{"id":521,"date":"2017-05-01T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/?p=521"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:58:00","slug":"please-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2017\/please-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Please Stay<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Ashley Busenlener<\/strong>\n \n May 1, 2017<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Scene 1:<\/h5>\n

Dining room table, plates stacked with napkins and silverware and cups next to them. There are 5 seats at the table. We are in a dining room\/kitchen area.<\/p>\n

(LISA enters with a platter of food, begins setting table and humming a tune to herself)<\/p>\n

(sets 5 places at the table and sits at the head, clasps hands and begins praying)<\/p>\n

LISA: Bless us oh Lord for the food you have set down at our table and for the loving gaze you shed on each of us every day.<\/p>\n

(begins taking food from the platter and putting some on every plate)<\/p>\n

(when she has finished, gazes at chair to the right of her) LISA: Bobby will you please use your fork to eat and not your hands\u2026Yes, Angelica you need to eat all your dinner if you want dessert. How was your day Celine? \u2026Well you know that ACT class is going to help you get your score up. Getting a scholarship is important\u2026Clarissa dear, I know you think those tests are bullshit, but Celine has to take them to get into college\u2026Yes, yes I know there are schools that don\u2019t use test scores, but do we really want to send her to a hippy dippy school?…Honey can we talk about this later, not in front of the kids.<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: Let\u2019s hold a moment.<\/p>\n

(Director enters from the audience, he is very expressive with his movements and facial features)<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: Beautiful, Lisa, beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. There\u2019s just one tiny thing I want you to fix.<\/p>\n

LISA: Yes?<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: I need you to get a little more frustrated with Clarissa. She\u2019s this very progressive, anti-government type woman, and your character is very much a moderate.<\/p>\n

LISA: Ok. Also, question. Do you know why the playwright decided to make my character\u2019s spouse a woman?<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: He\u2019s a very progressive man himself. He\u2019s all about pushing the envelope.<\/p>\n

LISA: OK.<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: Does it make you uncomfortable?<\/p>\n

LISA: No, no it\u2019s just my first rehearsal and I wanted to get a better sense of the play. Also I wonder if there\u2019s one thing we can change.<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: Probably not, but what is it?<\/p>\n

LISA: The dead son\u2019s name is Bobby, and my actual husband\u2019s name is Bobby. Would it be possible to change the son\u2019s name?<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: (laughs) Hun, it\u2019d be easier to change your husband\u2019s name than to get the playwright to change anything in this script. I know this is your first real show, but just get comfortable with it. At least the spouse isn\u2019t named Bobby.<\/p>\n

LISA: Of course.<\/p>\n

DIRECTOR: We\u2019re going to run that scene again and then end rehearsal.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Scene 2:<\/h5>\n

(decor of dining room and kitchen has changed slightly, BOBBY sits at the table reading a newspaper, LISA enters, not seeing him)<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Good morning love.<\/p>\n

(LISA jumps)<\/p>\n

LISA: Oh I didn\u2019t see you.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Talking to ghosts so much that you were weirded out when one talked back?<\/p>\n

LISA: (laughs nervously) I know you\u2019re not a ghost.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Oh, don’t forget you’re taking Caroline to her soccer match tonight.<\/p>\n

LISA: Oh! Right…. wait I can’t.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa, I told you weeks ago I had an important meeting with a client tonight and you needed to take her…<\/p>\n

LISA: Bobby I can’t, I have rehearsal.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: (slightly frustrated) I guess I’ll see if Lily’s mom can take her, and I’ll go to the second half of the game.<\/p>\n

LISA: Great. (Returns to looking at her script)<\/p>\n

BOBBY:\u00a0You know,\u00a0you should try to make her next game, she was a little upset that you missed the first one.<\/p>\n

LISA: Bobby, I had rehearsal, you know this is my\u00a0first\u00a0big break.<\/p>\n

BOBBY:\u00a0Tell your daughter that. I\u2019m going to make sure she\u2019s up for school.<\/p>\n

