I've Got It!

Scene: A man sitting at a desk in a small, dark room with a dim lamp on the desk

Narrator: Edward, an aspiring play writer has been sitting at his desk in his small apartment on Manhattan for years, writing plays and more plays, but some days, like today, he stares outside his window onto the crowded, bustling streets below stuck, with no idea what to write. Some people think he is insane for sticking to his dream to be a play writer when he has written hundreds of plays yet he has not been discovered.

Edward (starring at his window, talking to himself): WHY? Why am I a lone man sitting all alone at my old, desk with this dim lamp shining above? Why am I not one of those play writers who has had a dozen plays performed on Broadway. What is wrong with me? Why, why why? Sometimes, like today, I wish I had listened to my parents and gone to college, but other days, the days that the words of my plays just flow right onto the paper, I am happy being a play writer but, I wish MY plays were on Broadway. Some people are so lucky; their first play is chosen to be performed while my plays sit in this binder just waiting to be discovered, just waiting. (Edward Stands up and begins to pace around the room) You know, when I was a young boy I dreamed that I would be a superstar. Sometimes I dreamed of being on Broadway, sometimes I wanted to be in a move, but I always knew that I wanted to be in the theater business. When I was in fifth grade and I didn’t get a role in the school play, my dream of being on stage ended. I decided I just wasn’t good enough so I decided to go behind the scenes. I would be a writer, but today I feel like I shouldn’t be a writer. I’ve been sitting at my desk all day with the beginnings of plays. I write two or three lines of a play and I realize that it is going nowhere and I cannot continue. Sometimes I write the first act of a play and there is no second act. I can’t write a good play. I get so angry with myself that when I do finally write a good play I want to shout, I’VE GOT IT!!!!