Thursday, February 24, 2011

Romance Through the Ages


This scene is in a sort of dual frame format. While one frame is taking place the players in the other stand perfectly still. The first frame consists of a man and a women dressed in some sort of primitive outfit with the man holding club (the idea is that they're cavemen, as long as this is portrayed clearly and the man is holding a club their outfit doesn't matter). The second frame consists of a man and a woman dressed in modern day clothing.

Frame 1

Man: [Jumping up and down excitedly and grunting, approaches the woman. Points to self] Grunk. Grunk. [Points to woman] Oooou?

Woman: [Digging around in the ground or doing some other sort of caveman action. Looks up at the man. Stares for a second. Then continues what she was doing.]

Frame 2

Man: [Approaches the woman, who is engaged texting on her phone] Hi! My name's William.

Woman: [Looks up from her phone. In a snotty, valley-girl voice] Okay. [Goes back to her phone]

Frame 1

Man: [Present the woman with a dead lizard while at the same time pointing to himself and motioning with his club.]

Woman: [Takes the lizard, sniff it extensively. Finally takes a bite out of it, chews slowly, then tosses it away]

Frame 2

Man: [takes out a hand-made lanyard] I made this for you the other day in art. Do you like it?

Woman: Not really.

Frame 1

Man: [Jumps around for a little while, banging his club on the ground and beating his chest with his fist.]

Woman: [Looks up for a second, then continues what she was doing]

Frame 2

Man: [While flexing] So after I was done in the weight-room yesterday, I went to the arcade to beat up nerds. God I hate nerds.

Woman: Huh? Did you say something?

Frame 1

Man: [Makes fart noises with his armpit and mouth while giving off grunting caveman laughter]

Woman: [Pushes the man out of the way to dig around in the dirt by his feet]

Frame 2

Man: Someone told me this really funny joke the other day. Wanna hear it?

Woman: No.

Frame 1

Man: [Stares at the woman for a second. He then hits the woman over the head with his club and proceeds to drag her off stage]

Frame 2

Man: I'm rich

Woman: [Finally puts her phone away and looks up at him excitedly] Wanna make-out?

End Scene

1 comment:

  1. Promising premise but a bit disappointing in the execution.

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