[Boy and girl sit on chairs angled towards each other at center-stage.] Barry: I don't know how to say this, I feel a way I have never felt before. Everything is new... Martha: Baz, are you okay? B: Okay. I'm wonderful, exploding with... with... Oh my, Martha, I think, I'm in love with you! M: Are you sure? B: Totally. M: Wow. Oh Barry, I love you too! B: I want to be with you forever. Oh Martha! M: Oh Baz! B: Elope with me, let's run away to Tennessee and get married! Finally our lives can begin, together. M: Oh Baz! B: Oh Martha, it's so exciting, so scary... so exciting! M: Oh Baz! B: Oh Martha! M: Stop that Baz. I'd love to elope, I really would. But I just can't! B: What? Why not? I've been so deeply in love for so long, for, oh, fifteen minutes at least! I can hardly breathe. My heart is breaking! M: Oh Baz. B: Oh Mar... M: Stop it. This is important! I'm so sorry. I'm actually a man. B: Oh. M: I'm sorry. I knew you would understand. We can never be together. But can we still be friends? B: No. Wait! That's no problem. I just remembered I'm actually a woman! M: Oh Bec! B: Oh Marty! [Lights.] |