ÉANNA - a play in one act.

[Ibby]

I'm writing a play for the upcoming Paradox Plus student play production at school. The rules for paradox plus this time are that you have to keep the greek unities of time and place, so it has to be in real-time with one fixed set, and be under 15 minutes.

here's what I have so far:


the plot: Éanna lives alone, after having just been dumped and used by her ex, Hawk. Her brother Jay, who left for the city a long time ago, returns, and comforts her. Hawk shows up later, to try to weasel some more money outta Éanna. Jay confronts him, and there's a violent altercation. (it gets a little hazy for the next section...) Éanna, in a typically soap-opera fashion, hits Jay for beating up Hawk. She leaves with Hawk. Jay is left at her house, alone. He sits, frustrated, and waxes poetic in a monologue... until Éanna returns, crying and hurt. He nurses her back to a state resembling being okay again, and there's a tender brother-sister moment.
At this point, two men dressed as hunters enter from that door in the back of the theatre and slowly take up position with a good vantage of the action. Éanna and Jay look up in suspicion, comment on 'did you hear something?'

The lights go out. There's a shot, and heavy running footsteps. the lights come back up slowly, and a dead dove is lying on the stage where Éanna was sitting. the hunters go over.
"what'd you do that for?"
"I dunno, it was up there in the tree, I shot it"
"it's a dove, dude! an innocent dove, man, what'd you have to shoot it for?"
"Oh, come on, dude. It's a dove, its got a brain this big! it can't like, have a life or anything, come on. pass me a beer."