Theatre – Alysse Aallyn

Caving: a comedy

The End! (SCENE 8. Lights up on our sleeping couple. BO and VAYRE emerge from the other side of the stage.) BOThere they are!(HEDJ sits up but does not rise) HEDJFinally! BOYeah, I see how hard you were looking for us! HEDJBuddy, I got swept away by a RIVER of SLIME! What’s your excuse? REV(Opening…
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Caving: a comedy

(SCENE 7: Lights out on them and up on BO who has made it to the stage where he finds the rope tied to a rock.) BOVayre? Vayre? Oh, my God, Wendy where are you? (He falls backwards. She appears around the rock adjusting her pants.) VAYRENo need to shriek like a little girl. BOYou…
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Caving: a comedy

SCENE 5: Bo Tries to reach over an audience member – pulls 3 times on his rope – whose end disappears into darkness.) BO(To audience member)Work with me here. You got anything? I have to take her SOMETHING. (Audience members confer. The hand him a program. Putting it in his mouth like a dog BO…
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Caving: a comedy

SCENE 4: (Lights down on this couple and up on Back of Stage where HEDJ is splashing in a stream) HEDJHelp! Help! Help! (REV appears, tries to lasso him) REVStop struggling! HEDJStop struggling and DROWN? That’s all you’ve got to say? Lift up your arms! (Finally gets the rope over him, hauls him out. He…
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Caving: a comedy

(SCENE 3: VAYRE appears crawling down the stage into the audience. Shines her light) VAYREWhat was that? Anybody there? Rev? This isn’t funny, whoever you are! I’m warning you, I have a knife! (Silence) I’m armed and I’m desperate! (Satisfied, she crawls to the first row, up and over the audience’s laps. At their reaction…
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Caving: a comedy

(SCENE 2: Meanwhile the boys, HEDJ and BO are crawling down the center aisle shining their flashlights up into the audience) HEDJ(Halts, attentive)Omigod, I think I just saw something. I swear I heard somebody breathe. BOThere’s no room in this tunnel for anyone but US. Bacteria and bugs on the other hand – probably PLENTY…
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Caving: a comedy

In this comedy, the theatre becomes a cave as 2 college frat boys (HEDJ & BO) & 2 Sorority girls (REV & VAYRE) become trapped while spelunking on a dare. Unsettled friendships and a longing for connection have driven them to risk the cell-phone-free dangers of this place. All four long for emotional and sexual…
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