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I SAW IT IN THE MIRROR…
Characters
Writer
Olivia
Jessica
Aunt Daeliah
Ophelia
Amelia
Voice 1
Voice 2
Russian philologist 1
Russian philiologist 2
A girl sitting on the table, with optic glasses in one hand, a book in the other, as if a smarty writer. A laptop on the table.
W: This story began…
Loud yawning from the first-desk girl. The Writer looks at her angrily.
W: THIS STORY…
Loud snoring from the same girl.
W (irritated): You mind if I finish?
G: Boooriiing!
W: ‘Scuse me?!
G: Do you really think you ca tell this story better than anyone?
W: Well…
G: It’s MY story and I’m gonna tell it MY angry self!
W (somewhat offended): Oh, I see… Fine! Go ahead! But don’t call me if you’re in trouble!
G: Don’t have to worry about that!
W (going towards the back seats, turns around sharply): Fine!
G (grins with satisfaction): Finally! Ok, as you have already understood, this is my story and my name is Olivia. Olivia Jessica Tyler. Friends call me Liv. 4 month ago I moved to NY for my studies. I’m gonna be a singer
(With ‘My name is…’ another table (with a laptop and some other stuff including wrapping paper, scissors, glue and smth else, placed so that everybody can see the paperpint) is brought to the stage, O continues not paying attention)
(Skype calling sound)
Oh! That’s mine!
(On stage smb comes holding a curtain, stands between the two tables, a girl comes and sits in front of the second table, opens the laptop2)
O (opens her laptop, makes a happy face): Hi!
(the girl freezes half the way to wave to the screen)
O: Oh, yes, this is Jessica, my sister from another mister.
(alive again)
J: Hi! How are you? I thought you caught that star disease! How was the audition?
O (makes a sad face): Oh, that…
J: What? Did I say smth wrong? Oh, no! I didn’t mean that!
O: Hope so… because… I GOT THE PART!!
J (breathes out): Huh. You’re a good actress, really!
O: Look! Freddie got me a gift for my first audition!
J: You mean, like, Freddie Freddie? Our Freddie?
O: Yup!
J: So, you, guys, are together now, right? I told you!!
O: Yeah, you diiid. Aaand… I’m comming home for Christmas!
J: That’s awesome!! Wait… THAT’S IN THREE DAYS???
O: Ahaa! (Voice calls O) Listen, I need to go, we’re selebating with guys from the dorm.
J: Ok, go. Say hi to girls! Bye! (Skype off)
(Lights off)
(ST _ Chris Rea – Driving Home For Christmas) (on stage come 2 girls (one wearing an apron cooking something, the other one – J – pushing clips with carton circles with ‘Xmas decor’ inscriptions against a “Xmas tree” paper)
(Lights on)
G1: Jess. (no reaction) Jess! (nothing) JESSICA LILLIAN ALDRIN!
J (pulls one earphone out of her ear): Somebody called me?
G1 (innocently): What made you think so?
J (shrugs): Ok (puts the earphone back)
G1: Oh, I shouldn’t have watched MTV so much when pregnant… You know, JIMMY KIMMEL CALLED IN AND SAID HE WANTED YOU IN HIS SHOW!
J (pulls the phones away, turnes around sharply): REALLY?
G1: (mumbles) Oh, sure, THAT you heard! (aloud, to G2) Is there any ice cream left in the fridge?
J: Dunno. I’ll check it up.
J goes towards the enterance, gasps, freezes; on hearing the gasp G1 turns around, freezes. O enters the stage
O: Home, finally! This is my family. Aunt Daeliah brought me up after the accident. And you already know Jessica, her daughter. She wants to be on TV.
(alive again; both D and J are puzzled for a second, D wipes her hands against the apron, goes to give O a hug, J still doesn’t get anything)
J: Wait! I just saw Liv! Right here! A moment ago!
D: We thought you would come tomorrow!
O: I decided to make a surprise.
J (turns around on hearing the voice, doesn’t understand how O managed to reach the middle of the roo so fast): How did you..? Whatever… How’s NY? Did you find somebody? Gosh, you tell me EVERYTHING!
O: You know what? I’d better show you everything!
J: You brought photos? Where’s your luggage, by the way?
O: Oh, that’s a very funny story!
J: Aha?
O: It’s somwhere between Brazil and Argentina now. Well, at least my bags will be there once.
J: Airport elves mixed the reindeer up, huh?))
O: Kinda.. So what do you say?
J: About what?
O: Come to NY with me?
J: I don’t… (turnes around) Mom?
D: You should go, honey!
J: Really?
D: Absolutely! Totally! Go!
J (to O): Is she pushing me away now?
D: How am I supposed to find you two a dad with you in here?
J: MOM! (all three laugh)
D: Whyy? I’m not that old! Ok, now, get out.
(lights off)
(ST _ Frank Sinatra – New York, New York)
(Table removed, sound of a train to NY departing in 15 minutes)
J:That’s ours! Hurry up!
