An Act of a Script Using Director's Instructions and Dialogue

An Act of a Script Using Director's Instructions and Dialogue

Character list

Angela

Mother

Girl 1

Girl 2

Boy 1

Boy 2

Boy 3

Note that none of the characters except Angela are named so the

audience do not connect with the characters and they instead focus on

the isolation Angela is feeling.

Act one

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Scene 1

Curtains open to a sitting room in a house. The room is full of

cabinets, bookshelves, sofas and a television. A 9-year-old child we

know to be Angela sits on the sofa staring gloomily at her feet, while

her mother sits in the chair opposite her.

MOTHER: Is this about your dad?

ANGELA: (Stiffly). I don't even remember my dad.

MOTHER: Angela…. why do you never talk to me about it?

ANGELA: Because I know all about it, you hate him and he hates you so

you are not living together anymore.

MOTHER: (Sighing). We do not hate each other we….

ANGELA: (Shouting). Then why are you not together? You hate dad, dad

hates you and I hate you too.

MOTHER: (Fighting back tears) Is that why you keep playing with the

matches? Is it because you hate me?

ANGELA: No…

MOTHER: Why then Angela? Why go to all the trouble of climbing up on

chairs to reach them? (No reply) Why do you keep disobeying my rules?

I have them for a purpose…so you do not get hurt!

ANGELA: No you do not; you have rules so you can make sure I have no

fun!

MOTHER: That is not true at all, what would have happened if you had

burned yourself, then dropped that match and set fire to the house.

Who could have saved you if I was upstairs, and you were nowhere near

an exit? (No ...

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... attention goes to

Angela.

ANGELA: (Banging her fists against the door) Let me out! Let me out!

Help I am stuck! Help!

She continues to bang her fists against the door for a few more

seconds, then backs away from the door and falls into a wall of mops

and buckets, she falls backwards and lands with a thump on the ground,

buckets etc falling down from the shelves. Angela brings her knees up

to an embryonic position; she then begins to cry, rocking herself

backwards and forwards slowly. The light dims a little bit more and

Angela's cries become louder, her rocking becoming stiffer until she

is almost completely rigid; her back continuously thudding against the

back wall of the cupboard. Lights fade to blackout, but the thudding

and Angela's cries continue for a few more seconds. Curtains fall. End

of Act One.