Conversation of two people with distinct lack of names
(excerpt from a larger play)
ACT I - SCENE IV:
This scene is set in a barely decorated room with run down walls and no windows
The scene starts with person B sleeping in their bed as person A approaches
A:
(Worried) Hey, Hey! Heey! Heeeeyyyy!!
B:
(Barely reacting. Trying to not be awakened) Ugh… What's up?
A:
Wake up! (Increases their voice) Wake up!
B:
(Without even opening his eyes) What is it you need so much as to interrupt my sleep?
A:
(Increasingly worried) The bird is not chirping.
B:
(Opens his eyes and turns toward A) It’s too early, it’ll be back once the sun comes out.
A:
But the sun is out!
B:
(Snarky) And how would you know that? We got no windows down here.
A:
The clock says so. It’s 10 in the morning.
B:
Well… (defeated tone) the clock has been showing that for what feels like a year.
A:
(hopeful) It has, but it’s never been wrong before.
B:
(Gets up to sit on a bed) You’re right. It’ll surely tick over soon enough.
A:
We should wait. (Sits beside B)
B:
We should have a window.
A:
(Confused) What for? We’re in a cellar.
B:
It could of been on the roof. (Pauses) I miss the sky.
A:
You never looked up to the sky when we were outside!
B:
(Sad tone) There was always something more interesting back then. The trees, the water, the birds, th-
A:
(Interrupts B) Well the bird’s not chirping!
(Pause, Uncomfortable silence)
B:
I wonder why…
A:
Maybe it moved.
B:
Maybe it died.
A:
(Sad defeated tone) Would be a great shame. I liked hearing it.
B:
(Surprised) Really? I hated it so much. It kept waking me up day by day. Always too early.
A:
(Stands up and faces B, filled with anger) If you did anything to it!.. If you… I swear I’ll make you regret it!
B:
(Stands up to match As height as he defends himself) And how would I do that! We are stuck here until god knows when!
A:
Hopefully it’ll all end soon. We just need the clock to tick over a few more times..
B:
To be honest, (Pause) I am getting doubtful. Time feels so slow lately.
A:
It wasn’t like that until recently.
B:
Well... (Pause) We were still sane back then.
A:
(Curious) Are you not anymore?
B:
(Defeated) Nobody is.
A:
(Defensive) I am!
B:
(Surprised by A’s comment) You?
A:
Yes! Me!
B:
(B looks at A with a smirk on their face)
A:
(Offended) Why are you looking at me like that?
B:
Oooh no reason, really.
A:
No, no, no, no. You think I’m insane!
B:
(Defensive tone) I never said that!
A:
(Rise in voice) You insinuated it!
B:
I didn’t insinuate anything! I never insinuate anything ever since I got detention for it.
A:
Oh? You got detention for it?
B:
Yes. I got detention for it.
A:
I’m not surprised honestly.
B:
(Hint of offense) What’s that suppo–
A:
(Excitedly gestures at the wall while interrupting B) Can you hear that?
B:
What!?
A:
(Excited) The bird is chirping!
B:
(Sarcastic tone) Oh rejoice, the bird is chirping…
A:
(Frolicking around the room) Oh the bird is chirping once again!
B:
(As A is frolicking, B turns toward the audience and steps away from the scene) And this, ladies and gentleman, is how he kept on acting, for what felt like another 3 hours.