Yesterday's Dream
Category: Full Length
Cast List
ALLY: 17- year- old teenage girl.
ALEX: 18-year-old male, Ally's boyfriend.
MELLISA CHAL: 45- year- old English teacher/ volunteer welfare worker.
JED CHAL: Mellisa's seventeen-year-old Son.
TONY: 17, Gothic/ punk style.
JIMMY: 17, Stoner/hippy. Idealist.
CARLY: 17, Tomboy.
KATE: 16, intellectual, fun loving, boisterous.
MARTHA: 16, Introvert, naturalist.
JENEANE: 19, snob, full of herself, cocky.
CLAYTON: 21, reckless, irresponsible. Good friend of Alex.
NEWSCASTOR: (Voice)
Synopsis: Ally a girl broken by tragedy is trapped in a toxic relationship, although she is blind to it. As the play progresses, she discovers the sort of man she truly loves, but at the cost of his life. Throughout the play she is transformed by a self-imposing English teacher and God ordained welfare worker (Mellisa Chal) and her spiritual yet misunderstood son (Jed Chal). She rediscovers her identity that she had forsaken in Jesus Christ, but not without the violent and fatal explosion of her mentally disturbed boyfriend (Alex).
Act 1
Scene 1
The scene is set in a present-day high school in a hallway. A group of friends are socializing in the background, while a steady stream of music is being played. Students are meandering through the halls, in their niche, doing things high school students do. The music stops; Ally crosses center stage with some books
ALLY: No Alex, I am not really sure what I am doing tomorrow (He Crosses to her) Please give me a moment to figure it out... Maybe I'll take a long much needed walk.
ALEX: You're cold, aren't you?
ALLY: No, um, (He wraps his jacket around her) I'm not cold.
ALEX: How about this? We get wasted tomorrow.
ALLY: Alex... You know how I feel...
ALEX: Come on this is a special occasion, Jimmies got a keg...
ALLY: About drinking? (They examine each other)
ALEX: (Pause) Come on we're the hottest item in Bark View high, I'm not going by myself.
ALLY: If we drink four two sixes and a Mickey we'll be the deadest item in Bark View high. (Exchange glances)
JIMMY: (Crosses near Alex) What's going on yo? (Hand slap with Alex)
ALEX: I'm trying to convince my girl that your keg is gonna be ballistic.
JIMMY: Ballistic? Oh Hells girl it's gonna be a yohippity smipity smash!
ALLY: Jimmy? What's yohippity?
ALEX: Ally, it's Jimmy. Don't get him started.
JIMMY: Man yohippity is like the serendipity of the hippies.
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Collective Plays
SpiritualThis is a selection from the variety of plays I've written in the last decade and then some. One of them, "Darker Side of Happiness" is now primarily a novel.
