March 22 Play: ISLAND PLAY

X: ISLAND PLAY - by Ed Valentine
© March 22, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: An island. A palm. 4 Castaways. 4 of them.

1: Who ate the last fish?

2: You did.

1: I didn’t. It was YOU.

3: Me? Not me.

1: Someone did.

(They all turn very slowly to 4. 4 makes desperate sounds. He is mute.)

1: That might as well be a confession.

2: That clinches it.

3: Well then.

(He – 3 – begins to tie a noose in some rope. 1 and 2 hold 4 down.)

3: That’s what comes of cheats and liars.

(3 and 2 put the noose around 4’s neck and take him to the tree. When no one else is looking, 1 discards the white bones of a fish.)

Lights fade.

END OF PLAY.