The Fourth Wall's Revenge
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sagesariaTitle: The Fourth Wall's Revenge
Category: Play, original
Rating: PG
Genre: Humor
Summary: The Fourth Wall is sick of being abused and knocked down and seeks its revenge on a group of actors.
Status: Complete
Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coreybear for helping me!
The Fourth Wall’s Revenge
Cast:
Alice/homeless woman
Jonathan/business man
Ron/Cabby
Bobby/tourist
The Fourth Wall
News Anchor/Scott the director/Audience member
Scene 1
A city scene. The street is empty except for a few cars. Enter Jonathan .
Jonathan: I used to be important. A multi-billionaire. I’d go to work every day, work hard, come home with presents for my kids and food for my wife to cook for dinner. But it’s all gone downhill. My wife left me for another man last month, and she took the kids. I was so devastated, I couldn’t concentrate on work, and they fired me! So here I am, no job, no family. If I can just get a copy of a newspaper maybe I could find another job and get by.
Enter Alice
Alice: hoarse Evicted! Can you believe it? I’d barely moved in, and they throw me out like that! So now here I am, cold, alone, the only food I get from the garbage. And everybody hates me! Oh, if only somebody could give me a moments kindness…
Enter Ron
Ron: Man, this city sucks! Everybody here is so selfish! “Take me here!” “Take me there!” all day long! And they underpay me! Grrr…..if only I could find someone to actually pay me full charge!
Enter Bobby
Bobby: It’s been five hours since I got here from the airport, and I haven’t even found a good hotel! Everything is so big and new! I wish I hadn’t lost the map…if only somebody could give me directions!
All: *sigh*
Jonathan looks up
Jonathan: Hey, what’s that?
Alice, Ron and Bobby: What?
Jonathan: Points out into the audience Out there! Look at all those people!
Alice: Wow! I didn’t even know they were here!
Ron: They all look so friendly!
Alice: Maybe they could help us!
Jonathan: Maybe….Hey look! That man has a newspaper!
Ron: That guy over there looks like quite a money-maker!
Bobby: Maybe he can tell me where to find a hotel!
Alice: Is that a soup kitchen?
All: Excuse me!
Enter Scott
Scott: And scene!
Actors drop character and sigh
Alice: coughs once Sheesh, the hoarse beggar voice is hard on the throat. grabs a glass of water and swigs it
Scott: That was perfect! If you do exactly the same thing next week, this play will be a hit!
Bobby: I should hope so, Scott. It’s a brilliant play!
Scott: Well thank you, Bobby. I’ve been working on it for years.
Ron: takes off his cap and looks at it Hey Scott, I don’t know if I like using this cap. Do you have another one we could try?
Scott: I dunno Ron, lemme check in the back.
Ron: Thanks!
Exit Scott
Jonathan: So, Alice, we don’t get to talk all that much anymore.
Alice: turns away I guess not.
Jonathan: How’s everything been?
Alice: All right, I guess.
Jonathan: Still going out with that guy?
Alice: Yeah.
Jonathan: How’s he doing?
Alice: Alright.
Jonathan: Good. Pause Listen…I know things didn’t really work out between us, but I was thinking….maybe we could try again?
Alice: Jonathan, that relationship is behind us now. The answer is still no.
Jonathan: Come on, Alice, I’m a changed man! I can keep my temper under control now! I’ve got a job, I’ve moved out of my parents’ basement, I’m a better person now! Please, just gimme another chance! I miss you.
Alice: No, Jonathan. Exit
Bobby: Come on, man, she’s not just gonna change her mind like that.
Ron: You hurt her pretty bad last time. That’s not something easily forgiven.
Jonathan: I know….but…it’s just that….I feel so bad about what I’ve done. I just want her to forgive me.
Ron: She doesn’t have to start dating you again to forgive you.
Jonathan: I know, but--
Alice screams off stage, then comes running in, frantic
Alice: Oh my God! He’s dead! Scott’s dead!
Bobby, Ron and Jonathan: What???
Alice: Points offstage Backstage! He’s been stabbed to death!
Jonathan: To Bobby Call the police!
Fourth Wall: Off stage I wouldn’t do that if I were you.
Alice, Jonathan, Bobby and Ron turn. Enter Fourth Wall, bloody knife in one hand, glaring evilly
Bobby: Who….who are you?
Fourth Wall: You all know who I am. I am the most disrespected and overlooked of all of the theatre! I…..am the Fourth Wall!
