Open Scenes Work

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 Genre 1: Tragedy

Setting: a hospital room, a man hooked up to machines in a coma breathing through a ventilator, not conscious. In a chair next to the bed sits a man resting his arms and head on the bed. 

Characters: The visitor (the man in the chair) and the patient (man in the bed). The man in the bed is unconscious, so this conversation is actually between the visitor and himself. The visitor is the unconscious man’s longtime friend who is visiting him after a serious accident before he is unplugged. The visitor speaks both parts as if he is having a conversation with his friend. Part A is the visitor's interpretation of his friends’ voice and part B is the visitor's own voice. 


A: Well 

B: How are you 

A: I’m not all that well really 

B: Why What’s the matter 

A: The usual things  (man chuckles a little and grimaces at this… his friend was always a joker) How are you  

B: I’m fine 

A: Mmm It’s been a long time 

B: Yes I thought of you the other day 

A: Why 

B: It’s nice sometimes to think back isn’t it 

A: Absolutely How’s everything 

B: Oh not bad Do you know how long it’s been since we met 

A: Uuh 

B: Two years 

A: Long time (at this point the man bows his head back onto the bed and starts to cry) 


Genre 2: Action (superhero esque) 


This is a fight scene that is a little bit comical because they are fighting, but they are having a somewhat friendly conversation with each other while they are trying to kill each other. This is a pirate sword fight. 


Setting: a ship deck 

Characters: two pirates fighting with swords, almost like fencing. They each pause when they are speaking to each other and smile and shrug, etc. 


A: Well 

B: How are you 

A: I’m not all that well really 

B: Why What’s the matter 

A: The usual things How are you 

B: I’m fine 

A: Mmm It’s been a long time

B: Yes I thought of you the other day 

A: Why 

B: It’s nice sometimes to think back isn’t it 

A: Absolutely How’s everything 

B: Oh not bad Do you know how long it’s been since we met 

A: Uuh 

B: Two years 

A: Long time (at this point pirate A is able to get pirate B to trip and fall over the edge of the deck and fall into the water)

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