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Can I Sleep For A Hundred Years?
Jan. 9th, 2014 12:42 pmOn Facebook, I put out a call for play titles. Here, I create plays.
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Can I Sleep For A Hundred Years?
(A busy coffee shop - probably part of a chain. Most of the tables are taken up by men with beards sitting by themselves with their laptops but with no coffee. Customers with drinks stand around like vultures giving them dirty "why don't you just die so I can swoop in and take your table" looks. Finally, one of the neckbeards stands up. SUSAN and EILEEN immediately sweep in and take his table.)
Susan: I'm serious, just like Rip Van Winkle.
Eileen: He was a fictional character.
Susan: There are lots of things that were fictional once that are reality now. Look at Star Trek.
Eileen: I am not entering a debate about food replicators with you.
Susan: We have 3d printers. Its just a matter of time.
(ELIEEN glares at her and blows on her coffee)
Susan: When it becomes possible, I'm going to do it. It will be like time travel. One moment, you shut your eyes and its 2014 and when you open them its 2114 and you haven't noticeably aged except for maybe your hair and nails and stuff. Like when you fly from New York to L.A. You shut your eyes when the plane takes off and when you wake up, you're in L.A. and you missed the whole flight.
Eileen: Everyone you love will have died.
Susan: Not if they sleep too.
Eileen: All right, you'll miss all of your favorite shows.
Susan: Come on, with the Internet now I can watch anything I want and things will be even more advanced then. I can probably have every season of Dr. Who downloaded directly into my brain by then.
Eileen: What if the world ends.
Susan: So? I die in my sleep. I'll never know.
Eileen: Money.
Susan: Please, time travel 101. Invest properly and I'll be super wealthy in 100 years.
Eileen: We could make a business that invests people's money for them while they're asleep so that they have even more money when they wake up.
Susan: Exactly!
Eileen: But so much will have changed. Language will be different, culture, norms, traditions. Everything. We won't fit in anymore.
Susan: We don't fit in now.
Eileen: True.
(They drink their coffee)
Eileen: We'd probably need to quit coffee for a few weeks before we agreed to the procedure. It keeps us both up.
(They both look anxiously at their coffee cups)
Susan: You know, I don't think I'd like living in the future anyways. I am comfortable here in the past.
Eileen: I'm going to get a refill.
Susan: Can you get one for me? I'll hold the table.
(blackout)
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Can I Sleep For A Hundred Years?
(A busy coffee shop - probably part of a chain. Most of the tables are taken up by men with beards sitting by themselves with their laptops but with no coffee. Customers with drinks stand around like vultures giving them dirty "why don't you just die so I can swoop in and take your table" looks. Finally, one of the neckbeards stands up. SUSAN and EILEEN immediately sweep in and take his table.)
Susan: I'm serious, just like Rip Van Winkle.
Eileen: He was a fictional character.
Susan: There are lots of things that were fictional once that are reality now. Look at Star Trek.
Eileen: I am not entering a debate about food replicators with you.
Susan: We have 3d printers. Its just a matter of time.
(ELIEEN glares at her and blows on her coffee)
Susan: When it becomes possible, I'm going to do it. It will be like time travel. One moment, you shut your eyes and its 2014 and when you open them its 2114 and you haven't noticeably aged except for maybe your hair and nails and stuff. Like when you fly from New York to L.A. You shut your eyes when the plane takes off and when you wake up, you're in L.A. and you missed the whole flight.
Eileen: Everyone you love will have died.
Susan: Not if they sleep too.
Eileen: All right, you'll miss all of your favorite shows.
Susan: Come on, with the Internet now I can watch anything I want and things will be even more advanced then. I can probably have every season of Dr. Who downloaded directly into my brain by then.
Eileen: What if the world ends.
Susan: So? I die in my sleep. I'll never know.
Eileen: Money.
Susan: Please, time travel 101. Invest properly and I'll be super wealthy in 100 years.
Eileen: We could make a business that invests people's money for them while they're asleep so that they have even more money when they wake up.
Susan: Exactly!
Eileen: But so much will have changed. Language will be different, culture, norms, traditions. Everything. We won't fit in anymore.
Susan: We don't fit in now.
Eileen: True.
(They drink their coffee)
Eileen: We'd probably need to quit coffee for a few weeks before we agreed to the procedure. It keeps us both up.
(They both look anxiously at their coffee cups)
Susan: You know, I don't think I'd like living in the future anyways. I am comfortable here in the past.
Eileen: I'm going to get a refill.
Susan: Can you get one for me? I'll hold the table.
(blackout)