Ron: The fourth what?
Alice: The fourth wall. You know that phrase, when the actors in the play talk to the audience or acknowledge that it’s a play, they say that it’s breaking the fourth wall!
Fourth Wall: That’s right, little girl. And your precious director was one of the many who have abused me so shamelessly in their plays.
Actors: Abused?
Fourth Wall: Yes. Abused. You see…back in the old days, when the Greeks created theatre, everything was brand new and respected. There was a fine line between the stage and the audience. And I was that line. I was content to remain unseen, separating stage and seating, watching the wonderful performances of Antigone and The Frogs and The Trojan Women. But then I was discovered by the most corrupt theatre mind of all…William Shakespeare. It was all right at first, I mean, sitting around making sure the plays go smoothly, someone’s bound to see you sooner or later. But what he has done to me…..he has corrupted the stage forever, and he tears me apart every time! In his plays…..the actors….they TALK TO THE AUDIENCE!!!! The plays must NEVER acknowledge that they are plays! The audience has no business in the play! Well….except to pay our actors…..but that’s not the point! Every monologue….every single one of them….it was like tearing my heart out…literally!
Bobby: Actually, those were just the sil—
Fourth Wall: SHUT UP!!! And it didn’t stop with Shakespeare. After him, all of the plays went to hell! Peter Pan; why couldn’t they just have a cast of children in the play itself?!? Did the original Peter Pan book have Peter Pan beg the reader to clap for Tinker Bell? DID IT?!?!? Every clap for Tinker Bell was a knife in my heart! And then….Into the Woods; when they killed the Narrator…(and why did they even HAVE a narrator? Once upon a time, we didn’t use narrators. We used a Chorus!)…when they killed the Narrator….I felt as if both of my legs were broken in two. And don’t even get me STARTED on Shear Madness! Why couldn’t they just figure out the mystery themselves?!?!? That play……that play set my very skin on fire! So you see….when the plays break the Fourth Wall, they really break the Fourth Wall. I’m tired of being battered and abused for their own amusement. I want my place in the world back! If you’re so obsessed with bringing in the outside world, why don’t you just give up theatre all together and HAVE A CONVERSATION?!?!?!? And why is it always me??? You’ve got three other walls to choose from! Why don’t you pick on them?!? Well, no more! The world of the stage is going to pay for what it’s done to me! And I’m starting with the directors and actors of the world. Aside You do realize, of course, that I’m gonna get you guys in the audience too—OW! Clutches chest
Long pause
Ron: Umm…..we’re sorry?
Fourth Wall: Sorry?? SORRY?!? You’re not sorry! Nobody’s sorry! Was William Shakespeare sorry? Was Steven Sondheim sorry? Was Neal Simon sorry? It’s too late for apologies, little boy. This city’s goin’ down! Exit, laughing evilly
Actors look at each other, lights dim
Scene 2
Ron’s apartment. The actors are sitting on a couch, watching the news.
News Anchor: All over the globe, world-renowned directors and actors are disappearing, their mutilated bodies showing up in back-alleys of popular playhouses a few days later. There is no lead in who is doing these merciless and revolting crimes.
Alice: Turn it off. Jonathan stands up and turns off the television What are we going to do? He’s gone completely insane! He’ll kill us all.
Ron: Don’t say that, Alice!
Bobby: Yeah, we’ve gotta fight back! We can’t just give up and let everything we’ve dreamed of disappear!
Alice: But how do we defeat an enraged wall?
Ron: She has a point…slumps back onto the couch
Bobby: Maybe….maybe if we made amends? Apologized again? Promise to stick only to Greek plays!
Ron: You kidding me? He’s merciless! It’ll be like talking to a wall!
Bobby, Alice and Jonathan: deadpan
Ron: What?
Alice: Like I said. We’re doomed.
Jonathan: This is just like you, Alice! You’re always so pessimistic!
Alice: Oh yeah, I’m so pessimistic because there’s OBVIOSLY nothing we can do!
Ron: Whoa, hey, Alice--
Jonathan: There’s always a way out of these things! You just never see them!
Bobby: Jon—
Alice: And how many times have you been chased by a crazed wall?
Jonathan: How do you even know that’s really who he says he is? He could be some lunatic trying to get famous, and that means he’s mortal!
Bobby: Guys—
Alice: Well, we can’t just go and kill a person, normal or no!
Jonathan: Well he’s killing every goddamn person in the country!
