wrong? What’s wrong? I’ll tell you what’s wrong! (Pulls out knife)
Max: Dude! What the heck?
James: How could you? How could you do this to me?
Sue: Oh my! James put the knife down!
James: Not until Max's blood is on it...
Max: Dude!!??! (Ducks behind couch)
(Enter Jessica)
Jessica: What’s going on?
James: Jessica? Hello Jessica. How are you? (Hides knife behind back) Are you feeling well?
Max: He has a knife Jessica!!!
Jessica: What? (Backs up)
(Enter Megan)
Megan: Is this the house of Jessica Bennot?
James: Who are you? (Pulls knife from behind back)
(Megan screams)
Megan: Please! Please! Don’t kill me! I’m just looking for my mother.
(The knife drops to the floor)
Megan: Jessica...I’m your daughter.
Director: CUT! (Director Jane walks on stage and throws the clipboard on the couch) Horrible! Treacherous! Get your acts together people! The producer will be here in (looks at watch) five minutes. We need to show him a show he wont believe!
Jessica: Well, we are doing the best we can. I can’t act with out more to work with so if you would give us more to work with, we could do a better job!
Director: You want more to work with? FINE! I’ll give you more! I don’t see your emotion. Where is the pain? Were is the terror? A madman is going to kill you, surely you can do better then that!!!
Max: I thought she did a fine job.
Director: You have no right to talk to speak. I saw no emotion from you either. You love her Max, you want to marry her. Shout it! Be excited when your asking Sue about where Jessica is. AND Sue when James pulled out the knife, you seemed calm and said oh my. Your terrified that you are going to get killed. Shout to the heavens “OH MY†Scream if you must you don’t want to die. As for you James, you’re a crazy loveless man who lost your one and only love to Max. Your out for blood. Show it, FELL it. Be the killer!
James: I’m about to…
Director: What was that?
James: Nothing
Megan: How do you think I did?
Director: From the top! (She leaves stage)
(Megan, annoyed walks off the stage mumbling)
(Enter Max)
Max: Mrs. Bennot, have you seen Jessica? I need to talk to her about something.
Director: CUT! Max work with me. Get excited. Think about your true love and go with that. Use that emotion.
Max: Fine...Mrs. Bennot have you seen…
Director: Have you seen Jessica?
Max: Have you seen Jessica? I need to talk to her about...
Director: I need to talk to her about something.
Max: I need to talk to about her something.
Sue: No honey I haven't.
Director: Don’t sound so mad Sue! Be kind! You’re a kind grandmother!
Sue: No honey I haven’t.
Director: Not that kind! It sounds like your flirting with him. Don’t do that. A grandmother flirting with her granddaughter’s secret crush that would get a horrible rating. Sue:
(Annoyed and slightly ticked) NO HONEY I HAVEN’T!
Director: My gosh Sue, can’t you do anything right? Now you are yelling at him. Save the anger for when you yell at your grand child for the daughter.
Sue: Can we just go on with it. My back is starting to hurt and if we don’t hurry I’m going to miss my program at seven.
Director: Proceed.
Max: Man, I really need to tell…
Director: I really need...
Max: I really need you to let us get through this once! I need to meet a date at seven at the “Blue Rosesâ€.
Director: Well you will be late cause the producer will now be here in (Looks at watch) four minutes. Four minutes people. Proceed.
Max: I really need to talk to her about something.
Sue: Well I’m sure she will show up, sometime.
Max: I suppose...
(Director makes a motion to say something but max glairs at her and she is silent.)
(Enter James)
James: Max we need to talk now!
Max: What? Oh! Have you seen Jessica?
James: Yeah I did with you last night.
Max: Dude? What’s wrong?
James: What’s wrong? What’s Wrong? I’ll tell you what’s…
Director: WRONG! You are supposed to be crazy. Where is the rage? Where is the anger?
James: Oh it’s coming!
Director: GOOD! Use it. I want to see the fire in your eyes. Proceed.
James: What’s wrong? What’s wrong? I’ll tell you what’s wrong?
Max: Dude? What the heck?
James: How could you? How could you do this to me?
Sue: Oh my…
Director: OH MY
Sue: Oh my, oh oh my. Oh My?
Director: OH MY! It’s not that hard Sue.
Sue: OH MY! James put the knife away!
