PLAY #

SOMETHING ABOUT STORMS AND FLOODS

Written by
Joseph Frost

Draft
8/27/17

written as part of the 2017 31 Plays in 31 Days challenge

FrostJosephD@gmail.com
Member, Dramatists Guild of America
 A woman stands in a pool of water.

WOMAN
When the rains came
I found myself
alone

Pounding water on water

sky slapping the collected
covering the land

falling and rising

poured and pooling
storm and swell

when the rains came

I found myself
by myself
under
water

A man comes and sits in the water.

MAN
You stayed.

WOMAN
I didnt want to.

MAN
But you stayed.

WOMAN
I did.

MAN
Didnt heed the warnings.

WOMAN
I heeded them.

MAN
You didnt listen.
 2.

WOMAN
I listened.

MAN
You didnt act on them.

WOMAN
I didnt act on them.

MAN
Then they were not heeded.

A moment.

MAN (CONTD)
I suppose you want to be rescued.

WOMAN
I want it to stop.

MAN
It will.

WOMAN
When.

MAN
I cant say.

WOMAN
How do you know.

MAN
History.

WOMAN
You cant be sure.

MAN
I can. It will pass. Storms come and go. Waters rise and fall. Has been. Will be.

WOMAN
Unless it didnt.
 3.

A moment.

MAN
You were warned.

WOMAN
I was.

MAN
You were warned and you knew the risks and you took it.

WOMAN
I only meant to live.

MAN
I know.

WOMAN
I only meant to survive.

MAN
We all meant to survive. But this is how some of us didnt.
This is how some of us didnt.

She sits in the pool as well.

They do a series of choreographed movements to represent

a storm.

It ends with both of them putting their faces underwater.

They sit up together, gasping for air.

They stop.

Lights down.

End.