SCRATCHER TICKET BY JEFFREY LO (DOWNLOAD PDF HERE)
ERWIN, a Filipino-American man in his 60’s, in front of a table and chair.
ERWIN looks around himself.
ERWIN looks to the sky.
ERWIN takes in his surroundings.
ERWIN: What am I doing here? What do you want from me? Is it supposed to be my time now? Well if you’re telling me it’s my fucking time, I’m telling you you’re fucking wrong. You got that? So you, or whoever is here, or whoever you are, can just fuck off and put me back where I belong.
Silence.
ERWIN: DO YOU HEAR ME! YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME! I WILL NOT GO!
Silence.
ERWIN spits on the floor.
ERWIN: I don’t belong here!
ERWIN turns and see the table and chair behind him.
He slides the chair back with force and sits on it.
Silence.
Then, RYAN enters.
Upon RYAN’s entrance, ERWIN jumps up.
ERWIN: Ryan?
RYAN: Yeah.
ERWIN: What are you doing here?
RYAN walks up to ERWIN and hands him 10 scratcher tickets.
RYAN: Here.
ERWIN: What is this?
RYAN: What does it look like?
ERWIN: What am I supposed to do with these?
RYAN: Umm… scratch them?
ERWIN: Why are you here?
RYAN: I don’t know, Dad. Because for whatever reason, I’m always there?
RYAN moves to a corner and sits.
RYAN: There’s ten of them.
ERWIN looks at RYAN.
ERWIN looks at the scratcher tickets.
ERWIN looks up.
ERWIN: Watch me win.
RYAN shakes his head.
ERWIN scratches one ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
ERWIN scratches another ticket – loss.
Silence.
RYAN looks at ERWIN.
ERWIN looks at RYAN.
ERWIN holds his final scratcher ticket.
Pause.
Pause.
Pause.
ERWIN puts it in his pocket.
Blackout.
END OF PLAY.