Alice: Two wrongs don’t make a right!
Ron: Guys, please—
Jonathan: Well if two wrongs don’t make a right, then what the hell are we supposed to do???
Alice: NOTHING!!! THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING!!! Bursts into tears This is exactly why we broke up, Jonathan. All you wanted to do was fight. And now I see you haven’t changed at all. Exit
Jonathan: Wait, Alice! Door slams Goddammit!
Long pause
Bobby: Let it go, man. We’re all scared. Give her time.
Jonathan: Oh man I blew it. I really fucking blew it this time!
Ron: Yup. You sure did.
Jonathan: glare Gee, thanks. Looks at door You think she’ll be ok out there? Should we go after her?
Ron: She should be fine! The Wall was in London last time we checked. He won’t be showing up for a while.
Jonathan: I hope your right.
Bobby: Come on, let’s deal with the issue at hand; what do we do about the Wall?
Ron: Maybe…..if we go away and pretend he doesn’t even exist, he’ll forget all about us! Or maybe he’ll die of neglect!
Bobby and Jonathan: deadpan
Ron: What???
Bobby: He can’t die of neglect, Ron. He’s spent years without being noticed.
Ron: Aww….
Jonathan: How do you defeat the Fourth Wall…….Ding! Wait! I’ve got an idea that just might work!
Bobby, Ron and Jonathan huddle, only whispers are heard
Bobby: Wow.
Ron: That’s so crazy it just might work!
Alice screams offstage
Jonathan: Well, now’s the time to see if it works! Let’s go!
Exeunt
Scene 3
Outside Ron’s apartment. The Fourth Wall has Alice backed against a wall, knife at her throat
Alice: No…..no, please…..
Fourth Wall: Cut the whining, little girl.
Alice: But I’m an actor! It’s my turn to bicker! You think you’re the only one with problems?
Fourth Wall: SHUT UP!!!
Enter Jonathan, Bobby and Ron
Jonathan: Alice!
Alice: Johnny!
Fourth Wall: Ah hah! I thought you three were somewhere around here. Grabs Alice Now if you don’t want your little girlfriend hurt, you’ll come quietly.
Alice: No Johnny! Save yourself! Forget about me!
Jonathan: Forget it, Wall! We’re not giving in! You’re goin’ down!
Fourth Wall: HA! What in the world makes you think you can defeat me?
Bobby: Because we have help from…..THE AUDIENCE!!!!!
Fourth Wall: What? NO!
Jonathan: Aside Audience! We need your help!
Fourth Wall: AGH!!! Drops Alice, clutching his chest
Ron: It’s working! It’s working!
Bobby: If you want Alice to live, scream!
Fourth Wall: Aaah! My heart! My poor brick-solid heart!
Bobby: I can’t hear you! We need more! Make a riot! You clapped for Tinker Bell, you can clap for us! Now whoop it up! SCREAM!!!!
Ron: Runs out into the audience and brings up Audience Member What’s your name, friend?
Audience member: [Name]
Ron: [Name], go ahead and say something!
Audience member: [Blah]
Fourth Wall: Gasp Can’t…..breathe….ribs…….broken…..
Ron: Thank you. Now, Wall-boy, do you surrender?
Fourth Wall: Never!
Bobby: Your loss. Aside Audience! We need more! “Fourth Wall must fall! Fourth Wall must fall!” etc.
Fourth Wall: No….stop….agh…chokes you’re killing me! Auugh! Draws knife If I must go, you all go with me!!! Attacks Alice
Alice: Eek! Hides behind Audience Member Keep me safe!
Fourth Wall: Ugh….staggers no….I’m melting…..slumps to the floor
Jonathan: Pokes Fourth Wall with foot Yup, he’s dead.
Bobby: Whoo-hoo! We kicked his ass so hard…
Ron: That was awesome! Aside Thank you, everyone! We couldn’t have done it without you! To audience member You can sit down now.
Jonathan: Are you all right, Alice?
Alice: I-I think so…
Bobby: You know, this was all Jonathan’s plan.
Alice: What?
Ron: The whole asking the audience for help thing, Jonathan planned that.
Alice: Johnny….you….you saved me? Bursts into tears and throws herself into Jonathan’s arms. Jonathan is stunned at first, but then smiles and hugs her.
Bobby: Wait….I just realized something!
Ron, Jonathan and Alice: What?
Bobby: Well…now that the Fourth Wall is gone…what’s gonna happen to Theatre?
