Note for reader: Along with the many scraps of details, horror prose and poetry left behind in my mother's box, there are a few plays. As long as I knew her, she never expressed any sort of intense love of theatre so I don't understand why she would create these. Then again, I never knew anything about the 'Beatrice Record' (and still am no closer to understanding why it's called that). Here is one such play. It has the title "Probably for the Best" Viewer discretion: there's a lot of swears351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGg1WkpbNpw
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4 (Eve), 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0CFPv6W8z
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1b (Hallelujah), 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvfH18VGwx
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Many years into the future. A shelter or room deep underground. Dimly-lit enclosed space. All characters sit on floor despite two benches upstage center. Light from phone screens must be able to illuminate faces. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcyATz1O3Z
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SCENE ONE 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJHKnXyz9c
Dim fluorescent lights illuminate a shelter. There are two dirty benches upstage center, which remain empty, but for an old rotary telephone – between 1b and 1a. Also, a window with only darkness outside it. Four people sit huddled around on the floor. From left to right, there is 3.5, 4, 1b and 1a. The numbers correspond to the person’s rank, but also their title. All are dressed in combat boots and dark, stained overalls. Messy hair, especially 1a and 1b, whose mannerisms and actions are like young children. All are engrossed in their phone screen, except 4, who stares straight out. 3.5 also sometimes breaks their gaze away from the screen to stare at 4. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wNLrDLjgL
For a moment all simply sit in this space, before 4 starts to speak. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bacxK14Kw
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4 Listen to the ghosts. Listen for the Word. Listen. No. Don’t stop speaking yet. You think you’re high and mighty now that you’re above them, pissfuck? Excuse me.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1rMPrysLC
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3.5 I’m right here if you want to fight me, you pathetic fuckcupboard-head. Say it to my face. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlO4pI7SGP
4 I can’t look at you. I won’t think about the violent acts I want to enlist on you. Excuse me. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0yHKRhz5r
3.5 Through all of these endless tribulations, I’m glad it’s ending. There! I said it. I said it because it’s true. You’d say the same if you had balls! Fuck-cunt! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQwLM6hcPe
4 Excuse her. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3njXs4Too7
3.5 What are we waiting for? Let’s end it now! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKaZSL6jzc
1b We’re waiting for the Word! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWHPIKVG12
1a Woohoo! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAxiIx5vai
Pause. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxGNzS7zu5
4 Oh, someone fill the fucking silence! Excuse me. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnXqeyyuQ1
1a Excuse me? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCgZzu4UHC
3.5 What would you have us do, pissbitch? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPf0mTa4uYh
4 Our time is precious. So, fill-fucking-fill it! Excuse me. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUVGGi5KWE
1a (as if they’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to speak) Well, I would like to take this moment to say that I have enjoyed every moment of our time here, and through and through, all of the days and years and how long, the black days, the fighting nights, all of the on-and-ons – all of it. So, yeah. / Thanks guys. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Mo8ojL1x9
4 (to 3.5) I’ve been thinking it over in my head. Excuse me. Thinking over each and every way I could break your neck and get away with it unseen, so to speak, excuse me! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwDMcZ19ai5
3.5 I’m right here, whorehouse. I wish you’d done it before you went and betrayed me. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78nqFPiIa8
4 I never / betrayed you. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26qGPceCOo
1b And so, we wait. Not a word, nor the Word. From outside. I miss the sun. It’s been some time now since it was visible. I miss the rain. Even the burning one. I miss it all. Now just a memory, and even that ... I think I can hear a ghost ... 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMOQmyfAFV
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4 Fill the space!351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXa0ta09wMb
3.5 You betrayed me. You betrayed me. / And now you blame me? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuohkHmpD6R
4 Fucker, I never betrayed you (excuse me), I ‘teached’ to you, and you listened, gaping and glistening for all of the wisdom in the world. Let us pray! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGMrtVoPqy
1a (innocently) Who will we pray to today?351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtyiMUj1kw
1b I thought that I saw an illusion in the blackness. I think it was my dashing husband. Can we pray to that?351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWHMtFJXNZ
1a Can we pray to that?
3.5 Can we? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Q55vqtoEB
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3.5 Pray to his- / sorry, her illusion? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJWKoZZLml
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4 You ridiculous fucking children! Excuse me. No, you cannot pray to that, you won’t have arses when I’m done lashing you. Now. Pray! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2Yd23oOWV
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Mumbling prayers. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMOYf48Rdw
Not quite. Fill the space! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8KUHFuEcsQ
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Rest of party unsure whether they should continue praying or speak. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVJHE8VNhj
1a I heard a ghost! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPTmL78v2c
4 (frightened) What did it say? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALEi5WygTv
1b I hear it too. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnR2s1skWs
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1a Just... 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJeCM41FSi
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3.5 An annoying fuck-sucker running their mouth fucking dry. I doubt any of this carry on is even worth it. What when the time comes, will we really draw this moment back? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNVgYp21BO3
4 Wait for the Word. It will not be the last-351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ250x9qjObL
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Suddenly, the overhead lights shut off. All are plunged into fear and darkness. 1a and 1b open their eyes wide, taking a heaving inhale, staring at something unseen in wonderment for a moment, collapsing into limp piles. They do not move from this point on. 4 stands up. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmmw53bA6K
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3.5 (realisation setting in) The Word... 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QnB9BVlVP
4 That wasn’t the fucking Word, did that sound like a fucking Word to you? Excuse me. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Gyyeb0UFH
3.5 There can be no Other. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8VHC5Az77
4 (calling up) Hey! You forgot us. Forgot me. I’m still here. You forgot about me. I have a reservation! / Come back for me! 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtZstHZmns
3.5 Would you shut up? No-one's coming to rescue us. There will be no others. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqs7gB58N3
4 Have some fucking faith. (cradles telephone) It will come. Must come. Soon to come. Will come. Has to come. Please come. Listen to the ghosts. No. Not yet. (whispering) Not yet. Not yet. Listen. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4W6RjMg5Y
3.5 Is crying allowed? 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpWSt19XEy
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Notes for performers351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s2hmykybd
> When a / mark occurs, indicates that the next line of dialogue begins. 351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcC9yruVOJr
> While the four characters are somewhat familiar with each other, there should be no allusion to familial or relationship ties. They are a set of strangers, brought together by unknown circumstances.351Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1awm1Oqsq
> Love you forever B <3
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