O: Who knew that security would be THAT sticky.
J: Ouch! He’s kinda nuts, I guess. He said I was JUST like his witch grandma. Wierdo. Ok, here we go. Here’re our places. Have you seen my mirror?
O: Oh, here it is…
(train sound)
(ST _ California Dreaming)
J: Shouldn’t it be snowy here?
(lights on)
O: It should… Where the hell are we?
J: Wait a sec. The sign there sais ‘Beverly Hills’. Oh my God! We’re in LA!
O: I swear we took the right train!
J: But it brought us to the wrong place… or maybe not THAT wrong, hah?
O: I don’t understand…
(a girl with a clap comes up to them hurriedly)
Gc: Hello, girls. Are you here for ‘Magic mirror’ commercial auditions?
O: Um… You see…
J (interrupts): Yes, that’s us!
Gc: Thanks God! You’re actually the only girls who have come. Can you sing?
O: I can.
Gc: We don’t need it.
O: Wait, what?
J: Why did you ask, then?
Gc: To set up a conversation. Follow me.
(O and J shrug; Gc makes a couple of steps, then turnes around and stops)
J: She’s weird.
Gc: Oh, really? And who got to LA after taking a train to NY?
J: Waaait a second! How come YOU know about that?
Gc: (grins) How come… I did it!
O: Did what?
Gc: I’m Catherine the Great. Nice to meet you, by the way.
J: Catherine the Great? Seriously? Isn’t that, like, a European queen or something like that?
Gc: So what? Amelia Sweetchuck doesn’t sound scary.
O: Are you another ex-superhero or something of the kind?
Gc: THERE ARE NO EX-SUPERHEROES!
J: Yeah. You were right.
Gc: Superheroes can die, but not retire! Anyway. People are such liars. From now on you two will travel all the way together! From mirror to mirror.
(scary laugh)
(Gc claps hands - lights off – Gc disappears – lights on)
J: Told ya she’s a freak.
O: What are we gonna do?
J: Are you kidding? We can travel wherever we want!
Gc(comes back): Oh, I’ve forgotten. The destination is always random. (Claps hands – no reaction – claps again – nothing.) I’ll fire that effect-director.
O: Ok, let’s try…
(Takes up a mirror from her purse, looks there. Lights off. A table with a cloth and a sheet of paper on it brought to the stage)
(ST _ Christina Aguilera – Reflection (live + instrumental))
(Lights on)
J (gettingg up from under the table): Who left this mirror here? I hate that empty head!
O: That was unexpected.
J: Look! What’s this?
(Takes the paper, a voice reads from backstage)
Hello, ye who read this!
This is the start of your scavenger hunt. But before you leave the place, I’ll tell you a little bit of a story.
My sister turned out to be a witch. Don’t ask, I don’t know how, but I certainly don’t remember her going to Hogwarts. Anyway, sha fell in love with my fiancee. When she found out of proposal, she got just mad and placed me here, in a broken mirror. I can’t get out until somebody finds the last piece of it. It may be in any of the places on the list. Please, release me!
Sincerely yours,
Ophelia
P.S. Control your destination by thinking about the place.
P.P.S. Good luck!
J: Ophelia and Amelia? Really?
O: Looks like their parents liked the ‘Three Wisemen of Gotham’ tale.
J: Ok, let’s get it started. I don’t really want to spend Christmas somewhere between I-don’t-know-where and I-don’t-wanna-be-where.
O: Ok. What’s first on the list?
J (takes her mirror and the list): Oh, look, Liv! It says NY!
(lights off)
(ST _ MUD – Tiger Feet (lowened for the next two dialogs))
(lights on)
J: Who knew that NY was a pub in Oclahoma.
O: And judging on how many people are here, its about 7 a.m.
J: So… Do you see anything that could be a broken glass piece?
O: Nope.
J: Neither do I. Next.
(lights off/on)
O: Oh, that’s our favourite Starbuck’s!
J: This was not on the list!
O: Oh, sorry. I must have been thinking about it to much recently.
(Lights off/on)
J: What’s tis? A library?
O: Looks like one. There are newspapers. Daily Saberhagen for 1934.
J: Look! Here’s a note.
Ophelia Sweetchuck missing
The 21-year-old girl was last seen by her twin-sister in the evening, December, 23. It is the third case of young girls in early 20s missing, bodies not found. What’s that – a coincidence or a succession? Is America facing another maniac?
O: Where are the rest girls?
J (surfs through papers): The other two were found later. They remembered only a flash and a figure coming from the light and then – nothing. (ST _ X-files) (J smiles) Sounds familiar?))
O: Oh, then, we saw an alien? Awesome!))
