March 20 Play: Not Much of a Play

X: Not Much of a Play - by Ed Valentine
© March 20, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: A stage with a red curtain.

1: Play?

2: Play.

The curtain opens. An elaborate set. Actors perform an opera of madness. People clap. Curtain closes.

1: That wasn’t much of a play.

2: Not my taste.

1: I want my money back.

2: They’re a fraud, I tell you, a fraud!

(Curtain opens. Set is gone. Empty stage. Ghost light.)

1: Gone?

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2: We ain’t getting our dough back, Sal. Ain’t getting it back now for sure.

They sit.
Lights fade.

END OF PLAY.