Cal's+One-Act

Cal    2-19-09 P.1   media type="custom" key="3270336" Love Conundrum This conflict takes place in a park in San Francisco along the bay. It is autumn, and the trees are starting to shed its leaves. The Golden Gate Bridge is far away in the background, and there is autumn trees lined along a walkway. The front of the stage is lined with fresh cut grass, and there are some trees scattered on stage left and right that are half covered with autumn leaves. There is a wooden bench at stage right. It’s midday, and the wind is blowing gently. Yellow, orange, and red lights are shining brightly while brown lights are shining dimly to bring out the autumn look. (The wind is blowing gently; bike riders ring their bells. A light song is heard in the background. Beth comes in at stage right, Chester stage left) __ Chester __ : (surprised) Oh! Hi Beth! I didn’t know you’d be here on such a nice day like this! __ Beth __ : (fake smiling) Me too, he… he… __ Chester __ : (saying to himself) //I thought I’d never say this, but here goes nothing.// (Romantically) You are the light in my soul! __ Beth __ : Shut up. I bet a frog would cower when it saw your face. __ Chester ____ : __ Say what, honey? (Making a rolling sound with tongue) Besides, you’re so hot; you’ll probably burn my clothes when we come in contact! __ Beth: __ (like you’ve been offended) Ah?! Oh no you di’int! (Slapping Chester on the face) __ Chester ____ : __ Excuse me, but I think you have something in your eye. Nope, it’s just a sparkle. __ Beth: __ (gives Chester the cold shoulder. Then looks towards stage left) Oh look! Here comes my boyfriend, Jacob. (Jacob strolls in from stage left, Chester moves to the side, sitting down on a wooden bench at stage right, watching Beth’s every move towards Jacob) __ Beth: __ Hi boyfri- I mean Jacob! __ Jacob: __ (cautiously) Hi, __ Beth: __ so I heard there is this county fair going on down the street, you wanna join me? __ Jacob: __ No! No! Never with you! You look like a toad in those clothes. I shouldn’t even say clothes; they should be called rags. Anyway, I can’t be seen with a toad at my side while going to the fair. Even if you had the most fancy __clothes__, I still wouldn’t go with you. I’d rather go with the nerds than you. (Disgusted) __ Beth: __ Ok… (Now crying) it’s all right. (Mood changes to happy) But, you’ll always be in my heart when you choose to come back to me. __ Jacob: __ Whatever. (Giving her the right hand) Look who’s coming! My __true__ love! (Beth slowly sits on the bench trying to sit as far away as possible from Chester ) __ Sally: __ (in a girly voice) why is everyone here? __ Jacob: __ (romantically) because they all wanted to come to our wedding reception. __ Sally: __ (girly voice) In your dreams fatty. Who would want to get married to someone that’s obese, and his stomach bulges out like a full-grown elephant is inside that stomach (Jacob looks and touches his flab on his stomach kind of disgusted) __ Jacob: __ Where you in Boy Scouts? Because you sure have tied my heart up in a knot. __ Sally: __ I love Chester more than you. __ Chester ____ : __ (rockets up from the bench) you’re nothing compared to lovely Beth! __ Sally: __ you make my heart light up as if I was in heaven. __ Chester ____ : __ the only thing that takes my heart to heaven is Beth. (sighing, looking at Beth) __ Beth: __ (rockets up higher than Chester ) Jacob’s on fiya! (As the sun begins to set) __ Jacob: __ Well, I got to go, my mom might kill me of I don’t come home by six so I can do my homework. But, I can stretch that, and stay with you babe. __ Sally: __ See? That’s another reason why I don’t like you. You have curfews to do your homework. I bet you have curfews at eight to go to sleep (cracking up). __ Jacob: __ Do you know karate? ‘Cause your body is really kickin’! __ Sally: __ Chester is so funny. I think I’ll stay with him. __ Chester ____ : __ Humph (giving the cold shoulder. Then talking to Beth) if beauty were time, you’d be an eternity. __ Beth: __ (yelling) nobody likes you Chester __ Zobian: __ (mysteriously comes on stage) Sup guys and gals… (the four teenagers walk disgustedly away from the nerd. Sally and Jacob walk away stage left, Chester and Beth walk away stage right) THE END