LISA: (absent mindedly nods)<\/p>\n

(BOBBY exits)<\/p>\n

LISA: (pauses) Angelica darling are you ready for school?….Ok great, go grab Bobby and we\u2019ll get in the car\u2026Oh Clarissa you don\u2019t have to take them I\u2019ve got it\u2026Are you sure?….Oh Celine get down here! (yells offstage, CAROLINE enters, she is about 16, typical teenage girl, LISA does not see her)\u2026Ok Clarissa if you really want to drive the rascals today that\u2019s fine. Just be careful, you know I worry about your driving. (gives CLARISSA peck on cheek)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Mom this is starting to get a little weird.<\/p>\n

LISA: (jolted out of her reverie) Oh Caroline, there you are! Where\u2019s your father?<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Grabbing his stuff for work, he\u2019s going to drive me to school today.<\/p>\n

LISA: Oh. You don\u2019t want me to drive you?<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: No that\u2019s ok, I wanted to ask him what he thought of my last soccer game, and you weren\u2019t there so\u2026<\/p>\n

LISA: Honey, I was at rehearsal.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: OK,\u00a0have fun talking to dead people I guess.<\/p>\n

LISA: Well they\u2019re not dead for the entirety of the play, there\u2019s flashback scenes.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Whatever mom.<\/p>\n

(BOBBY enters)<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Ready to go pumpkin?<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Dad seriously?<\/p>\n

BOBBY: What?<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Ugh.<\/p>\n

LISA: Honey are you sure you want to drive today?<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Yeah, I don\u2019t mind at all.<\/p>\n

LISA: I really think it\u2019s a bad idea, letting you two get in the car without me.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Why? We\u2019ve done it plenty of times.<\/p>\n

LISA: I just have a bad feeling.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Hey Dad we gotta go or I\u2019ll be late.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa there\u2019s nothing to worry about. (kisses her quick and exits with Caroline behind him)<\/p>\n

LISA: No no no no no no no no no. Officer, officer please there must be some mistake. They can\u2019t all be dead. My little Bobby? Angelica? Celine? Clarissa?? My Clarissa?…Why. Why. Why.<\/p>\n

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Scene 3:<\/h5>\n

(we remain in the same kitchen, LISA is sitting at the table with her head in her hands, she is wearing all black, kitchen slightly messier)<\/p>\n

LISA: (lifts head) And then there was one, but soon there will be none\u2026How can I go on like this? I refuse to believe that they\u2019re gone. They can\u2019t be gone. I love them too much. I will make them stay here. I will make them STAY.<\/p>\n

(BOBBY enters in pajamas)<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa what are you wailing about? It\u2019s 2 in the morning.<\/p>\n

LISA: Sorry dear, just practicing my lines.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Isn\u2019t that what the six hour rehearsal you had tonight was for?<\/p>\n

LISA: No, I mean yes, but no.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: You\u2019re not making any sense.<\/p>\n

LISA: Well yes I practice them there, but it\u2019s more working on the scenes. I have to learn my lines when I\u2019m not at the theatre.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: I see. Come to bed, it\u2019s late.<\/p>\n

LISA: In a minute.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa.<\/p>\n

LISA: I need to concentrate on the deaths of my beloved children and wife.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: You\u2019ve got a husband and daughter right here to pay attention to you. You\u2019ve barely noticed us for months. Caroline has her championship game tomorrow.<\/p>\n

LISA: Mhmm. (stares at the script in front of her)<\/p>\n

BOBBY: I\u2019m sure she\u2019d love it if you could be there.<\/p>\n

LISA: I have rehearsal.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: At 2 pm?<\/p>\n

LISA: Yes, it\u2019s another 6-hour rehearsal.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: I think you\u2019re taking this acting thing a little too far.<\/p>\n

LISA: This is my livelihood!<\/p>\n

BOBBY: You only just started! You were perfectly happy working in that casting office, and now you have this little part and you think you\u2019re a primadonna.<\/p>\n

LISA: You know this has been my dream!<\/p>\n

BOBBY: It\u2019s consuming you! I never know if you\u2019re talking to me anymore or to your dead fictional wife and children! Caroline and I are real! Pay attention to us!<\/p>\n

