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- FACADE STAGEPLAY
- Tue Jul 31 20 33 44 2012
- GRACE
- Trip, when are you going to get rid of this?
- TRIP
- What, Grace... this?
- GRACE
- Yes, you know how I feel about it -- -- (interrupted)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- TRIP
- I know I know I'll do -- (interrupted)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- TRIP
- Uhp, he's here!
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- GRACE
- What?! You told me it'd be an hour from now!
- TRIP
- No, he's supposed to be here now!
- GRACE
- God... Trip!
- (Trip opens the front door.)
- (Matt knocks on the front door.)
- TRIP
- Matt!!
- MATT
- WE NEED BEER
- TRIP
- Ah I'm so happy you could make it! -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- TRIP
- TRIP
- Uh...
- TRIP
- Well come on in...
- MATT
- GET BEER
- TRIP
- Uh, it'll be just a sec while I go get Grace...
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT closes the front door.)
- TRIP
- (unintelligable arguing)
- TRIP
- (unintelligable arguing)
- TRIP
- (unintelligable arguing)
- GRACE
- Matt,
- MATT
- WE ALL KNOW WHY I'M HERE.
- GRACE
- Hi! How are you? God it's been a while! -- (interrupted)
- GRACE
- Oh, ha ha ha!
- GRACE
- By the way, you look wonderful!
- GRACE
- Well, come on in, make yourself at home!
- MATT
- I SAW THE NEWSPAPER ADVERT
- GRACE
- Yeah, I'm hoping you can help me understand where I went wrong with my new decorating, -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- WHEN DOES IT BEGIN
- TRIP
- Well wait a minute! I don't think you've taken a close look yet. Let it soak in a little!
- GRACE
- So, about my decorating... -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- BEER
- TRIP
- Oh, yeah, I'm gonna fix us some drinks in a sec!
- TRIP
- Ah, you need to help me break in my expensive new set of cocktail making accessories. -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- TRIP, BEER
- TRIP
- Yeah, hang on, ooh, I'm going to make you one of my fabulous drinks in just a minute!
- GRACE
- Uhh, Matt, try not to encourage him. -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- NO, BEER
- GRACE
- You don't agree...
- GRACE
- (little sigh) So about this wedding picture here...
- GRACE
- it obviously just does not go anymore... I mean, with my new decorating and all.
- TRIP
- Oh, Grace...
- TRIP
- (little impatient sigh)
- MATT
- We need to loosen up
- TRIP
- See, Grace, no one has a problem with your decorating, it's fine!
- GRACE
- Well, I plan to return most of this anyhow. This room needs to be redone.
- TRIP
- (little sigh)
- TRIP
- So! Drinks!
- TRIP
- How about a martini?
- TRIP
- I'm a real expert -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- Here, I have some of the good stuf
- TRIP
- Beautiful!
- GRACE
- No no,
- GRACE
- Matt, maybe you'd like some juice, or a mineral water?
- TRIP
- Oh come on...
- MATT
- Well I just had a coffee
- TRIP
- You know what why I don't I just open a bottle of merlot and make it easy.
- GRACE
- Yes, sometimes a simple glass of wine is better than those fancy drinks you always insist on making.
- TRIP
- Grace, I assume you want your usual... 'a lovely, very cold glass of Chardonnay'.
- GRACE
- The merlot sounds fine.
- TRIP
- Oh! Uh... Okay.
- MATT
- MERLOT
- TRIP
- Oh, Matt, take a look at -- (interrupted)
- PHONE
- ** RING **
- TRIP
- Oh, I'll get it --
- GRACE
- No, no, we have a guest, we can let the answering machine pick it up.
- PHONE
- ** RING **
- MATT
- HOLY SHIT
- GRACE
- What? Oh, God, can we just -- let's just wait for the answering machine...!
- PHONE
- ** RING **
- (MATT picks up the phone.)
- PHONE
- Grace? Hello?
- GRACE
- Matt, no! Please don't do that.
- MATT
- hello
- PHONE
- Who is this? Grace is that you?
- GRACE
- Uhh, it's my dad, I can hear his voice.
- PHONE
- I don't recognize your voice...
- TRIP
- Oh!
- PHONE
- Excuse me, I must have the wrong number... ** click **
- GRACE
- Okay, he's being annoying, as usual... just -- just hang it up.
- (MATT puts down the phone.)
- GRACE
- Oh, good, you hung up. I can call him back later, or in a few days, heh.
- MATT
- And that's how you deal with it
- TRIP
- Well, Grace's parents... They're something else, really classy people --
- GRACE
- Uhh, no, they're impossible, they're always expecting me to act like the dutiful daughter, it's so annoying.
- TRIP
- (frustrated sigh)
- GRACE
- Well, we're all friends here...
- TRIP
- Oh, Matt, I thought you might like this photo I just put up from our recent trip to Italy.
- GRACE
- Uhh, it's a beautiful picture of the Italian countryside, of course he'll like it!
- MATT
- YES
- GRACE
- Oh yes, yes, go look at Trip's Italy photo...
- MATT
- VERY NICE PHOTO
- TRIP
- Heh, oh, well --
- GRACE
- Ah it's good to see you two getting along so well.
- TRIP
- (clears throat)
- GRACE
- Matt, this is making you uncomfortable. See Trip, was it really worth it to fly us all the way to Italy so you could take that inane picture?
- GRACE
- (little sigh) I'll take the picture down later tonight before I go to bed.
- TRIP
- Grace...!
