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The Weekly-ish Prompt*

(*Note: If you would like to have an excerpt of yours featured in the next Weekly-ish Prompt, please send a note to ~birdofj. For more info, check out this link: [link] Thanks!)

This week's Weekly-ish Prompt is:

<> First, the theme is~

Loss of Greatness and/or Descent into Madness

<> Second, a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson ~

"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

<> Third, Broken Rose by ~evenstar13~

This is a creative exercise, and not at all mandatory. You may use this prompt as inspiration for your own writing, or decide to do your own thing.

Responses can include monologues, short skits, one-acts, or whatever.

Remember to send your entries (with the prompt in the description) to the Weekly-ish Prompts Gallery Folder.

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Mad World Mad World
Playwright: Alexandra Perras
Setting(s):
An ice cream shop, a bathroom, and a classroom in a school
Characters:
Taryn: A regular high school student who appreciates people for what they are and accepts them no matter what flaws they possess. Taryn is always optimistic, bright, and has a strong opinion about life and society.
Alina: Also a regular high school student who is known as the bully. She makes people cower because she likes to see herself above everyone else. Alina thinks society is right in the way that it portrays the stereotypes of people. She believes that she is one of those gorgeous, and superior individual iMad World by ~alxplaysguitar

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Mafia Youth Project (Scene opens in a sauna, Mike is sitting by the hot coals on the other side sits Angelo.)

Mike: ...So really it's more of a challenge then it seems being a librarian, so what do you do?

Angelo: Me? I work in the Mafia.

Mike: I'm sorry?

Angelo: I work for the Mafia.

Mike: You're a hitman!?

Angelo: What? No! No, no, no! I work in recruitment.

Mike: (Confused) Recruitment?

Angelo: Yes, I run the Mafia Youth Reach-out Projects... MYROP for short.

Mike: The mob has a youth club?

Angelo: Of course, the Mafia see's the younger community as an important source of future employment and is committed to reaching out to potential employees.

MiMafia Youth Project by ~Rico616

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Maniacal Events, M.E., Act 1 by ~panda-saxophonist

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Martin Luther- Quick Play Martin Luther and The Church Reformation- The Play

Act I

Scene I: Scene opens up to church monastery.

Luther: I WILL PAY MY DEBT TO THEE, MY LORD.

[Flashback to Thunderstorm, Luther rides horse down dirt path.]

Horse- Whinnies and kicks Luther Off. Gallops further ahead down dirt road.

Luther: NO! MY STEED, RETURN TO ME, AND MAKE HASTE!
Luther- Attempts to get up, but grabs knee in pain. Looks up at sky as the rain from above begins to poor harder and harder.
Luther: I MUST MAKE DO HASTE. FOR IF I DO NOT REMOVE MYSELF FROM THE AIM OF THIS RAIN, I WILL SUCCUMB TO GODS WILL OF DEATH.

[Clouds thunder above, lightning begins to light uMartin Luther- Quick Play by ~Valor-Wiz

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By expressing my deepest obsessions, I express my deepest humanity. I become one with all others, spontaneously, over and above all the barriers of caste and different psychologies. I express my solitude and become one with all other solitudes.

Eugène Ionesco

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One-Acts

Act II (A man sits alone in the middle of a room, staring at nothing. The room is empty, with no furniture. There are three windows at the back. A second man enters stage Right. He is wearing outdoor clothing: a hat, scarf, overcoat, boots, etc. He walks across the stage and exits stage left. The sitting man (person 1) doesn't react. The walking man (Person 2) pokes his head in from off stage.)

2: Excuse me, but what are you doing?

1: (Not looking up.) I'm alone in this room and I can't get out.

2: Right. Yes. Thank you. (Exits, waits a few moments, and then re-enters.) Are you sure about that?

1: I'm alone in this room and I can't get out.

2: Act II by ~Mcfeegle

After "The End" by ~LoveItalia2011

The Angel Game The Angel Game

(The scene opens on a school hallway. Lockers line one side. They are split in half: there is one locker on top, and one on the bottom. There is a group of high school girls talking and giggling next to the lockers. Ella Clark is one of the girls, and she is opening a locker on top, while talking to another girl. Enter Dahlia White. She kneels down at one of the lockers on the bottom, and starts to open it.)

ELLA
(Sarcastically)
Hey Dahlia, I like your glasses!

