TheatreandDramaFinalPerformance.docVIP

Theatre and Drama Final Performance This sequence has two acts and should take around ten minutes, depending on the pace of delivering the lines and the use of dramatic pauses. There are three parts: two female and one male. Jimmy: a photojournalist who has had to take several weeks off of traveling the world doing his job as a photographer because he has a broken leg. He has been limited to sitting in a wheelchair (you may use a regular chair). He is in both scenes. Ethel: a middle-aged nurse for an insurance company. She visits Jimmy once a day to check on his recovery. She has developed a friendly relationship with him over the past weeks. She appears in the first scene. Grace: Jimmy’s girlfriend. Grace is a glamorous and elegant New York City fashion boutique owner and editor of a fashion magazine. She appears in the second scene. Both scenes take place in Jimmy’s livingroom. Scene I Jimmy is in his living room, watching his neighbors from his windows. Enter Ethel. Ethel: New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. Jimmy: Oh, hello, sweetheart. Ethel: They got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you’re always watching worth a red-hot poker? Oh, dear. We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes, sir. How’s that for a bit of homespun philosophy? Jimmy: Reader’s Digest, April 1939. Ethel: Well, I only quote from the best. (gets ready to take Jimmy’s temperature) Jimmy: You don’t have to take my temperature this morning. Ethel: (sticks a thermometer into Jimmy’s mouth) Quiet. See if you can break 100. You know, I should have been a gypsy fortune-teller instead of an insurance company nurse. I got a nose for trouble. Can smell it ten miles away. You heard of that market crash in ’29? I predicted that