Excerpt of The Game
(From the beginning)
(BEATRICE sits in a wheelchair. There may be a
vital-signs monitor. AGNES enters using a walker.
Both are hard of hearing.)
AGNES
(Shouts.) I came to give you trouble.
BEATRICE
You’re too old to give me trouble.
AGNES
What?
BEATRICE
I said you’re too old to give me trouble.
AGNES
If you expect to be heard, speak up!
BEATRICE
I said you’re too old to give me trouble!
AGNES
You don’t have to repeat yourself.
BEATRICE
Put in your hearing aid Aggie!
AGNES
I don’t—
BEATRICE
It’s in your purse!
AGNES
Oh that’s right.
(AGNES finds it and puts it in her ear.)
It wouldn’t hurt for you to put in yours.
BEATRICE
Oh for goodness sakes!
(BEATRICE finds hers and puts it in.)
AGNES
Well, have you accomplished it yet?
BEATRICE
Accomplished what for God’s sake! You are so obtuse.
AGNES
What we talked about last time.
BEATRICE
You expect me to remember what we talked about last time? That was months ago.
AGNES
A week. It was a week ago. I wouldn’t stay away a month when you’re—
BEATRICE
Don’t be melodramatic. I’m not dying.
AGNES
Well if you’re not dying, you’re sure running up one heck of a bill. You should tell them out there!
(…continued…)
Judy Rollings as Beatrice Theatre Artists Studio Summer Shorts, 2023
Judy Lebeau as Agnes Theatre Artists Studio
Summer Shorts, 2023