(CAROLINE enters, also in pajamas)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Mom, Dad, you\u2019re being really loud and I\u2019m trying to sleep.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Sorry Caroline.<\/p>\n

LISA: Yes, yes, sorry Celine dear.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Mom that\u2019s not my name.<\/p>\n

LISA: Right sorry.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: I\u2019m going back to bed.<\/p>\n

(BOBBY gives LISA a sad look and exits)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: What\u2019s wrong with you?<\/p>\n

LISA: Nothing, I\u2019m fine. Of course I\u2019m fine. Why wouldn\u2019t I be fine?<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Woah there, I was just asking.<\/p>\n

LISA: Can you just go back to sleep? I was trying to practice my lines.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Depends. Are you coming to my game tomorrow?<\/p>\n

LISA: I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t \u2013 I have rehearsal.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: You\u2019ve had rehearsal during every single one of my games this season. You can\u2019t miss it just once? Not even for my championship game?<\/p>\n

(LISA shakes her head and starts to talk but)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: You don\u2019t care about me at all! (CAROLINE storms out)<\/p>\n

LISA: Celine wait! I do care! Damnit. Not Celine. Celine is dead. No, Celine isn\u2019t real. None of it is real. It isn\u2019t real, it\u2019s a play, pay attention to your real family Lisa. C\u2019mon Lisa it\u2019s just a play OK. None of this is real.<\/p>\n

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Scene 4:<\/h5>\n

(LISA is in her robe cooking in the kitchen, it is nighttime)<\/p>\n

(BOBBY & CAROLINE enter singing \u201cWe are the Champions,\u201d Caroline is wearing her soccer uniform & BOBBY is decked out in her team colors)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: (so excited about winning she forgets she\u2019s supposed to be angry with her mother) Mom, Mom! We won! We won the game!<\/p>\n

LISA: (deadpan, with no enthusiasm) That\u2019s great honey.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa, this is really exciting.<\/p>\n

LISA: (ignoring him, almost talking to herself) They hate me, and I am all alone.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: What are you talking about?<\/p>\n

LISA: (turns abruptly to face CAROLINE & BOBBY) The director\u2019s friend came to watch the run tonight, and he hated me. He told the director that, and now he probably hates me too.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: I\u2019m sure he doesn\u2019t hate…<\/p>\n

LISA: (flash of manic joy) I know! I know what I have to do.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: (slightly weirded out) Mom.. are you OK?<\/p>\n

LISA: I need to become my character.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: That seems extreme.<\/p>\n

LISA: (calm, collected) You don\u2019t understand. The play has to become my reality.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Mom, you\u2019re starting to sound insane.<\/p>\n

LISA: The director\u2019s friend said I sounded too sane. Like it didn\u2019t bother me that my wife and three children were dead.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa, it\u2019s one critic.<\/p>\n

LISA: There will be so many more. This is my only chance.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Just stop. Maybe you should quit the show.<\/p>\n

LISA: (laughs) Quit the show?! And I\u2019m insane?<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Do whatever you want Mom…it\u2019s not like you care enough to listen anyways. (exits)<\/p>\n

LISA: At least that\u2019s more guilt I can channel into the show.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa what\u2019s the real problem here?<\/p>\n

LISA: The problem is you\u2019re not dead.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Excuse me?<\/p>\n

LISA: I can\u2019t feel emotionally connected to my character if I have a loving family to go home to.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: (laughs) So you want us to leave?<\/p>\n

LISA: That would certainly help.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: (sidles up to LISA, pulls her robe off one shoulder) Now I know you\u2019re joking.<\/p>\n

LISA: What are you doing?<\/p>\n

BOBBY: You just need to relax.<\/p>\n

LISA: Bobby stop, this isn\u2019t right. I\u2019m in mourning.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Stop being an actress and be my wife.<\/p>\n

LISA: Right now I have to be someone else\u2019s widow.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: OK maybe saying you should quit the show was a little extreme, but you certainly need a break.<\/p>\n

