The Last Two Members Of The Believable Beings Society
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THE LAST TWO MEMBERS OF THE BELIEVABLE BEINGS SOCIETY
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A 10-Minute Play
Characters
NINA: A woman in her early 20s.
COLE: A man in his early 20s.
Setting: A rustic log cabin atop the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. In the cabin, there is a closet and a fireplace with a shotgun hanging above it.
(The lights are dim, and a rustling is heard from the stage. NINA screams, and a door slams shut. COLE flips on the lights.)
Lights up
COLE
Where did it go?
NINA
The closet.
COLE
Could you see it?
NINA
Sort of. It was hard to tell. And with the blackout -
COLE
Do you think it was him?
NINA
Yah.. I think so.
COLE
Do you realize what this means?
NINA
Yes… We did it… we captured the yeti.
COLE
We captured the yeti!
The two hug and jump up and down and do and hand shake accompanied by the following cheer-
COLE & NINA
Better than scientist bored out of their mind
Beautiful creatures are what we find
Bests, monsters, and myths living quietly
Believable Beings Society
BBS.
COLE
Ok, ok hand me my camera.
NINA
Here.
COLE
Does my hair look ok?
NINA
Yah. What about mine?
COLE
You could stand to pat it down a little.
NINA
Ok, ok ready.
COLE
Alright, three two one (COLE turns on the camera). This is President COLE Smith and Vice President NINA Garza of the Believable Beings Society. We are on day 36-
NINA
37.
COLE
Day 37 of the journey, and have tracked the yeti down to Mount Elbrus, Russia. Now we believe we have it - him -
NINA
Or her.
COLE
Yes or her, locked behind this door.
COLE sets down the camera on a table in front of them, then backs up toward the door.
COLE
If we are correct, not only would we have living proof of the Yeti, but this could open the door to the existence of mythical beings everywhere.
COLE begins to open the door but hesitates
NINA
Go on, open it.
COLE
Just adding some dramatic tension.
NINA
Oh smart.
They wait a moment more, COLE, just stares at the door.
NINA
I think that's good
COLE
Yeah, that's good.
COLE still doesn’t open the door.
NINA
I’ll do it.
COLE
No!.... I mean, I’m just thinking it could be dangerous.
NINA
If you're so concerned about safet,y I’ll just grab the shotgun.
COLE
Oh, like you with the shotgun is that much safer.
NINA
Are you gonna open the door or not, COLE?
COLE
Just give me a minute.
NINA
You always do this.
COLE
Do what?
NINA
Lose your marbles when things get too real.
COLE
I do not.
NINA
Brazil, Junior year, you thought you saw a mermaid, you screamed, then ran off into the jungle. You had us worried sick.
COLE
You guys just overreacted.
NINA
We overreacted? COLE, it wasn't even a mermaid.
COLE
Well, a plastic bag shouldn’t have even been in the Amazon in the first place.
NINA
A great discussion for another time. Open the door.
COLE
I might be a bit of a freaker outer, but at least I don’t rush into things.
NINA
I do not.
COLE
Oh ho ho, need I remind you of Scotland?
NINA
Do you always need to bring up Scotland?
COLE
I don’t know NINA. It wasn’t me who scared off all sea life and possible Loch Ness monsters by jumping out of the boat before anyone had the chance to turn a camera on.
NINA
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: your camera should have already been on; there was no reason for you to dilly-dally.
COLE
No reason to dilly-dally? Katie was crying.
NINA
Tears of joy. Her research paper was published.
COLE
And we shouldn’t have congratulated her?
NINA
Not when we were in the middle of an adventure. No. I’m not having this argument again, just open the door.
(NINA lunges for the door.)
COLE
No
COLE does a starfish pose in an attempt to block her from opening it.
COLE
It could be dangerous.
NINA stomps her foot and turns to the fireplace where she grabs the shotgun from the wall and cocks it.
COLE
NINA, what are you doing?
NINA
You said it could be dangerous. I’m problem-solving.
