A Play A Day #304

Long Run


Cast:
Bitty
Tuck

Setting: In a forest clearing, sunny day, one enormous tree stump.


(Lights up bright, Bitty and Tuck lay on the tree stump, it's a truly enormous tree stump, each is dressed in classic Americana style, chewing on a stalk of wheat)

Bitty: Well.

(long pause)

Tuck: Yep.

(long pause)

Bitty: No point in rushing.

(long pause)

Tuck: Who has the time to rush?

(long pause)

Bitty: Not me.

(long pause)

Tuck: Same here.

(long pause)

Bitty: Even so.

(long pause)

Tuck: Yeh?

(long pause)

Bitty: Wish we had brought along the axe.

(long pause)

Tuck: Woulda helped.

(long pause)

Bitty: A cross-cut saw.

(long pause)

Tuck: That too.

(long pause)

Bitty: Good thing you found that grapefruit spoon.

(long pause)

Tuck: Coulda been here for years.

(long pause)

Bitty: Steada just a year.

(long pause)

Tuck: Should we get it home now?

(long pause)

Bitty: First, we gotta make the wagon.

(long pause)

Tuck: Yep. True.

(long pause)

Bitty: Then wait for a team of horses to come by.

(long pause)

Tuck: That could take a while.

(long pause)

Bitty: Maybe.

(long pause)

Tuck: Anything on that side yet?

(long pause)

Bitty: Well, thought I heard a neigh, but... no.

(long pause)

Tuck: Field mouse?

(long pause)

Bitty: Tricky little guys.

(long pause)

Tuck: I always thought so.

(lights start fading incredibly slowly, long pause)

Bitty: It's long, hard work, ain't it, Tuck?

(long pause)

Tuck: Better that way.

(long pause)

Bitty: It's more honest.

(long pause)

Tuck: Can't trust progress.

(long pause)

Bitty: If you can't see it.

(long pause)

Tuck: Think it's getting darker.

(long pause)

Bitty: Yes. Yes, it is.

(long pause)

Tuck: Ready for the sunset?

(long pause)

Bitty: Just about.

(long pause, until lights are nearly down)

Tuck: Oops, there it goes.

(long pause)

Bitty: Sun's getting too hasty, I think.

(long pause)

Tuck: Needs to learn to take it slow.

(lights out, long pause)

Bitty: Be better off in the long run.

(end)