Lights go partially down - not all the way - on the BAR, come up on the mainstage, which is set with the KOPI coffeehouse. A Panera-esque lounge area is on stage center-left. Some tables and chairs are stage right. RILEY is pacing across the entire stage, while CASEY, DAKOTA, and CAMERON are all in the lounge area.
RILEY:
Anyone know where Charlie is? She’s already twenty minutes late.
CASEY:
I thin-
RILEY:
I'm sorry, Casey, I was asking the smart people.
DAKOTA:
She’ll be here. We’ve known Charlie for what, five years? She always comes through for us.
CASEY:
Yeah.
RILEY:
Well, she’s not here right now. We agreed to meet at four. We need to finish making this movie.
CAMERON:
I don’t think you’re allowed to say “finish”.
RILEY:
Alright, we need to start making this movie. Anyone have ideas for a story line?
CASEY:
We could -
RILEY:
Casey, please stop speaking. (Beat.) Thanks. (RILEY paces more intensely, muttering short phrases to themselves. DAKOTA fusses with his phone.)
CAMERON: (To DAKOTA.)
Who ya texting?
DAKOTA:
Someone.
CAMERON:
Who?
DAKOTA:
Someone.
CASEY:
Is it Jessie?
DAKOTA:
Ssh.
CAMERON:
Ooh, Dakota. Sneaking the girlfriend?
DAKOTA:
Jokingly.
Stop it.
CAMERON:
Mixing work and play, huh?
DAKOTA:
Come on, Cam.
CAMERON:
Or does she still count as work? Tell us, Dakota. She have you whipped?
DAKOTA:
Shut up.
CAMERON: (Motions as if he were cracking a whip.)
Wa-pow! (They snicker. Beat.)
CASEY: (Helpfully.) He's saying that you're whipped.
CAMERON:
Thanks, Casey.
DAKOTA:
Yeah, I got that.
CASEY:
Sorry.
DAKOTA:
So, explain again how we got stuck working with Riley?
CASEY:
Cameron, Charlie and I were planning on making the movie together, then Riley came up to us and kinda forced her way into the group.
CAMERON:
It’s just one project.
RILEY: (Turning back to the group.)
Come on guys, think! I want this movie to be perfect. Perfect!
CAMERON:
Perfect?
RILEY:
Perfect! Everything about our project and presentation needs to be perfect!
CAMERON: (Snickers.)
What are you going to do if the projector breaks while we’re presenting?
RILEY:
I might kill someone.
DAKOTA:
You and I have very different definitions of perfect.
RILEY:
Think.
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