(Dahlia ignores her. The other girls laugh. As the teasing goes on, however, they slowly stop laughing.)

ELLA
Four Eyes, what are you doing this weekend? Going ouThe Angel Game by ~GuinevereToGwen

Backstage and ... Scene 1 Scene 1

Scene changes should be as fluid as possible, with little need for black outs. The scene headings in this play are merely an indication of a new part of the story starting.

Classical, Dramatic, Comedy, Romance and Modern on stage with their backs to the audience. Narrator runs on.

Narrator
Oh, the show's started...Oops! Well, I'm just gonna start and try and regain what little dignity I have left. (straightens up) Welcome, one and all, to our exhibition tonight! We will be seeing the things that you don't know about the theater. Like what really goes on in auditions, who the people on stage really are, and a bunch of other things Backstage and ... Scene 1 by ~viiemzee

One-Acts

Multi-Acts

girl who goes home [ONE]

II: —Your room smells like Cheetos and pot.

I: If you hate it so much, breath through your mouth—It's my room.

II: Ugh, and your breath smells even worse. altoid?

I: Fuck you.

II: Mhm.

I: Ew—lesbo!

III: —Oh my god, you two. Shut. Up.

I: Okay, okay, cut the bitchy attitude. I shoulda' known better then to let you raid the tea box; you always get crazy when you drink more than two cups at once.

III: I do not! You little—

II: —Now, Now, girls, be nice.

I: Okay, okay whatever. No one gives a crap.

II: Hey, pass me a slice of jalapeño pizza?

III: So—uh . . .so when should we stagirl who goes home by ~MindlessThinker

Almina - Dramma in Tre Atti by ~SudYugi

Among Three Kings - Part One DARKNESS.

The FRAME is hit with a sudden light from the opening of a cabinet door. WILL looks down at us. He reaches in to grab SOMETHING.

Will pulls out a stack of old sketches and crafts and places them in his lap. He looks through them, flipping pages and random notes, until he comes across an odd booklet. On it reads:

AMONG THREE KINGS.

He looks behind himself.

WILL
Hey, guys! I found something! Guys? Come
here!

No one answers.

He looks back down at the booklet with a worried expression on his face and gets up.

CUT TO Will walking into the…

INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

LOGAN is seen sitting on the couch, hands interlAmong Three Kings - Part One by *Zahniac

Arkham Asylum, Act 1 by ~Manofevil

Multi-Acts

Skits

An Absurd Affair by ~alesuriko

Aftereffects by ~fangir05

Another Day in English Class... (scene opens to normal class room with a stupid holiday movie playing. Two girls sit together)

Rachel: (pokes the girl next to her) Hey friend!

Alice: Rawr.

Rachel: (laughs) really?

Alice: Yes really! (sticks tongue out)

Rachel: you're a dork

Alice: (looks at Rachel with a teasing smile) You know it!

Rachel: (rolls eyes) I don't know you!

Alice: Why ya' talkin' to me then? (mocks)

Rachel: Cause I like to talk to strangers! Even though I shouldn't! (mocks back)

Alice: Well then! (says over dramatically)

Rachel and Alice: (look at each other then repress a burst of giggles)

Alice: Meow.

Rachel: (chirps like a bird)

*Teacher shoot Another Day in English Class... by ~Rapunzel13

The Beetleman Cometh FADE IN:

EXT. A BUSTLING PARK - DAY

HENRY sits alone on a park bench, talking quietly to himself, breathing heavily, and staring up into the sky.

HENRY
Faucets. Faucets dripping, crying, bleeding. Bleeding blood and sauce and sauce and vinegar.

HENRY sighs loudly. A SMALL BOY runs up to him.

HENRY
Hello boy. I see that you are with child.

The SMALL BOY looks as though he's about to vomit.

HENRY
It's alright, lad. Just let them all out. It's the miracle of life you have there in your gullet.

The SMALL BOY lurches forward and releases a slime coated wealth of writhing and wiggling beetles onto the ground below.