Director: Down.
Sue: What?
Director: DOWN! The line is put the knife down! Now away! Say your lines right Sue!
Sue: James put the knife DOWN!
James: Not until there is blood...
Director: James. Crave the blood. Your character must want Max dead! So you must make your character crazy. Crave the blood!
James: I’m really starting to…
Director: Proceed
James: Not until there is blood…
Director: Not until Max's blood is on it. Learn your lines people. Why do we rehearse?
James: Look will you just…
Director: Proceed.
James: Not until MAX’S blood is on it!
Director: James! Why are you looking at me? It seems you want to kill me? I’m not in the scene. Talk to Sue. Look at SUE! NOT ME! Max say your line.
Max: Dude? (Ducks behind couch like before)
(Enter Jessica)
Jessica: What’s going on?
James: Jessica? Hello Jessica. How are you? (Hide knife behind back)
Are you feeling alright?
Director: Well.
James: What?
Director: Well James! Your line is WELL!!!
Max: It was close…
Director: It WASN’T THE LINE!
Max: But…
Director: Proceed.
James: Are you feeling well?
Max: He has a knife Jessica!
Jessica: What? (Jessica Backs up)
(Enter Megan)
Megan: Is this the house…
Director: JESSICA! Get scared! He has a knife. Scream or something.
Megan: How did I do?
Director: Alright people! From the top! Start over! And this time impress me! Like that’s goanna happen...
Megan: WHAT?
Director: Start over! Did I stutter?
Megan: Start Over? Oh no no NO! Listen! I have been back here for God knows how long trying to memorize my lines, study for school, and do my homework. I want to live my DREAM! ACT! I’m sixteen years old! Sixteen! I have a life of acting and everything but if you don’t let me rehearse I wont get any better. So you are going to sit down be quiet and let me say MY LINES!!!!!
Director: MY Gosh! This is what I get I get for hiring a little child! A little brat. FINE. Stop crying and go on!
Megan: Ok. (Wipes tears) Is this the house…
Director: BUT KEEP in mind people we now have only (Looks at watch) four minutes until the producer gets here.
(The room is silent)
Jessica: Um… I think her watch is broken.
James: I think her brain is broken…
Director: Now. Proceed.
Megan: Is this the house of…
( A phone goes off)
Director: Hello? OH TOM? How are you honey bear? Me? Oh I am just directing a masterpiece, working with actors that have no experience. Really? Oh you got me reservatons to the “Blues Roses� (Max sighs) Ok honey. Well I really should go. Yeah I know. Ok. I love you too. Kiss kiss. Bye.
(Hangs up)
Director: Ok proceed.
Megan: (Annoyed) Is this the house of Jessica Bennot?
James: Who are you? (James pulls out knife)
(Megan screams)
Director: What was that? What kind of scream was that? Where is the terror? The fright?
(Megan screams unsure)
Director: That sounds like a cat dying!!!
(Megan screams and holds it)
Director: STOP SCREAMING
(Megan holds her scream for five more seconds annoyed)
Director: MEGAN! STOP!!!
(Megan stops)
Director: PLEASE proceed!
Megan: PLEASE! PLEASE! Don’t kill me! I'm only looking for my mother!
(James accidentally drops the knife on his foot)
James: OW my foot! (He causes a chain reaction by tripping the couch over causing Max to jump from underneath the couch causing Jessica to trip over James. Megan goes up to the wall and leans against it clearly getting ticked off)
Director: CUT! What are you guys doing playing circus?
James: My foot! My foot! I think I’m bleeding! Someone get me a band aid!
Megan: Oh suck it up James. Be a man.
James: Listen you…
(Jessica gets up, blood dripping down her forehead)
Jessica: Guys stop fighting.
Megan: Look who’s talking ketchup head. Tried to make the scene dramatic I see.
Jessica: What? (She runs to her purse and pulls out a compact mirror.)
OH MY GOD! I’m DYING!!!!!
Megan: Your not dying.
Jessica: Yes I am. My brain must have exploded or something.
Megan: What brain? I didn’t know you had one.
Jessica: Why you spoiled little brat. Who do you think you are to talk to me like that? I am the star of this program. With out ME we would have nothing,
Max: Um we kind of already do have nothing…
Megan: Bring it!
