ATTEMPTED -- A PLAY BY KAE

Attempted -- A play by Kae

CAST:
1 : Does not know 6
2 : In a class with 6
3 : Best friend of 6
4 : Crush on 6
5 : Teacher of 6
6 : Attempted Suicide

Though 6 is written as a female this can easily be changed by slight rewording

ATTEMPTED

All actors, stand in a V-shape or staggered line, nothing should jump out about any character. 6 should not be in the middle, or have any attention drawn to her. Perhaps staggered levels

1 : I thought of the brooding type, the kind of person who never smiled or anything. I'd never seen her persey. But that was what I invisioned.

2 : There was some garbelled announcement. I heard her name, nothing more. I thought, 'I think she's in my history class.'

3 : If she ever had a best friend it would be me, but don't get the wrong idea, I didn't know her. I don't think anyone ever really knew her.

4 : She sat a few seats down from me in some class, maybe physics, or biology or something like that, anyways, it was lust at first sight.

5 : Quiet, yet forceful, intimidated the rest of the class, and was intimidated by them. Difficult to teach because she wasn't smart, she was wise.

6 : Tall, lanky, self-concious, a laugh you couldn't help but be frightened by. She terrified me. What she had become terrified me.

1 : I looked through the yearbook to give a face to the name.

3 : I visited her a few times, shit, she looked horrible

6 : I knew she had to stop that evil transformation

5 : I really looked at what my job means

4 : I didn't know what had happened

2 : I know it isn't my responsiblity

6 : She should have finished the job

5 : She has to get caught up someday

2 : She's just doing it to get attention. What an idiot.

1 : She's not what I imagined at all, kind of pretty, especially for a yearbook photo

3 : She's not the kind of person you question. She'll do what she wants either way.

4 : She'll never know my secret...never.

1,2,3,4,5 : She's learned there's no easy exit.

(6 walks slowly downstage, looking at the people that surround her)

6 : Have I? (beat) I tried to take my own life because I didn't feel real anymore, just a jumble of how people saw me, and as I tried one final escape I wondered how people would see me then. It was almost too late, but I survived. Now I realise one thing you can't escape, even in death is...

1,2,3,4,5,6: How people see you

(1,2,3,4,5 all exit slowly, not looking at 6)

6 : And how you are remembered.

(6 strikes a tableau of either agony, or suicide, fade to black)