SMALL BOY
This is ouThe Beetleman Cometh by ~Zarameus

Skits

Monologues

Character Monolouges (Videogame idea) Two bullets wounds. One in each eye. I know everything, or at least more than everyone alive and I know she did not need that. Detective had to make sure he killed her. My head is in a constant flux of right and wrong. True and False. The just and the unjust. Nothing that I had experienced in my eons of life had prepared me for that moment in time, and nothing in my future will repair it. I don't seek retribution for allowing the death of mother, but escape. I am the Child of Eden, and this world is in peril.
- Child of Eden (Coe)

Native American. Canadian. Sub-Saharan. British. And Italian. Those are my nationalities. Medium skin with a toCharacter Monolouges (Videogame idea) by ~MascoCountry

almond tea Black

SIMON (V.O)
Right, is this on? Hello?

TITLES

INT. Room.
The tripod camera is turned on. It moves around, trying to focus the lens as it does so.

SIMON
Uh…mm…right. Let's see…uh oh!

Black.

TITLES

INT. Room.
Camera comes back on. SIMON waves his hand in front of the lens.

SIMON
Ah, there we go!

The room through the camera lens is a spacey, well-lit room that is large with a big window filtering light. We can hear the casual rush of traffic outside. There is some clutter, but more like artistic mess. It's a nice place; bland but peaceful. SIMON enters, walking round from the back of the camera. He's aalmond tea by ~123Dimensional

Anger - A Monologue by ~Conscience-Or-Heart

Braver Men Than I by ~Mad-Eyes

Monologues

Weekly-ish Prompts

Aftereffects by ~fangir05

Cloudgazing (GWEN, a little girl, and her GRANDPA are lying atop a grassy knoll, watching the clouds pass overhead. The afternoon sun is high in the sky, and a warm breeze tumbles through the air. GWEN points upwards lazily.)

GWEN
Look at that one, Grandpa! It's an elephant riding a bicycle. See, there are the wheels, and there's his trunk rising above all the rest.

(GRANDPA stares intently at the cloud in question, brow furrowed.)

GRANDPA
Yes… yes, I can make it out. Clever find, Gwennie.
(He searches the skies.)
Do you see that one? There, on the left?

GWEN
Yeah…

GRANDPA
What do you think it looks like, Gwen?

(GWEN thinks for a Cloudgazing by ~Adagiobunny

Conversations With Gay People by ~fangir05

The Definition of Pain. by ~ACitizenoftheWorld

Weekly-ish Prompts

Works In Progress

Beautiful Cecilia - FW 12 by ~SudYugi

Behind the Broken Mask Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 1
{Curtain draws to show Teodore and Madison sitting in chairs at a table with Vanessa on the other side}

Teodore
Let your mercy shine unto us Mistress Vanessa, though your soul may be an abyss, and eyes an ice block. Please bless our son with good intents before he does emerge into this evil world. Please allow us your divine treatment for today's moon approaches our region.

Vanessa
In good intent do I look onto your weasel attempts to seduce a blessing of good yet why has not maiden spoken yet. I have heard one cry I wait for the next child to tear up. Unless love is not an emotion abundant enough to ask for help when it'sBehind the Broken Mask Act 1, Scene 1 by ~ToxicEclispe

B'more by *raineydays

DELETE (Lights up on SHIRA. She sits on her bed in a dimly lit studio apartment. Across from her bed, is an empty one. She is holding her Blackberry)

SHIRA: (to self) My biggest pet peeve is when people don't text me back after I tell them something anecdotal. At least give me a "haha". Seriously. You don't even have to really laugh. All it is is two letters, twice each. Or even more simple: lol. Honestly, you don't even have to read it.

(looks down at phone) Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Michael...this guy hasn't texted or called me in at least three weeks. Fuck him. I hate him. Delete. Goodbye. I don't need any of these people. If they can't aDELETE by ~KleynOdessa

Works In Progress

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Leap of Faith Act 1 by =shadow-boy

Graphic Novel Scripts

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~MiikaC May 2, 2012 Writer

Thanks for the invite : )

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Who needs words when you have tears

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*ClayCowboys May 1, 2012

Thanks for the invite.

--
But'cha are, Blanche! Ya are in that chair! ~ Bette Davis as Baby Jane.

No! It was in forty-seven! I remember because that was the year Hank Williams puked in my lap! ~ Murphy Bligh

Team Dean Stockwell!

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~MascoCountry May 1, 2012 Writer

Thanks for invite!

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I am looking for something...
It can't be found in the store...
And it is of transcending value to me...
I don't know what is...
I may not find it in my life, but I will always search for it!

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~DarkZero-the-Lemming Apr 27, 2012

Why did I get an invitation here? I don't write anything remotely similar to playwrights.

Oh, well. *joins*

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