COLE
This doesn’t feel much safer.
NINA
Things being dangerous have never bothered you before. Remember when we were looking for the kraken and there was that big storm?
COLE
And I still made everyone get on the boat. Yes. Fine, danger isn’t one of my major concerns, but guns are so just-
(NINA fires a shot into the door)
COLE
Whoa! You did not drag me to that anti-gun violence protest just to blow my face off in the middle of a temper tantrum.
NINA
I need to open this door. Move.
NINA fires another shot at the door. This time, COLE runs across the room
COLE
C’mon NINA, don’t do this
NINA
This is what we came here to do. We are finding the yeti.
COLE lifts his foot off the ground and tries to take his boot off. However, he struggles and ends up just hopping around on one foot, trying to take off his boot.
NINA
What are you doing?
COLE
I'm gonna throw my boot at the gun and knock it out of your hand.
NINA
COLE, you have never been able to throw.
COLE
Oh really? What do you call this?
With all his might, COLE tries once more to rip his boot off but ends up falling face first onto the floor.
COLE
(Without getting back up)
Fine! You win. Just open the door.
NINA walks to the door but hesitates. She rolls her entire body with irritation and walks over to COLE and helps him up.
COLE
Our Kraken expedition was Levi’s last adventure.
NINA
I remember.
COLE
After Scotland, Katie quit.
NINA
Katie wasn’t that much of a loss.
COLE
That's not true.
NINA
All she did was complain about how we were gonna get lost.
COLE
Okay, maybe you're right, but Jonah, now that was another problem.
NINA
I mean, yeah, he was the only one who knew how to work a compass.
COLE
But he was so disappointed that we couldn’t find dragons in Thailand, he refused to come to Australia.
NINA
Without him, we did get lost and spent an extra 2 weeks in the outback.
COLE
But we still couldn’t find Bigfoot.
NINA
In Australia, they call it the yowie.
COLE
Right.
NINA
So, can we open the door now?
COLE
I know about the job, NINA.
NINA
Oh.
COLE
Your cousin mentioned it to me. She figured I already knew.
NINA
Some of the people at her university think my past experience will help them find endangered frogs in Louisiana. I don’t want to take it.
COLE
Frogs are cool.
NINA
I don’t want to find frogs. We know those are real.
COLE
Then why would you take it?
NINA
I don’t know, I guess I just can't live off of ramen and Twinkies forever.
COLE
NINA, you love ramen and Twinkies.
NINA giggles but then pauses for a moment before answering.
NINA
After Katie’s research paper got published, she became one of the most respected scientists in her field.
COLE
So?
NINA
Then, after Levi left, he went on to be a big environmental lawyer and helped clean up that pond in Michigan.
COLE
I’m still not seeing your point.
NINA
I just need some sort of success. I grew up wanting to find the creatures I read about in my fairytales, but what if.. What if this is a dead end?
COLE
That's why you went berserk with the gun?
NINA
I just really need a win.
COLE
So if there isn’t a yeti behind the door, you're gone like everyone else.
NINA
If there is no yeti, I’ll take the job.
COLE cringes.
NINA
But that doesn’t mean this is our last adventure.
COLE
It sure sounds like it.
NINA
If there is something out there to find, we will find it, and if there's not, then we will sure as hell have a fabulous time looking. Be it the yeti today or something else years from now, when we both have different jobs but we ditched our families on Thanksgiving to go to wherever to find mermaids, or krakens, or God herself.
COLE
Pinky promise?
NINA
Of course.
The two wrap pinkies
COLE
And if we are skipping Holidays, let’s skip Christmas. I know Santa isn't there, but I do have a few theories of what else could be in the North Pole.
NINA
Christmas it is.
COLE
Alright, let's do this.
NINA
Together?
COLE
Together.
The two hold hands and start to open the closet door.
A small growl is heard off-stage. NINA and COLE come back out and slam the door. They look at each other for a moment, then do the last part of the handshake they did earlier while chanting-
NINA & COLE
BBS.
Lights out.
The End.
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