Play Scripts – Building a City of Literature

Caroline

(At the start we are introduced to Caroline a 34 year old woman who lives at home with her husband and 2 children) Caroline-(introducing the play) Hello men and women, boys and girls. I’m about let you in on the most horrific thing that happened to me! It all started when I was 13, would you like me to change the words to more modern words so you understand it better? Audience: (all together) YEAH (more…)...

Doris’ Story

(We are introduced to an old lady who goes by the name Doris sat on an old looking sofa in an isolated room) #charliisthebest Doris – well hello my lovely’s, I guess you’re here to see how a sweet old lady like myself ended up being put into a mad house Well let me take you all back to when my husband Barry was alive and was living in Nottingham (scene changes – the room has opened into a dark living room with only a lamp on, Doris is still sat on the sofa but picks up a cross word puzzle book and is sat in front of a tv that is currently not on) Doris (calling out into the distance) – Barry love? Barry (replying from a distance) – yes dear Doris – where is the most common place for a sheep to live? Barry (walking into the room with 2 cups of tea) – well that is wales of course dear Doris – oh yeah it...

Hair Dryer

ACT ONE EXT. FRONT GARDEN – MORNING A woman, CLAIRE GAINES, is seen sitting in her garden, pointing a hairdryer at the traffic passing by her house. Furniture is seen strewn all across the garden, and the house doesn’t look much better from the outside. CLAIRE (muttering to herself): Damn speeders. Man enters. MAN: Hi, I saw your TV interviews, and wanted to come and meet you. CLAIRE: Aw, thank you. What’s your name? MAN: Alexander. CLAIRE: Cool name… ALEXANDER: …thanks… So… do you wanna get a coffee? Claire looks at house and back at Alex. CLAIRE: Sure, sounds good! ALEXANDER: Cool, I just passed a nice looking café a minute ago. That sound alright? CLAIRE: Yeah, sure. INT. CAFÉ – MORNING The pair are sat beside the window, in a small, French style café. They are chatting over black coffee and scones. The café is almost completely dead, the only others there are a father and daughter, whose conversation is barely audible in between the gaps in conversation. ALEXANDER: …so, that’s why I’m here. CLAIRE: So,...

Drugs Over Dinner

The cafe that you mention was known as the 'square cafe’, that would be around 64-65.It was dingy and smoky, but served a good working man’s dinner, and it had a sliding door into another room, that had the juke-box Never recall it being open in the evenings. Drugs Over Dinner Act 1 Scene 1 In a small living room with a sagging settee, Cee, Ryan, Harriet and Jake are sat researching their school history project. Cee: So I was looking up some facts about our area, and apparently we have one of the biggest drug trade communities in Britain! Ryan: Not surprising with all the druggies around here. And that dodgy corner. Harriet: (reading) Yeah, but get this. Apparently there’s this little café, you know, that dingy one on 5th? Well according to this research forum, it’s a front. Jake: That’s mental. My sister’s boyfriend’s stepbrother works there, and he’s not a drug lord. Cee: Well bus boys aren’t necessarily involved in the drugs, are they. Maybe not telling...

Claire and Alexander

Scene 1 Front garden, morning. A woman, Claire Gaines, is seen sitting in her garden, pointing a hairdryer at the traffic passing by her house. Furniture is seen strewn all across the garden, and the house doesn’t look much better from the outside. Claire: (muttering to herself) Damn speeders. Man enters. (more…)...

In Jail

School SIMON: Hi my name’s Simon there’s a reason for everything I know it! I know it! Know it! There has to be a reason for my appearance and for my best friend’s disappearance. I’m so worried about him so worried. Police station POLICEMAN: Tell me your full name ANDY: Andy Kimmy Mackenzie POLICEMAN: And your age? ANDY: smirks POLICEMAN: bangs on table AND YOUR AGE!!!!!!!!! ANDY: 14 POLICEMAN: Why did you commit this crime? ANDY: shrugs POLICEMAN: Why?! ANDY: angry BECAUSE I DID! School SIMON: WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY WAS HE ARRESTED?? IT WASN’T HIM I KNOW IT! MISS SMITH: It Might be that SIMON: It is I know MISS SMITH: Ok if you say so. Walks away Police station SIMON: Can I have a look at the evidence to say that Andy Mackenzie has committed this crime POLICEMAN: GETS OUT EVIDENCE SIMON: Looks at evidence thank you to audience I didn’t think I would ever doubt him but especially his innocence. I didn’t think he’d commit a crime. I trusted him and he made me doubt that trust we had. Court...

Fairytail

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful queen called Roseabell and she lived in a castle. Across the Mirror Realm there are the St Ann’s Allotments. Roseabelle enters a competition to grow the biggest vegetable in the garden and sees the wicked witch Maleficent giving an evil look. Some zombies come out of nowhere and capture Roseabell. She was frightened. She called someone to rescue her in her mind, and they came in a flash. Roseabelle was safe, but the evil queen got away so Roseabell and her friends ran after her. They caught up with her. Maleficent pointed her wand and cast a spell on Roseabelle’s friends and turned them all into evil slug zombies. Luckily they were very small and couldn’t hurt anyone. Maleficent created a wonderland and put challenges there for Roseabell to finish. It took Roseabell found herself in the middle of nowhere, until she found a ladder and she climbed up it and saw the...

Dende

Narrator: Dende’s home planet was destroyed in the ferocious battle between Tobeto and Icor. Only a few people escaped the mighty explosion of the planet. Dende was sent to planet Earth and this is where his story begins… Dende wakes up in his pod which is in a hole. Dende: W-where am I? What is this place? And why is there only dirt and rocks here? I guess it’s called Earth for a reason... Dende thinks he might be underground, so he digs around his pod and into the tunnel that his pod dug out. (more…)...

When Doris Moved In

Scene 1 At Jenny’s apartment. Doris is moving in. Jenny is obsessed with painting/promotion. Doris is obsessed with car washing; especially washing behind the wheels. (more…)...

TREASON

ACT 1 SCENE 1: The Bloodstain Inn, Night Blackout. Red spotlights sweep the stage and a siren blares in the background. We hear a voice over the sirens. (more…)...