- TRIP
- (short petulant sigh)
- TRIP
- Matt, this trip to Italy was meant to be our second honeymoon.
- GRACE
- Oh, was that what it was? Huh, I'm always the last to know.
- MATT
- Grace, who is your favourite pony?
- TRIP
- Wait wait wait -- see, uh -- I just wanted us to spend time together!
- GRACE
- Trip thinks carting me off to Europe will, how did you put it, thaw me out a little bit?
- TRIP
- Ahh, this is bullshit!
- GRACE
- Ahh, no, you're full of shit!
- GRACE
- Thaw me out...
- GRACE
- Trip, you think you're so romantic... but no you're trying to manipulate me!
- MATT
- Yo, don;t swear, motherfuckers
- GRACE
- What?!? That's awful, where did that come from? You're acting ridiculous!
- TRIP
- Your goddamn parents...
- TRIP
- You think you're better than me just because I didn't come from a rich background! You do, I know it, you think you're better than me!
- GRACE
- Oh, God...!
- GRACE
- Goddamn second honeymoon...
- GRACE
- Trip, our whole marriage, you're so... controlling!
- TRIP
- Oh, Jesus...!
- GRACE
- Okay, you know what, Matt,
- GRACE
- I need to ask you something.
- TRIP
- Grace --
- GRACE
- Trip, let me ask our guest a question.
- MATT
- SHOOT
- GRACE
- Matt, yes or no...
- GRACE
- In a marriage, shouldn't you try to help the other person get what they want?
- MATT
- yes
- TRIP
- What...?! -- (interrupted)
- TRIP
- Oh, alright... yeah...
- TRIP
- Uhh, I try so hard to reach out to you, Grace, and you reject me! You're cold! You're distant! I can't keep going this way, it's killing me!
- GRACE
- Oh, don't even...!
- GRACE
- Uhh! Yeah, good, get away from me!
- GRACE
- I can't stand you!
- GRACE
- Goddammit!
- MATT
- Well as we can see, Trip is a ghost
- GRACE
- What? What are you saying?
- TRIP
- Grace, are you talking about me?
- GRACE
- I'm not talking to you!
- GRACE
- Matt, I can't believe you have to see this...
- (MATT comforts grace.)
- TRIP
- Matt, in what you said before, about saying yes... I think we've already learned something about Grace.
- GRACE
- Oh, we're talking about me again, are we?
- TRIP
- What?
- TRIP
- Grace, even though you're now a creative director at work, and even though you redecorate the apartment all the time, the truth is... you're not an artist.
- GRACE
- Uhh...!
- TRIP
- I'm sorry, you're not.
- GRACE
- Matt, uhh...
- (MATT sits on the couch.)
- MATT
- Trip where's that god damn Merlot
- (MATT gets up from the couch.)
- TRIP
- Matt, come on, I don't feel like fixing drinks at this moment!
- GRACE
- Let's keep talking about Trip.
- TRIP
- See, what I've tried to do, -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- bitch you promised a Merlot
- GRACE
- God, Matt, can we just stop talking about Trip's stuff, please? (frustrated sigh)
- GRACE
- No let's -- let's focus on us, our relationship.
- GRACE
- Trip, can't you see, it's the way you speak, the way you talk to me...!
- TRIP
- What, I'm not allowed to be angry?
- GRACE
- You tell me what to do, you don't listen.
- TRIP
- Matt, I'm not telling her what to do, I'm trying to help her!
- GRACE
- Let's keep talking about us, our relationship.
- TRIP
- Grace, we don't -- we don't have to do this... things are okay, we can just --
- GRACE
- Matt, I can't stand the pretending anymore... I can't take it!
- TRIP
- No, Grace, we can... I mean, come on, don't make it out to be so bad...
- GRACE
- Uhh...
- MATT
- Let's drop the bass
- TRIP
- Let's talk some more about us both.
- (MATT sits on the couch.)
- TRIP
- You know, I can't say Grace never acts loving towards me...
- TRIP
- Matt, She's all over me at our goddamn parties, trying to look good in front of the guests!
- (MATT gets up from the couch.)
- GRACE
- No, I, I -- I want us to focus on Trip.
- TRIP
- Matt, you know, it's weird to me, when I'm on a business trip, Grace never calls me, ever!
- GRACE
- Uhh... -- (interrupted)
- MATT
- I know what we need
- TRIP
- What?
- GRACE
- Ah, you want to know more... see, that might help him...
- TRIP
- Uh, what?! I, I -- I, I mean, why, is -- is it something I'm... uhh...
- MATT
- I have some friends with abilities
- TRIP
- Look, let's not focus on just me or you, let's talk about us both.
- TRIP
- It's so annoying... Grace, why is it that anytime I want to do something nice for you, you resist it?
- GRACE
- Trip...
- TRIP
- Like I always have to convince you?
- GRACE
- Matt, you know, we... uhh...
- MATT
- In the words of Pinkie Pie:
- GRACE
- Let's talk some more about us, our relationship.
- TRIP
- You know what makes me so angry?
- MATT
- "Smile, bitch"
- TRIP
- Okay, Matt, I think this evening is over, you've got to leave.
- MATT
- shit son
- TRIP
- Matt, we're through messing around, you've got to go.
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT opens the front door.)
- MATT
- Fine
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- (MATT knocks on the front door.)
- MATT
- I'm taking this wine
- (MATT picks up the red wine bottle.)
- MATT
- Actually keep the wine
- (MATT puts down the red wine bottle.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- (MATT points to the elevator button.)
- MATT
- Fuck
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