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[leia131]

Characters:
Ruby, a Yankee’s fan
Molly, a Red Sox fan
Heidi, a friend of Molly

Setting:
A high school hallway.



Scene 1

Molly and Ruby enter, walking down the hall and talking. They are in the middle of a conversation. Ruby is wearing a Yankees jersey. Molly is wearing a light jacket that completely covers her shirt.

Molly: I can’t go to the game with you Ruby, I just… can’t.

Ruby: (thrusting tickets at Molly) Molly, do you know what these are?

Molly: You know I don’t. I don’t follow baseball.

Ruby: These are Yankees/Red Sox tickets! It’s virtually impossible to get these! You HAVE to come with me! Even if you don’t understand baseball, this is a once in a lifetime thing! You’ll never get this chance again!

Molly: I can’t Ruby, I have to go to… um…my… cousin’s wedding that day…

Ruby: Come on, explain to your parents, they’ll let you miss one wedding. I bet you have lots of other cousins.

Molly: I’ll try... But I don’t think they’ll go for it. You’d be better off looking for someone else to go with you.

Ruby: Molly, you're my girlfriend. I don’t want to go with anyone else! It’s you or no one.

Molly: You can’t do that. You’ll never get this chance again either. You have to go, even if it is without me.

Ruby: (warningly) Molly...

Molly: There’s the bell. We’d better get to class. We can talk about this later.

Both exit





Scene 2

Later the same day. Molly and Heidi enter, walking down the hall.

Heidi: So what’s up? You’ve been weird all afternoon.

Molly: Ruby invited me to go somewhere with her, but I can’t go.

Heidi: Well that sucks, but I don’t think you should be this upset about it. Unless it was somewhere really good… Where did she want to take you?

Molly: To a Red Sox/Yankees game.

Heidi:Ooo, that is good. So why can’t you go? (Molly gives her a look) What? Oh. OH! Ooooohhhh. Cause she doesn’t know, right?

Molly: (overly dramatic) No, and I can’t tell her either! She’ll break up with me, never speak to me again, hate me forever, my life will be over and-

Heidi: Calm down! If she really likes you, she’ll understand. I mean, you know about her and you’re still dating her right?

Molly: Well, yeah, but she didn’t lie about it either. And besides, I still couldn’t go to the game. So it’d be just as bad, and she’d still be mad at me because I lied and because-

Heidi: (over the end of Molly’s line) It’s not the end of the world that

Both: I/you like the Red Sox!



Scene 3

After school, the same day. Molly sees Ruby at her locker, and seems to make up her mind. She takes a deep breath, and walks determinedly over to Ruby.

Molly: Ruby, I have something to tell you. Now it won’t be easy to hear, but…

Ruby: Did you cheat on me?

Molly: No! No. No, it’s not that.

Ruby: You’re straight?

Molly: No! Will you just listen? (Ruby nods) I don’t have a wedding to go to. I don’t even have any cousins that are old enough to get married. I can’t go to the game with you because (Molly goes center, throws her bag down melodramatically, and rips off her jacket to reveal a Red Sox jersey. She throws her head back and strikes a dramatic pose) I AM A RED SOX FAN! (Molly collapses in a heap.)

Ruby: (slowly) Molly? Molly? (Ruby walks to her) Molly, are you ok?

Molly: (heavily) Yeah. So? (she motions at her jersey) Do you hate me? Are you going to dump me? I promise I’ll understand if you never want to speak to me again.

Ruby: Do you really think baseball matters that much to me? More than you? I mean, I know the Yankees are important to life, but I’m not going to break up with you over a difference in baseball teams.

Molly: You’re not?

Ruby: No.

Molly: But I lied to you too. I said I wasn’t into baseball…

Ruby: Well, I think I can forgive that. I can see where you were coming from. You were completely wrong of course, but still.

Molly: It’s really not that big of a deal to you? You were so excited about those tickets… And what about the rivalry and all?

Ruby: (sighing) You know Jeff?

Molly: Your best friend Jeff?

Ruby: Yeah. He’s a Red Sox fan. Always has been. And I still like him.

Molly: Oh. So we’re ok then?

Ruby: (Helping her up) Yes dear.

Molly: But what will people think? A Yankee’s fan and a Red Sox fan, dating? Won’t people talk? Call us names?

