Note for reader: Along with the many scraps of details, horror prose and poetry left behind in my mother's box, there are a few plays. As long as I knew her, she never expressed any sort of intense love of theatre so I don't understand why she would create these. Then again, I never knew anything about the 'Beatrice Record' (and still am no closer to understanding why it's called that). Here is one such play. It has the title "Probably for the Best" Viewer discretion: there's a lot of swears29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVfzaDghyd
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Probably for the Best29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZpKCvFN8T
Characters: 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwlMlRUeLP
4 (Eve), 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWyhXiaGs0
3.5 (Adam), 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuGFDdwHgm
1a (Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh), 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nGubaiAxi
1b (Hallelujah), 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6bc3DjlI5
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Time and Place:29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApVl7dfM31
Many years into the future. A shelter or room deep underground. Dimly-lit enclosed space. All characters sit on floor despite two benches upstage center. Light from phone screens must be able to illuminate faces. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeU9piqxunT
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SCENE ONE 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnmqnCUPM9
Dim fluorescent lights illuminate a shelter. There are two dirty benches upstage center, which remain empty, but for an old rotary telephone – between 1b and 1a. Also, a window with only darkness outside it. Four people sit huddled around on the floor. From left to right, there is 3.5, 4, 1b and 1a. The numbers correspond to the person’s rank, but also their title. All are dressed in combat boots and dark, stained overalls. Messy hair, especially 1a and 1b, whose mannerisms and actions are like young children. All are engrossed in their phone screen, except 4, who stares straight out. 3.5 also sometimes breaks their gaze away from the screen to stare at 4. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt40DM7mx4k
For a moment all simply sit in this space, before 4 starts to speak. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxCRw8lZS8
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4 Listen to the ghosts. Listen for the Word. Listen. No. Don’t stop speaking yet. You think you’re high and mighty now that you’re above them, pissfuck? Excuse me.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYifpBvMXu
Music* Begins. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4U9wu9bjlS
3.5 I’m right here if you want to fight me, you pathetic fuckcupboard-head. Say it to my face. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJOJ4COK67
4 I can’t look at you. I won’t think about the violent acts I want to enlist on you. Excuse me. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdGwjUiy5a
3.5 Through all of these endless tribulations, I’m glad it’s ending. There! I said it. I said it because it’s true. You’d say the same if you had balls! Fuck-cunt! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AjimKiyIn
4 Excuse her. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1AKtERf7H
3.5 What are we waiting for? Let’s end it now! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqySv8GSFF
1b We’re waiting for the Word! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWE9BIoviF
1a Woohoo! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIN5oXG1TV5
Pause. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQX4psJ2YK
4 Oh, someone fill the fucking silence! Excuse me. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioyoQxGopp
1a Excuse me? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0FSoJqgJe
3.5 What would you have us do, pissbitch? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWiRReKRNY
4 Our time is precious. So, fill-fucking-fill it! Excuse me. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqJ6v7wBTb
1a (as if they’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to speak) Well, I would like to take this moment to say that I have enjoyed every moment of our time here, and through and through, all of the days and years and how long, the black days, the fighting nights, all of the on-and-ons – all of it. So, yeah. / Thanks guys. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZC96eL3Zr
4 (to 3.5) I’ve been thinking it over in my head. Excuse me. Thinking over each and every way I could break your neck and get away with it unseen, so to speak, excuse me! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaGsWDLlJP
3.5 I’m right here, whorehouse. I wish you’d done it before you went and betrayed me. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusWUs4lYRE
4 I never / betrayed you. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxs7ofsodGr
1b And so, we wait. Not a word, nor the Word. From outside. I miss the sun. It’s been some time now since it was visible. I miss the rain. Even the burning one. I miss it all. Now just a memory, and even that ... I think I can hear a ghost ... 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDRKtRRvTd
Pause. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ55osWATfC0
4 Fill the space!29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3oB25Q1Ij
3.5 You betrayed me. You betrayed me. / And now you blame me? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAWHKCrDxx
4 Fucker, I never betrayed you (excuse me), I ‘teached’ to you, and you listened, gaping and glistening for all of the wisdom in the world. Let us pray! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUG5ymVxDWL
1a (innocently) Who will we pray to today?29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDPP5iY118r
1b I thought that I saw an illusion in the blackness. I think it was my dashing husband. Can we pray to that?29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmjQFetRm8
1a Can we pray to that?
3.5 Can we? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCa7O1txBq0
4 Can we what? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmeN9FYC8W
3.5 Pray to his- / sorry, her illusion? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWfjjcQ42E
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4 You ridiculous fucking children! Excuse me. No, you cannot pray to that, you won’t have arses when I’m done lashing you. Now. Pray! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZB5mXuhpJ
Pause. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOipS8hDnt
Mumbling prayers. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdC2rbqSH09
Not quite. Fill the space! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOpQaoxwqm
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Rest of party unsure whether they should continue praying or speak. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIgYU7gZ3q
1a I heard a ghost! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGudmls3HIg
4 (frightened) What did it say? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorpdWWArWd
1b I hear it too. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetB41jQ122
4 What is it saying? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WPyE09ZxN
1a Just... 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJwrTNg59f
1b Whispering. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBllrzTrPxW
4 (to 3.5) What do you hear? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLaZcwXwI6
3.5 An annoying fuck-sucker running their mouth fucking dry. I doubt any of this carry on is even worth it. What when the time comes, will we really draw this moment back? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMrfHUDdNR
4 Wait for the Word. It will not be the last-29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2NHEjbhi3
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SCENE TWO29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtOHuoYER1
Suddenly, the overhead lights shut off. All are plunged into fear and darkness. 1a and 1b open their eyes wide, taking a heaving inhale, staring at something unseen in wonderment for a moment, collapsing into limp piles. They do not move from this point on. 4 stands up. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02sXJVA89v
4 What happened? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmu9NuHtlAp
3.5 (realisation setting in) The Word... 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj9pTK58rkV
4 That wasn’t the fucking Word, did that sound like a fucking Word to you? Excuse me. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FyoUYpMKi
3.5 There can be no Other. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuoJnfyApk
4 (calling up) Hey! You forgot us. Forgot me. I’m still here. You forgot about me. I have a reservation! / Come back for me! 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPC1mkZzjA
3.5 Would you shut up? No-one's coming to rescue us. There will be no others. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuteLAKGG7
4 Have some fucking faith. (cradles telephone) It will come. Must come. Soon to come. Will come. Has to come. Please come. Listen to the ghosts. No. Not yet. (whispering) Not yet. Not yet. Listen. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbRj4J8HqQ
3.5 Is crying allowed? 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhZVPx8fxv
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Notes for performers29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHT0Wb7dl6c
> When a / mark occurs, indicates that the next line of dialogue begins. 29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LASDTNLsh
> While the four characters are somewhat familiar with each other, there should be no allusion to familial or relationship ties. They are a set of strangers, brought together by unknown circumstances.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE39S0mFjQI
> Love you forever B <3
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