I had to make Act 3 Scene 1 of a Shakespearean-style play for Shakespeare class. My two group members and I acted this out in class. What makes it Shakespearean is the irreversible action.
Plot: Isabella wants to kill Fabio, drug dealer, and Pinnochio, low life. Melina is Isabella's lesbian lover, but Melina betrayed Isabella and slept with Fabio and Pinnochio, simultaneously.
[Enter Isabella in Monk's Coffee Shop]
Isabella: How now shall I settle the score withe those cockered hell-hated giglets? O the pain of losing a lover. Especially to a couple of dudes. I thought Melina was honest and chaste, though now I see that she is bi-sexual. I cannot stand those bastards. How dare they steal my one true love. She was all I had. Now that she’s gone, I have nothing to live for – except crystal meth. I must take from them what they took from me: everything. I must take their greatest strength, and make that their greatest weakness.
People at Monk's: I'm trying to read here. Take a seat! Shut the hell up lady! [Isabella, embarrassed, crawls into a booth] [Enter Melina, Fabio, and Pinnochio. They sit with Isabella.] Melina: Hey Isabella. You look distraught. Fabio: Yeah, you look like you could use a little sumtin sumtin. Pinnochio: He means crystal meth. Isabella: Hm, that sounds good. Drop some a' that shizzle in my joe. Fabio: I would, but there's other people here. Isabella: Later then. Fabio: When, exactly? Isabella: How 'bouteth right noweth? Out in the back alley -- eth. Fabio: Fantubular. Let us go. [Exit Isabella and Fabio] Melina: Well Pinnochio, it's just you and me. How about it? Pinnochio: Yeah, I'm up for some coffee, if you know what I mean. Melina: Alright, I'll order some for us. Waiter! Get me two coffees! [In the back alley] Fabio: So, how much do you want? Isabella: How much do you got? Fabio: I got all you need. Isabella: Then let's see it. Fabio, pulling meth out of jacket pocket: You want the first hit? Isabella: I'd be honored. Give me two handfuls.
[Fabio gives two big crystals to Isabella. She takes the crystals and shoves them up Fabio's nose. Fabio gasps as the crystals go up his nose and he dies instantly from too much meth in his brain.]
Isabella, devilishly: For Melina. [Isabella takes the remaining meth and conceals it. She runs back into Monk's.] Isabella, panting: Melina! Pinnochio! Fabio's dead! He OD'eth on the metheth! Somehow, two big chunks got lodged in his nose! Melina: By the gods I prithee, make known me how this hath happened!
Isabella: I know not. I did yanketh mine head back, so as to popeth mine neck. When I did regain myself, there did I see the dead body of great Fabio, the drug dealer.
Pinnochio, to the crystal meth in his hand: Stupid crystal meth! You killed my best friend! And now you've taken Fabio too! You killed my other friends just so you could be number one in my heart! Well guess what, it's over between us! I'm never doing you again! I'm going back to alcohol! [Drops the meth and storms out of Monk's]
Isabella: Come Melina, let us mourn Fabio at my place.
Melina: No. Pinnochio needs comforting. [She exits]
Isabella: Half the deed is done. Pinnochio may have had an emotional breakup with crystal meth, but if I know him as well as I do, and I do, I know he'll come crawling back to it. Ha ha ha ha!
People at Monk's: Enough already! Keep it down! Fire in the hole! [A loud fart. Everybody freezes.] [Exit Isabella]
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