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AISEN Drama Competition Play
AISEN Drama Competition Play
AISEN Drama Competition Play
They later begin to argue about how to distribute the property and
wealth in the family as none of the parents were able to create a will. At
the end, a lawyer meets them and informs them that all the money has
been put into a trust fund in the name of their butler.
THE BUTLER
CAST:
ANNE
BEATRICE
CATHELINE
DAKOTA
LAWYER
SCENE 1:
DAKOTA, BEATRICE, and CATHELINE all sit in a semi-circular
arrangement, pretending to be sad and mournful. Enter ANNE.
ANNE: That’s not fair. I only couldn’t because I had to keep flying
around for work.
BEATRICE: But you never thought to fly around to your home
country, now, did you? (Smiles blithely)
ANNE: Beatrice, I am trying so hard not to call you Bellatrix right
now, it was not my fault. My job requires me to fly around.
CATHELINE: Then why didn’t you just pick a normal job?
DAKOTA: One where you wouldn’t have fly about and could be with
us. Your family?
ANNE: (Shocked) Do all of you feel this way? Like I left you?
DAKOT: Kind of, yeah.
ANNE: I-I-I never tried to make you feel that way-
BEATRICE: That’s the issue, Anne. You never even try anymore.
ANNE: I’m sorry.
DAKOTA: It’s cool. We can’t do anything about it now.
BEATRICE: Yes, we can. Give us majority of the assets. Think of it as a
compensation or something.
CATHELINE: Bee. That’s not fair.
DAKOTA: Catheline’s right. If we break it up unevenly, then we won’t
be able to live like a normal family, regardless of the fact that we’ve
never actually had a normal family.
BEATRICE: I DESERVE MORE THAN ALL OF YOU!
ANNE: Beatrice! Calm down!
BEATRICE: (Throws water on ANNE’S face) I have worked hard
(climbs on chair) I have worked harder than all of you. I deserve
more money than any of you have ever seen!
DAKOTA: Be-
(Enter Lawyer)
LAWYER: Am I interrupting?
ANNE: No. You’re preventing mass murder. Please, sit down, Ma’am.
BEATRICE: (gets down from chair) Hello.
LAWYER: I’m truly sorry for the demise of your parents. Alice and
Devon were wonderful clients.
ANNE, BEATRICE, CATHELINE, DAKOTA: (all nod mournfully)
DAKOTA: Would you like some tea?
BEATRICE: What is it with you and tea?
DAKOTA: It’s a beverage and I think it calms down the environment.
Especially when someone rages and steps up on chairs.
BEATRICE: (stage whispers to DAKOTA) Mind your tongue young one.
I could throw you off the balcony with the flick of a finger and drink
up all your money just like your dear tea.
DAKOTA: So, tea? (Exit stage)
LAWYER: About the money. I met your mum a few weeks before her
death. She told me that she’s left all the money in a trust fund and all
the money has been put under the name of (looks at paper)
Mr.Henry. Is that a cousin that I am unaware of?
BEATRICE: No. We have no other family than us. Who’s Henry?
CATHELINE: (shocked) That’s our butler.
BEATRICE: WHAT?!
DAKOTA: (enters hurriedly) WHAT?!
BEATRICE: All our money. Gone to a butler. A BLOODY BUTLER!
(Grabs LAWYER by collar) Listen you, change that will. Put our
names. We won’t tell the police, I promise! We need that money. I
need that money!
ANNE: (separates BEATRICE and LAWYER.) Ma’am I am truly very
sorry for Beatrice’s behaviour, she seems quite frazzled from the
deaths. Now, please, let’s be serious. Who actually got the money?
LAWYER: Mr. Henry.
ANNE: Bee, NOW!
BEATRICE: (pulls out dagger from shoe and stabs LAWYER)
LAWYER: (falls)
FREEZE FRAME
END