LAURA PART 1 BY JEFFREY LO (DOWNLOAD PDF HERE)
LAURA, JEFFREY and a typewriter.
JEFFREY: Laura.
LAURA: Yes?
JEFFREY: What should I write about?
LAURA: What?
JEFFREY: What should I write about?
LAURA: What should you write about?
JEFFREY: Yes.
LAURA: You never ask me what you should write about.
JEFFREY: Well I’m asking you today.
LAURA (Smiling): Ok.
JEFFREY: Ok.
LAURA thinks.
LAURA: Write about me.
JEFFREY: About you?
LAURA: About us.
JEFFREY: Are you sure?
LAURA: Is that a dumb idea?
JEFFREY: Never.
LAURA: So you’ll do it?
JEFFREY: Sure… But…
LAURA: What?
JEFFREY: What about us?
LAURA: What about us?
JEFFREY: I could write about how we first met.
LAURA: Or how we first fell in love.
JEFFREY (Joking): Those aren’t the same story?
LAURA: No!
JEFFREY Oh well I must’ve misunderstood…
LAURA playfully nudges JEFFREY.
JEFFREY: I can write about that time I met your parents for the first time.
LAURA: Or the time I met your parents!
JEFFREY: And they tried to make you eat all that Filipino food.
LAURA: They loved to test the white girl…
They smile at each other.
They hold each other.
JEFFREY: I can write about the first time we held each other.
They kiss.
LAURA: You can write about the first time we kissed.
JEFFREY pulls LAURA closer.
JEFFREY: I can write about the first time we –
LAURA: NO! You will not put that on stage…
JEFFREY: I can just change the names –
LAURA: STOP.
They laugh.
They happily look at each other.
Beat.
JEFFREY: Ok.
LAURA: What?
JEFFREY sits at the typewriter.
JEFFREY: Ok.
JEFFREY begins typing.
END OF PLAY.