Ruby: Probably. But you see, none of that matters. All that matters is that we’re happy. That it’s ok with us what we do. And it’s none of their business what teams we root for behind closed doors. We’re ok with who we are and what we’re doing, and everybody else can either accept our relationship as fans of rival teams, or they can just shut up. Ok?

Molly: Ok. You didn’t find anyone else to go to the game, did you?

Ruby: Nope. I told you, it’s either you or no one.

Molly: Can I go then? And sit next to you? And root for the Sox?

Ruby: Of course. Just let me tell my mom about you ok? She’s sort of old fashioned about things like baseball teams.

Molly: Got it. (suggestively) You still coming over to do our ‘Bio homework’?

Ruby: Absolutely. (Exit, holding hands)






The markup for that was a nightmare, by the way.



Comment, critique, compliment, tell me: did the point come through clearly? I'll probably have handed it in by the time I get any comments, but I'll appreciate it just the same.

Comments

[spazenport.livejournal.com]

That was awesomely hilarious.


That is all...


Awesomely Hilarious...

Good job...

--Matt

[basslyoon.livejournal.com]

It's awesome babe. Very reminiscent of the play that we did at some festival (wow, vague) about the right handed/left handed thing.

I like it much, love. Just make sure the audience knows they're dating right off. Like when they go to class have them kiss goodbye or something, you know what I mean. MUAH! LOVENS!

[nessquick67.livejournal.com]

hahah i love the line..."Ruby: Of course. Just let me tell my mom about you ok? She’s sort of old fashioned about things like baseball teams."

very nice megan
brownie points for you<3:.ness

[btwnluvnhate.livejournal.com]

is there anyway u can't split it up into scenes

it just felt kind of choppy, like have ruby leave stage but molly stay, and then heidi come on

i think u should make it longer, because i was like oh wow its over, i wanted more

its an interesting subject and whats the word metaphor or something parrallels maybe...

i liked it

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good point. I think I figured it would just be communicated by their body language... Also, I think when I wrote it intially I wanted the relationship to come out gradually... But thanks for bringing that to my attention.

*muah*

[leia131.livejournal.com]

That's my second favorite line in the play...

Thanks!

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Well, see, it was written for my Intro to Lit class, and so it's not supposed to be very long... I had to write this whole long analysis to go with it so it couldn't be a whole play, it was just supposed to be a few scenes.

And I meant for Molly to exit and then come back on... I guess I should specify that huh?

Thank you for reading!

[whatsername99.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA OH MY GOD.

1. From a Yankee fan: that was amazing. Simply amazing.
2. From someone who will always be stuck finding a guy who is a Red Sox fan, that is amazing.
3. It parallels things like homosexuality and biracial relationships without being corny, and stays ABSOLUTELY HILLARIOUS.
4. I can just see the girl coming to center stage and being like: "I'm a.... RED SOX FAN!!!"
5. Apparently my neice is a Red Sox fan (gag me) but it's probably just to rebel against her Yankee blood. She asked for an authentic jersey for her birthday and my stepmom said it was the hardest money she ever spent.
6. You are amazing.

She’s sort of old fashioned about things like baseball teams
That's how I'm going to have to tell EACH MEMBER OF MY FAMILY if I ever bring home a Red Sox fan. Hahahahahahahahaha... ESPECIALLY my mother.

Nineteen thumbs up. Because I am Chuck Norris have 8.5 dead bodies sitting in my trunk.

>4 Much Freakin Rival Team Love >4

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Even though there were no vampires?

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Also, I named Removing the Glove (that was the left-handed play) as my major inspiration for this one in the analysis I had to write for class... So you picked up on that too! Yays!

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It didn't even occur to me to screen this through Yankee fans... But it proves that we can all be friends!

*hugs*

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Yet another comment for Janeea: I added a line in Scene 1 saying "Molly you're my girlfriend..." and it works and I like it that way and thank you for showing me that you are awesome!

[whatsername99.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

*molests Yoda's lightsaber your icon*

>4 Much heheheh love>4

[spazenport.livejournal.com]

I am still disappointed that you didn't use Buffy and Blade-ette, but it works. I'm sure that if you really wanted to you could turn heidi into the sexy vampiress.