LISA: I don’t have time to take a break! The show opens in two weeks!<\/p>\n

BOBBY: (getting angry) Well what do you want me to do Lisa? How can I help you? You want me to die?<\/p>\n

LISA: No, but you can leave.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: You’re serious.<\/p>\n

LISA: Yes. Please leave.<\/p>\n

(BOBBY exits and returns with CAROLINE by the hand, he is holding a suitcase and a stack of clothes)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Dad what’s going on?<\/p>\n

BOBBY: This is what you want Lisa?? You want us gone? (He plans to call her bluff, He starts putting the clothes in the suitcase)<\/p>\n

LISA: Bobby it’s the only way.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Mom, mom stop!<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Grab your stuff Caroline, your mom wants us to go.<\/p>\n

LISA: I’m sorry, I can’t love you. I have to love my dead children, Angelica, Celine, and Bobby.<\/p>\n

BOBBY: Lisa, last chance. Do you want us to leave? Because we won’t come back, (he desperately wants her to say stay)<\/p>\n

LISA: (as if in a trance) Please stay.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: What?<\/p>\n

LISA: Please stay Clarissa, please don’t be dead. I told you not to drive the car, I need you here, please I can’t do this without you.<\/p>\n

(At same time) BOBBY: Lisa stop please. We’re right here. It\u2019s me, your husband Bobby.<\/p>\n

LISA: I should have taken the children to school that day, why did you all have to die, why did you all leave me, I’m so sad, I can’t bear it. (LISA begins whispering the next lines almost to herself) I need you Clarissa, I need you, please stay, please stay.<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Dad. Dad!<\/p>\n

BOBBY: (he has been staring at LISA helpless, but he snaps out of it) Caroline, let’s go. She wants us gone, so we’ll leave.<\/p>\n

(LISA continues to ask Clarissa to stay)<\/p>\n

CAROLINE: Goodbye mom, I hope you’re happy now…<\/p>\n

(BOBBY & CAROLINE exit with the suitcase)<\/p>\n

LISA: (snaps out of her reverie) They’re gone. Good, good that’s what I wanted. Now I can be the best. Clarissa, we can be the best!<\/p>\n

(Blackout)<\/p>\n

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Scene 5:<\/h5>\n

(LISA enters the kitchen with a tub of ice cream and holding a newspaper clipping)<\/p>\n

LISA: (reading from the newspaper) Lisa Cartwright, the newest actress in our theatre scene may find herself soon to leave it. In a 2-hour long performance of\u00a0Please Stay, Cartwright mourns so unconvincingly that I don\u2019t think one person even teared up in the theatre tonight. Her deadpan acting and inability to produce any sort of emotion makes this show the must not see of the year and a complete flop.<\/p>\n

(staggers over to chair)<\/p>\n

LISA: A complete flop. (starts laughing) Do they know what I gave up for this show? I poured my soul into it. I told my husband and daughter to leave so that I could feel my character\u2019s pain. And now I\u2019ve lost everything. Lost everything to the theatre (starts laughing, then pauses suddenly) But at least I have you, my dear Clarissa, you\u2019ve kept by my side through all of this. Maybe I\u2019ll start dating women. Men are too complicated. They want so much attention and seem like they need sex. Bobby kept complaining about the lack of sex. (laughs again) Well when Clarissa died in that car crash I wasn\u2019t getting laid, was I? I had to know what that felt like. I would almost rather be her at this point. Anything can be better than this. Clarissa stay with me. I know the play is over. I know my life is in shambles. So Clarissa please stay with me. Please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Ashley Busenlener<\/strong> is a sophomore majoring in Theatre and minoring in Public Relations. She is the publicist for Aeneid Theatre Company and the marketing director of Brand New Theatre, which produced Please Stay<\/em> last semester, as part of their One Act Play Festival. Ashley also is a marketing\/production intern at Hero Theatre, and a social media assistant for USC Civic Engagement. She loves anything to do with theatre and public relations, and loves to keep busy. 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