February 9, 2007

A Play A Day #302

Dart


Cast:
Teek
Wog

Setting: Wog's apartment


(Lights up, Wog sits in a chair, Teek enters, looking filthy, flushed and exhausted)

Teek: Ahhhh!

Wog: (jumping up) What the... Teek! What's... Teek, man, you look like shit! What the hell's going on... Teek? (shaking him) Teek!

Teek: (continuing weird sounds of fear, fatigue) By... the... uhhhhh... chasing... gun...

Wog: Teek?! C'mon man, what's wrong? Sit down, sit down.

Teek: (Wog guides Teek to chair, sits him down) Afraid and... the light... at the end...

Wog: End of the tunnel? What're you saying?

Teek: Flash... light... a flash...

Wog: Yeah?

Teek: Hiding... they chased me... shot...

Wog: You've been shot?!

Teek: Dart... dart... dart... here (touches shoulder)... Tore it...

Wog: Someone shot you with a dart?

Teek: Three men... chased... the dart...

Wog: Someone shot you and then chased you? Teek, we have to get you to a hospital!

Teek: Ahhhh!!! No! No! White... masks white masks... three men...

Wog: Breathe, breathe... just breathe.

(pause for some deep breaths)

Wog: Okay? Okay? Deep breaths are what you need.

(pause for more breaths)

Wog: Okay? Now. Three men, Teek?

Teek: Chased... I tore the dart out...

Wog: You ran? Three men chased you? Men with white masks?

Teek: Yes... masks...

Wog: Like doctor masks, surgical masks?

Teek: Surgery.

Wog: Okay... three men in surgical masks, shot you with a dart and chased you?

Teek: Raining... I ran...

Wog: Wait... it hasn't rained for... uhh... three days.

Teek: I ran... feet fell asleep...

Wog: While you were running?

Teek: Falling... in rain...

Wog: Where? Where did you fall?

Teek: Trees... swamp...

Wog: You were in the nature preserve?

Teek: Crunching... steps... men talking... couldn't move...

Wog: There was a tranquilizer in that dart, Teek... they drugged you...

Teek: Alligator... crawled over me... don't remember...

Wog: Wait!? An alligator came to you?

Teek: On top... I fell asleep.

Wog: The gator crawled on top of you!?

Teek: I fell asleep.

Wog: My God! Then... you woke up? Three days, you were out for three days.

Teek: Stumbled... here... car is gone.

Wog: I don't think you should be driving in your condition.

Teek: Melissa.

Wog: What about Melissa?

Teek: She... her plan.

Wog: Melissa did this to you?! Come on, it was a bad break up, but not this!

Teek: Her dad...

Wog: Yeah?

Teek: Green Beret.

Wog: Shit!? You think... he wouldn't...

Teek: Phoned... said... "don't fuck with me"...

Wog: Holy shit... holy fucking shit...

Teek: Alive...

Wog: Yeah... we've got to get you to a hospital... I'll make sure the docs don't wear the masks.

Teek: Yeah...

Wog: Sounds like that gator saved your life.

Teek: Yeah...

Wog: Amazing... absolutely amazing.

(helping Teek up, supporting him as they move toward offstage)

Teek: Amazing.

Wog: I'll tell the police... they can start going after Melissa and her asshole Dad.

Teek: No. You can't do that.

(they stop)

Wog: Man, I have to... they can't get away with this!

Teek: They didn't.

Wog: What?

Teek: Three men... surgical masks...

Wog: Shot you with a dart, yeah, I know that.

Teek: I needed an alibi.

Wog: You... what?

Teek: No darts... for Melissa... or her dad.

Wog: Wait...

Teek: Three men... surgical masks.

(lights out)

(end)

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