30-Day Prompt-Play Contest Winners

Jul 19, 20148 min read

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C-A-Harland

Published: Jul 19, 2014

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30-Day Prompt-Play Contest

-------WINNERS-------

Our affiliate, House-of-Playwrights' contest, the 30-Day Prompt-Play Challenge has now drawn to a close, and the winners have been announced.

Overall Script

First Place: SCFrankles
Knickerbocker GloryCHARACTERS
POLLIN (male office worker in late middle-age)
MASSONIA (female middle-aged office manager)
HABERLEA (male office manager in mid-30s)
STRELITZIA (female office worker in early 20s)
RUDBECK (female office worker in late 20s)
GALANTHUS (male office worker in early 30s)
ZINNIA (male office worker in early 20s)
JUNCUS (male office worker in early 30s)
YUCCA (female office worker in mid-30s)

SCENE 1

(Lights up. There are two desks facing each other centre stage—not parallel, making an inverted V from the audience’s POV. HABERLEA sits behind the desk on the right, and MASSONIA sits behind the desk on the left. Facing them, with his back to the audience, is POLLIN—making the base of the triangle. He’s sitting on a swivel chair so that he can easily turn and talk to each interviewer, and the audience will be able to see him side on. The colour of the walls and the furniture behind each desk are noticeably different&

MASSONIA
Could you tell me a little about yourself..? Why you think you would be suitable for the job..?

POLLIN
Well, I was born on Aspidistra Minor. Had my first office job there. Bit of filing, bit of hand-to-hand combat. From there I went to Anemone’s Moon, then to Gladiolus and to Nasturtium. After gaining a lot of basic experience I decided to train as a sharpshooter—“sniping and typing”, as we used to call it. But that sort of work’s a bit thin on the ground now, and anyway the companies prefer younger shooters. Er, that’s it. I’ve travelled around a lot looking for suitable work. Thought I’d give Earth a try.

Second Place: T-tothe-K
S.O.U.L.S.O.U.L.

Written by

Tris Kelsey

Jared Peltz: 19, lead, in prison for grand theft auto and manslaughter
Maya Strupp: 18, lead, in prison for first degree murder and assaulting a police officer
Lee Yung: 18, supporting, in prison for assault and second degree murder
Kim Schimidt: 17, supporting, in prison for arson and manslaughter
Mortem: supporting, Death

ACT 1
Scene 1

FADE IN:

EXT. PRISON GATES - DAY / NIGHT

(We see the outside of the prison through the gates. It pans from day until night with the guards changing shifts and occasionally a prisoner walking by with scattered vehicles entering and leaving throughout the passing of twelve hours as the credits roll through.)

JARED (V.O.)
You know, I never actually expected this. I guess I should have seeing as my hobbies included doing anything that was illegal, but I don’t know, man. It’s just not something you really

MORTEM
This is my deal. The ability to completely keep your past hidden and yet not have an orange jumpsuit hanging off your shoulders.

JARED
And what would the price be to have such a deal?

MORTEM
A simple one. Once you make this decision, you can never go back on it.

Third Place: GuinevereToGwen
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LENORE
I don't remember much from my childhood.

BLAKE
Memory only starts to develop at around age three, right?

LENORE
No, I mean after that. Every time I think of a time before I was about ten, my mind draws a blank. There's nothing.

Individual Scene

First Place: SCFrankles
Scene 1 of: Knickerbocker Glory
In this scene, SCFrankles creatively introduces us to the protagonist and foreshadows his moonlighting ways. It also reveals his unconventional life partner...

Second Place: GuinevereToGwen
Scene 5 of To Be A Dinglebody
In this scene, GuinevereToGwen shows the inevitable choices of the play's two leads, who strive between courage and cowardice in making new lives or retreading old patterns.

Third Place: LadyTana
Scene 2 of For the Betterment of Society
In this scene, LadyTana moves us at a quick clip through the investigation of a young woman's murder, leading up to the capture of a possible suspect.

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