Alice: Damn, he’s right!
Jonathan: All the plays in the world…can talk to the audience like nobody’s business!
Ron: What’ll become of the acting world?
Actors: shrug
Exeunt
Category: Play, original
Rating: PG
Genre: Humor
Summary: The Fourth Wall is sick of being abused and knocked down and seeks its revenge on a group of actors.
Status: Complete
Thanks to
coreybear for helping me!The Fourth Wall’s Revenge
Cast:
Alice/homeless woman
Jonathan/business man
Ron/Cabby
Bobby/tourist
The Fourth Wall
News Anchor/Scott the director/Audience member
Scene 1
A city scene. The street is empty except for a few cars. Enter Jonathan .
Jonathan: I used to be important. A multi-billionaire. I’d go to work every day, work hard, come home with presents for my kids and food for my wife to cook for dinner. But it’s all gone downhill. My wife left me for another man last month, and she took the kids. I was so devastated, I couldn’t concentrate on work, and they fired me! So here I am, no job, no family. If I can just get a copy of a newspaper maybe I could find another job and get by.
Enter Alice
Alice: hoarse Evicted! Can you believe it? I’d barely moved in, and they throw me out like that! So now here I am, cold, alone, the only food I get from the garbage. And everybody hates me! Oh, if only somebody could give me a moments kindness…
Enter Ron
Ron: Man, this city sucks! Everybody here is so selfish! “Take me here!” “Take me there!” all day long! And they underpay me! Grrr…..if only I could find someone to actually pay me full charge!
Enter Bobby
Bobby: It’s been five hours since I got here from the airport, and I haven’t even found a good hotel! Everything is so big and new! I wish I hadn’t lost the map…if only somebody could give me directions!
All: *sigh*
Jonathan looks up
Jonathan: Hey, what’s that?
Alice, Ron and Bobby: What?
Jonathan: Points out into the audience Out there! Look at all those people!
Alice: Wow! I didn’t even know they were here!
Ron: They all look so friendly!
Alice: Maybe they could help us!
Jonathan: Maybe….Hey look! That man has a newspaper!
Ron: That guy over there looks like quite a money-maker!
Bobby: Maybe he can tell me where to find a hotel!
Alice: Is that a soup kitchen?
All: Excuse me!
Enter Scott
Scott: And scene!
Actors drop character and sigh
Alice: coughs once Sheesh, the hoarse beggar voice is hard on the throat. grabs a glass of water and swigs it
Scott: That was perfect! If you do exactly the same thing next week, this play will be a hit!
Bobby: I should hope so, Scott. It’s a brilliant play!
Scott: Well thank you, Bobby. I’ve been working on it for years.
Ron: takes off his cap and looks at it Hey Scott, I don’t know if I like using this cap. Do you have another one we could try?
Scott: I dunno Ron, lemme check in the back.
Ron: Thanks!
Exit Scott
Jonathan: So, Alice, we don’t get to talk all that much anymore.
Alice: turns away I guess not.
Jonathan: How’s everything been?
Alice: All right, I guess.
Jonathan: Still going out with that guy?
Alice: Yeah.
Jonathan: How’s he doing?
Alice: Alright.
Jonathan: Good. Pause Listen…I know things didn’t really work out between us, but I was thinking….maybe we could try again?
Alice: Jonathan, that relationship is behind us now. The answer is still no.
Jonathan: Come on, Alice, I’m a changed man! I can keep my temper under control now! I’ve got a job, I’ve moved out of my parents’ basement, I’m a better person now! Please, just gimme another chance! I miss you.
Alice: No, Jonathan. Exit
Bobby: Come on, man, she’s not just gonna change her mind like that.
Ron: You hurt her pretty bad last time. That’s not something easily forgiven.
Jonathan: I know….but…it’s just that….I feel so bad about what I’ve done. I just want her to forgive me.
Ron: She doesn’t have to start dating you again to forgive you.
Jonathan: I know, but--
Alice screams off stage, then comes running in, frantic
Alice: Oh my God! He’s dead! Scott’s dead!
Bobby, Ron and Jonathan: What???
Alice: Points offstage Backstage! He’s been stabbed to death!
Jonathan: To Bobby Call the police!
Fourth Wall: Off stage I wouldn’t do that if I were you.
Alice, Jonathan, Bobby and Ron turn. Enter Fourth Wall, bloody knife in one hand, glaring evilly
Bobby: Who….who are you?
