Note for reader: Along with the many scraps of details, horror prose and poetry left behind in my mother's box, there are a few plays. As long as I knew her, she never expressed any sort of intense love of theatre so I don't understand why she would create these. Then again, I never knew anything about the 'Beatrice Record' (and still am no closer to understanding why it's called that). Here is one such play. It has the title "Probably for the Best" Viewer discretion: there's a lot of swears30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡce86ITODuc
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4 (Eve), 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uRUYP4y3D
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Many years into the future. A shelter or room deep underground. Dimly-lit enclosed space. All characters sit on floor despite two benches upstage center. Light from phone screens must be able to illuminate faces. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDXvla2TBf
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Dim fluorescent lights illuminate a shelter. There are two dirty benches upstage center, which remain empty, but for an old rotary telephone – between 1b and 1a. Also, a window with only darkness outside it. Four people sit huddled around on the floor. From left to right, there is 3.5, 4, 1b and 1a. The numbers correspond to the person’s rank, but also their title. All are dressed in combat boots and dark, stained overalls. Messy hair, especially 1a and 1b, whose mannerisms and actions are like young children. All are engrossed in their phone screen, except 4, who stares straight out. 3.5 also sometimes breaks their gaze away from the screen to stare at 4. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknfpHlqzXU
For a moment all simply sit in this space, before 4 starts to speak. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn27HbT41c1
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4 Listen to the ghosts. Listen for the Word. Listen. No. Don’t stop speaking yet. You think you’re high and mighty now that you’re above them, pissfuck? Excuse me.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKfhq9ETrG
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3.5 I’m right here if you want to fight me, you pathetic fuckcupboard-head. Say it to my face. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NLI6hC2d5
4 I can’t look at you. I won’t think about the violent acts I want to enlist on you. Excuse me. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMrUlpUUBP
3.5 Through all of these endless tribulations, I’m glad it’s ending. There! I said it. I said it because it’s true. You’d say the same if you had balls! Fuck-cunt! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qFR1W3WS8
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3.5 What are we waiting for? Let’s end it now! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvbgLEaOx8
1b We’re waiting for the Word! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4MJm3INlV
1a Woohoo! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1758WT7Fgd
Pause. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpBoQUtDAR
4 Oh, someone fill the fucking silence! Excuse me. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkR63ijiLYH
1a Excuse me? 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCIkJeFeKg
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4 Our time is precious. So, fill-fucking-fill it! Excuse me. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOY88H0ndBW
1a (as if they’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to speak) Well, I would like to take this moment to say that I have enjoyed every moment of our time here, and through and through, all of the days and years and how long, the black days, the fighting nights, all of the on-and-ons – all of it. So, yeah. / Thanks guys. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBN8MUQbicc
4 (to 3.5) I’ve been thinking it over in my head. Excuse me. Thinking over each and every way I could break your neck and get away with it unseen, so to speak, excuse me! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjgmrd7M0i
3.5 I’m right here, whorehouse. I wish you’d done it before you went and betrayed me. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IO9r0MXi8
4 I never / betrayed you. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNZjUoWUny
1b And so, we wait. Not a word, nor the Word. From outside. I miss the sun. It’s been some time now since it was visible. I miss the rain. Even the burning one. I miss it all. Now just a memory, and even that ... I think I can hear a ghost ... 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoCp4pYbV0
Pause. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAAtIFUPOW
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3.5 You betrayed me. You betrayed me. / And now you blame me? 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsi7RFhUtm
4 Fucker, I never betrayed you (excuse me), I ‘teached’ to you, and you listened, gaping and glistening for all of the wisdom in the world. Let us pray! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJ5FWbPhYr
1a (innocently) Who will we pray to today?30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDNRePtW1o
1b I thought that I saw an illusion in the blackness. I think it was my dashing husband. Can we pray to that?30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRVKiFZoBf
1a Can we pray to that?
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3.5 Pray to his- / sorry, her illusion? 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKEAthBMyM
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4 You ridiculous fucking children! Excuse me. No, you cannot pray to that, you won’t have arses when I’m done lashing you. Now. Pray! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaJHodf2Um
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Mumbling prayers. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzjGO33au7
Not quite. Fill the space! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnU8JSY6BW
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1a I heard a ghost! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmsZoqdhkQ
4 (frightened) What did it say? 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzpQ5HMaCU
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1a Just... 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVCcH40jEy
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4 (to 3.5) What do you hear? 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLCGAfYdVa
3.5 An annoying fuck-sucker running their mouth fucking dry. I doubt any of this carry on is even worth it. What when the time comes, will we really draw this moment back? 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzP2RWxOQp
4 Wait for the Word. It will not be the last-30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zegddb47R
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Suddenly, the overhead lights shut off. All are plunged into fear and darkness. 1a and 1b open their eyes wide, taking a heaving inhale, staring at something unseen in wonderment for a moment, collapsing into limp piles. They do not move from this point on. 4 stands up. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJe2EmTwsj
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3.5 (realisation setting in) The Word... 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLSHT4sNaK
4 That wasn’t the fucking Word, did that sound like a fucking Word to you? Excuse me. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPA3Owb2Gj5
3.5 There can be no Other. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWM3vUOVmE4
4 (calling up) Hey! You forgot us. Forgot me. I’m still here. You forgot about me. I have a reservation! / Come back for me! 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2htswbb4B
3.5 Would you shut up? No-one's coming to rescue us. There will be no others. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhk7ZpHL7sx
4 Have some fucking faith. (cradles telephone) It will come. Must come. Soon to come. Will come. Has to come. Please come. Listen to the ghosts. No. Not yet. (whispering) Not yet. Not yet. Listen. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqlvOJpqEH
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Notes for performers30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvzh8uBNGrf
> When a / mark occurs, indicates that the next line of dialogue begins. 30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSOWENDF9o
> While the four characters are somewhat familiar with each other, there should be no allusion to familial or relationship ties. They are a set of strangers, brought together by unknown circumstances.30Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3NQCh2c0e
> Love you forever B <3
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