A Vampire Play

14/09/10

A VAMPIRE PLAY
by
Graham Jones
Characters:
Jane Prosser: a bit of a tomboy, assertive but not too much so.
Marion Parker: a trifle nervy.
Suzanne Hough: Quite confident.
Frances Sherman: A bit nervy but not as much as Marion.
Catherine Slade: Older than the others who are all in their middle to late teens.
(The scene is the inside a large garden shed: door to the right in the back wall; window in the middle of back wall; an old table, a few chairs, some bric-a-brac; on the left a long wooden chest - coffin-like.)
(Music: an old-fashioned music box tune.)
(Into the shed come Jane Prosser, Marion Parker, Suzanne Hough and Frances Sherman.)
(They go to the table and spread out a map on it. They all lean over it looking at it.)
Suzanne: Here, you see? (points) Just here, near the stream. That’s where he said he’d leave the present if he didn’t come himself.
Jane: Did he give a reason why he might not come?
Suzanne: No.
Marion: What sort of present? Did he say?
Suzanne: No, he just said it’d be something I’d like.
Jane: Strange.
Frances: What is?
Jane: All of it. We go to the end of term “prom” and Suzanne meets this guy who is.... (pause)....
Suzanne: Who is what Jane?
Jane: Nothing. Who is good looking and a bit more mature than most there. But....
All: But?
Jane: But nobody knows who he was.
Frances: A gatecrasher? Suzanne: was he?
Suzanne: I don’t know. I assumed he was in the school or maybe a friend of someone there.... He was very nice.... nice to me.
Marion: You fell for him didn’t you. I saw you kiss him.
Suzanne: O shut up Marion. OK I did kiss him but....
Marion: He didn’t kiss you back. (pause) Sorry but I couldn’t help noticing. And he was so tall and handsome and....
Jane: You fancied him too then.
Marion: Yes, I did. But he was with Suzanne so that was that.
(Marion smiles at Suzanne who smiles back.)
Jane: It’s getting dark.
Frances: I don’t want to be in this old shed when it’s dark.
Marion: Nor me.

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