March 15 Play: DON'T LOOK BACK

X: DON’T LOOK BACK - by Ed Valentine
© March 15, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: A FAMILY driving. Driving from the storm that’s chasing them, with all their belongings hastily strapped to the car.

MOM: It’s followed us. Do you hear me? It’s followed us.

1: From Maine to Mississippi.

2: From Florida to Georgia.

3: From California to Kentucky.

4: And back again. Isn’t that right, Daddy? I say, isn’t that right?

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DAD: Don’t look back, kids.
Don’t look back.
We gotta outrace it sometime, kids.
Don’t we?
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Don’t we.
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We just drive on.
That’s all we can do.
We just drive on.

(The storm draws nearer.)


LIGHTS FADE. END OF PLAY.