Lodestar Quarterly

Issue 19 • Fall 2006 • Featured Writer • Drama

syzygy

Michael Griffo

Scene 4

The past. ALEX and BOBBY appear in a spotlight center stage. They are about ten years old talking to an unseen person. Again, they don't act like young boys; they only embody their emotional life.

ALEX

Who's the biggest ugly in the fourth grade? Ugly Dougly, that's who! And I'm warning you, Dougly, if ya don't shut up I'll throw a rock at you, right at your big ...

BOBBY

Alex!

ALEX

Fat ...

BOBBY

Don't!

ALEX

Ugly Dugly face! And then kick you, and take my black magic marker and draw on your dungarees!

BOBBY

You don't have to do this.

ALEX

Yes I do. (TO DOUGIE) Bobby is not a sissy. He's smart. Smarter than you ... smarter than all of us. I'm warning you, Dougie. Don't you say another word!

BOBBY

Alex!

ALEX
(ALEX THROWS A PUNCH.)

Now who's crying like a sissy?!

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Michael Griffo's plays include No More Sundays, winner of the New Jersey Perry Award, and Two/Pieces. His ten-minute plays include "Cloudy" and "5G/10B," both to be published in winter 2007 in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2005 (Smith & Kraus). Mr. Griffo graduated from New York University and studied at Playwrights Horizons and Gotham Writers Workshop. He is represented by ICM (bthomas@icmtalent.com) for theatre and The Evan Marshall Agency (evanmarshall@thenovelist.com) for literature. Contact Michael at michaelgriffo@hotmail.com.

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