Week 10: What’s a Good Scenario for a Ten Minute Play?

1. A 15-year-old boy, grounded for skipping class, goes out in the woods, with out his parents knowledge or permission, meets a someone or something…

2. A man, who works in the army, realizes the reason the cause that he is fighting for…

3. A child returns home from school, to find that no one is home….
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5. I chose the fisrt one and wrote the follow ing first page of a play:
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   Sunlight streams down though the canopy of over hanging trees. Birds are chirping and singing loudly. A fifteen-year-old boy, ERIK, walks through two bushes. He looks around at the forest, taking in the sights. He continues walking until he comes to a river. He bends down, to cool him self off with some water, when a loud CRACK is heard.
   
   
   ERICK
   (Looking around worried shouts)
   WHO’S THERE?
   
   
   All the birds stop singing, which means danger is near. He begins to panic, when he hears a voice reply,
   STRANGER
   (With a hint of urgency in his voice)
   No one you need to be afraid of…
   
   
   ERICK
   (Worried)
   Where are you?
   
   
   STRANGER
   (With slight fear in his voice)
   Behind the bushes
   
   
   ERICK
   (Scared)
   If I don’t need to fear you, then why are you hiding?
   
   
   STRANGER
   (Worried)
   If you saw me, you would be afraid.
   
   
   ERICK
   (Curious)
   What is your name?
   
   
   STRANGER
   (Slightly uneasy)
   I once was a man named Ike.
   
   
   ERICK
   (Curiosity building)
   Can you show yourself?
   
   
   IKE
   (Worried)
   I might scare you…
   
   
   Then IKE walks out of the bushes, and stands in the full sunlight. ERICK stares at him before saying,
   
   
   ERICK
   (Breathing heavily with fear)
   What are you?!?