J: I think, we’re done here. Let’s go to… Hendrix Bar
(lights off/on)
(ST _ Jimmy Hendrix – Jonny B. Goode)
(light off/on; at a table sit two people with a bottle of vodka and two glasses speak with terrible Russian accent about some stuff like Kafka, Sartre, Existance and rotacism in the germanic languages, as the girls reach them, they start speaking louder)
J: Who knew there were soo many Jimmy Hendrix bars in the country
O: Ok, where are we now?
J: Looks like some kind of flat. Maybe, somwhere in Russia?
O: Why are they speaking English?
J: (ironically) You call it English? Let’s ask them. (they come by) ‘Scuse me. Where are we?
Ph1: Ин Рраша.
O: Why do you speak English, then?
Ph2: Уы ар филолоджыстс, дон’т ю си?
J: Have you ever been to America?
Ph1: Окстись! Ай мин, ноу.
O: I think, we’re just wasting our time. Let’s go.
J: Wait, what’s this? (turns to Phs) Whose photo is this?
Ph2: Зыс из аур пэн-фрэнд фром Кан’ада. Хи сент зыс фото фоти йирз эго.
J: Look! It’s got an address on the back. Let’s go. (grabs O’s hand)
O (turning round, smiling): Thank you very much!
(Lights off. Ph1: Уот воз зэт? Ph2: Уи шудн’т хэв рэд соу мач Гёте) (ST _ Kalinka Malinka)
O: Where are we going now?
J: To the house of that guy from the photo. I saw him in those newspapers, he was Ophelia’s boyfriend.
O: We’re at the place.
(Lights on; a curtain on the stage, chairs and a table, also covered in curtains)
(O and L are vividly seen through the curtain but they can’t get in)
J: What the heck is this?
O: Hey, what happened?!
J: Anybody there?
O: Hey! Writer! Author! Whatever you are! Are you there?
J: Who are you talking with?
O: It’s a long story, but (s)he undersood me.
W: Nope. Not doing this! I warned you!
Voice1 (behind the scenes): Did you hear that?
Voice2: What?
V1: Smb was talking in this room.
V2: Come on! Nobody has entered there for the last 13 years.
J: Hey there! Heeeelp!
V1: Here! Again!
V2: That’s impossible.
(V1 and V2 enter the stage)
J: Heeelp!
V2: Who are you?
V1: Where are you?
O: We’re here, in the mirror!
(Both come by the curtain, pull it away, O and J fall in)
J: Wow! That was tough.
V1: What are you doing in this room?
O: Why is it so dusty?
V2: That’s our grandfather’s room. He passed away 13 years ago.
J: Do you remember, was there anything strange in his heritage or his will?
V2: Like what?
V1: Yes, actually. In his testamony he asked to leave this room untouched after his death. And there was also smth about a casket.
O: What casket?
V2: We never found it. Actually, we never looked for it, why?
J: Do you know how it looks like?
V1: Smth like… this, I think. (points at a casket on the table)
O: You mean, this one? Can we open it?
V2: What’s there? Plague?
O: I hope, no. (Opens the box) Hey, Jess! Check this out! I think we just found it!
J: Finally!
(ST _ Queen – We Are The Champions)
(Lights off/on)
O: Ophelia! We found it!
Oph: Put it back, please!
(both girls go off-stage, come back with Oph)
(ST _ Nobody.one – Deadman)
(Gc comes on stage, dressed in smth like a Snow Queen, with a wand)
Gc: Not so fast, ladies! Now it’s over, Ophelia.
J: Can I ask a question?
Gc: No!!
J: Well, I should’ve tried…
(ST _ Christina Aguilera – Fighter (Live + instrumental))
Gc: Thank me? YOU WANT TO THANK ME?! I can’t breathe. (Suffocates, everybody runs up to her, O brings some water)
CLOCK BEATING SOMEWHERE, CHEERING AND CONGRATULATIONS
(ST _ Jingle Bell Rock (classics rocks =) )
Gc (somewhat surprised and a little zombyish): That’s my first Christmas with the family for the last… maaaany years…
O (disappointed): But not ours…
Oph: You’re from Alabama, right? We’re in the previous time-zone now. You’ve got a whole ho… 57 minutes!
Gc: Use your mirrors for one last time. Go! There are only 27 minutes left.
O: Left for what?
Gc: The travelling thing works for 24 hrs sharp.
O: What are we waiting for, then?
J: Wait! So we would’ve escaped anyway?
Gc: 22 minutes!!!
J: Ok, let’s go.
O: Jess, I’m gonna drop to one place…
J: Oh, I see! See you at home!
Gc: Oh, We were just like them…
(Lights off/on; decorations of stage 2: Xmas tree and D)
J: Hi, mom!
D: You’re back! So soon? Where’s Liv?
J: Where’s my brand-new daddy?)) She went to Freddie.
D (looks at their hands, then at J): Is this a prank?
J: Nope. It’s just the way it should be.
(O comes on, everybody hug) (Finale song)
(ST _ Billy Mack – Christmas Is All Around)
THE END