Jessica: Oh I am going to rip out your hair! (Jessica lunches to Megan)
Sue: Guys! Stop fighting!
Megan: Stay out of this granny. This is between Airhead and me!
Jessica: Um who’s Airhead? Isn’t that candy?
Sue: Now I KNOW you did not call me “granny†little miss Brittany Spears!
Megan: OH! How dare you insult me! I’m goanna get my daddy to sue you!
Max: Guys stop it!
James: Please! Can I get a band aid???
(Jessica grabs the knife)
Jessica: That’s it I cant take it. I don’t know who air head is but I don’t care!!! I am going to kill myself and none of you can stop me.
Megan: Fine go ahead.
James: Why do I care?
(Max thinks)
Sue: OH MY
Max: NO don’t do it.
Jessica: I’m going to! I’m going to do it. (Brings knife up and attempts to slice through.)
Jessica: Oh my GOD!
Megan: Its…
Jessica: BROKEN!
Megan: (Rolls eyes) NO! It’s fake. (Looks at James) How could you get hurt with a fake knife? You are such a drama king!
Max: I can’t believe it’s...fake…
Director: CUT!!!! Tell me you got that! That was brilliant! WONDERFUL! I Saw so much emotion, so much terror. I LOVED it! Superb! Jessica when you lunged for the knife I held my breath. I laughed! I cried! It’s genius! I’m a GENIUS!!! Now do that again! The producer will be here in two minutes and this drama will nock him dead!
(The room is silent)
Jessica: WHAT? I almost killed myself with a fake knife? And you want us to do it over again? What do you think I am? Stupid?
Megan: Don’t answer that…and I STILL haven’t gotten far with my lines! My daddy will hear this!
James: I’m bleeding...I think...
Sue: My back hurts, and I’m missing my program…
Max: I am really getting a headache and my date just text me saying she hates my guts and that its over...
Director: WHINE WHINE WHINE! Get over yourselves. This is about creating a masterpiece! I am the director and you will do what I say!
Megan: You are not my daddy and I don’t have to listen to you! I QUIT!
Director: Quit? You can’t quit! You signed a contract!
Megan: And ill have my daddy destroy. Good bye! (Megan Exits)
Director: FINE! I don’t need you! (Takes a breath) Ok! This time Jessica go mad and pull the knife on Sue...
Sue: NO! I don’t think so. I’m getting way to old for this and my program is almost over. If I leave now I can still see if Marry still loves Jack. Good day.
(Sue Exits)
Director: Fine! Your character’s not that important anyway! Jessica pull the knife on James to defend your only love max…
Jessica: No! My brain exploded and all you care about is protecting a guy I don’t even find attractive. No. I’m going home! Maybe I could like got o the doctors or something...
(Jessica Exits)
Director: Oh my gosh! I hate actors. James and Max fight over the knife but then in the moment you both realize that you both truly deeply love each and kiss to show affection toward each other…
Max and James: (Back away from each other glaring) HECK NO!!!!
(They exit opposite sides)
Director: Fine I don’t need any of ya. NONE OF YA!!!
(Producer enters)
Producer: Hello. I am here to view a drama scene from “Love or dieâ€. I am with ABC’s Soap Opera Incorporated and I don’t have all day so please proceed.
Director: (Clearly crazy) FINE!
(Director drops knife on her foot)
My foot! My foot! I think I’m bleeding! Someone get me a band aid!
Oh suck it up James. Be a man.
Listen you…
( gets up, blood dripping down her forehead)
Guys stop fighting.
Look who’s talking ketchup head. Tried to make the scene dramatic I see. What? (She runs to her purse and pulls out a compact mirror.)
OH MY GOD! I’m DYING!!!!!
Your not dying.
Yes I am. My brain must have exploded or something.
What brain? I didn’t know you had one.
Why you spoiled little brat. Who do you think you are to talk to me like I am the star of this program. With out ME we would have nothing,
Um we kind of already do have nothing…
Bring it!
Oh I am going to rip out your hair! (Jessica lunches to Megan)
Guys! Stop fighting!
Stay out of this granny. This is between Airhead and me!
Um who’s Airhead? Isn’t that candy?
(Producer gets up annoyed and mutters)
Producer: I hate a one man show…
(The scene still plays out and blackout)
END