11 Nov. 2024 - The Process of Making a Zero Act Play
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MICRO PLAYS (My new favorite thing again...):
"Chocolate Bar" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
.......Scene: Curtains open. Late at night, or in a world with no natural light. A skinny, frightened, possibly male figure sits on a park bench beneath a lighted LAMP POST. From stage left, a brawny but feminine figure walks onto stage and sits by the male figure.
KATKAT (the feminine figure): You are experiencing distress. What is the cause?
LAZLO (the possibly male figure): I have only one remaining chocolate bar.
.......Previously unseen lights on the park bench begin to glow and strobe.
KATKAT: My goodness. The Apocalypse is upon us, most likely because of your chocolate deficiencies. I hope you lived a good life.
LAZLO: I did not.
.......The lights on the bench go out (but the LAMP POST remains lit.) Both figures stand in unison, clap three times, and explode into a cloud of glitter.
VOICE (from off stage): We ask that you, in the audience, hold what you have seen here in the deepest of secret recesses. If you do not, we will hunt you down and force you to take your admission money back.
.......The lights on the bench go berzerk again. The LAMP POST may walk off stage at this point if the actor playing this character has another gig to get to.