Fourth Wall: You all know who I am. I am the most disrespected and overlooked of all of the theatre! I…..am the Fourth Wall!
Ron: The fourth what?
Alice: The fourth wall. You know that phrase, when the actors in the play talk to the audience or acknowledge that it’s a play, they say that it’s breaking the fourth wall!
Fourth Wall: That’s right, little girl. And your precious director was one of the many who have abused me so shamelessly in their plays.
Actors: Abused?
Fourth Wall: Yes. Abused. You see…back in the old days, when the Greeks created theatre, everything was brand new and respected. There was a fine line between the stage and the audience. And I was that line. I was content to remain unseen, separating stage and seating, watching the wonderful performances of Antigone and The Frogs and The Trojan Women. But then I was discovered by the most corrupt theatre mind of all…William Shakespeare. It was all right at first, I mean, sitting around making sure the plays go smoothly, someone’s bound to see you sooner or later. But what he has done to me…..he has corrupted the stage forever, and he tears me apart every time! In his plays…..the actors….they TALK TO THE AUDIENCE!!!! The plays must NEVER acknowledge that they are plays! The audience has no business in the play! Well….except to pay our actors…..but that’s not the point! Every monologue….every single one of them….it was like tearing my heart out…literally!
Bobby: Actually, those were just the sil—
Fourth Wall: SHUT UP!!! And it didn’t stop with Shakespeare. After him, all of the plays went to hell! Peter Pan; why couldn’t they just have a cast of children in the play itself?!? Did the original Peter Pan book have Peter Pan beg the reader to clap for Tinker Bell? DID IT?!?!? Every clap for Tinker Bell was a knife in my heart! And then….Into the Woods; when they killed the Narrator…(and why did they even HAVE a narrator? Once upon a time, we didn’t use narrators. We used a Chorus!)…when they killed the Narrator….I felt as if both of my legs were broken in two. And don’t even get me STARTED on Shear Madness! Why couldn’t they just figure out the mystery themselves?!?!? That play……that play set my very skin on fire! So you see….when the plays break the Fourth Wall, they really break the Fourth Wall. I’m tired of being battered and abused for their own amusement. I want my place in the world back! If you’re so obsessed with bringing in the outside world, why don’t you just give up theatre all together and HAVE A CONVERSATION?!?!?!? And why is it always me??? You’ve got three other walls to choose from! Why don’t you pick on them?!? Well, no more! The world of the stage is going to pay for what it’s done to me! And I’m starting with the directors and actors of the world. Aside You do realize, of course, that I’m gonna get you guys in the audience too—OW! Clutches chest
Long pause
Ron: Umm…..we’re sorry?
Fourth Wall: Sorry?? SORRY?!? You’re not sorry! Nobody’s sorry! Was William Shakespeare sorry? Was Steven Sondheim sorry? Was Neal Simon sorry? It’s too late for apologies, little boy. This city’s goin’ down! Exit, laughing evilly
Actors look at each other, lights dim
Scene 2
Ron’s apartment. The actors are sitting on a couch, watching the news.
News Anchor: All over the globe, world-renowned directors and actors are disappearing, their mutilated bodies showing up in back-alleys of popular playhouses a few days later. There is no lead in who is doing these merciless and revolting crimes.
Alice: Turn it off. Jonathan stands up and turns off the television What are we going to do? He’s gone completely insane! He’ll kill us all.
Ron: Don’t say that, Alice!
Bobby: Yeah, we’ve gotta fight back! We can’t just give up and let everything we’ve dreamed of disappear!
Alice: But how do we defeat an enraged wall?
Ron: She has a point…slumps back onto the couch
Bobby: Maybe….maybe if we made amends? Apologized again? Promise to stick only to Greek plays!
Ron: You kidding me? He’s merciless! It’ll be like talking to a wall!
Bobby, Alice and Jonathan: deadpan
Ron: What?
Alice: Like I said. We’re doomed.
Jonathan: This is just like you, Alice! You’re always so pessimistic!
Alice: Oh yeah, I’m so pessimistic because there’s OBVIOSLY nothing we can do!
Ron: Whoa, hey, Alice--
Jonathan: There’s always a way out of these things! You just never see them!
Bobby: Jon—
Alice: And how many times have you been chased by a crazed wall?
Jonathan: How do you even know that’s really who he says he is? He could be some lunatic trying to get famous, and that means he’s mortal!
Bobby: Guys—
Alice: Well, we can’t just go and kill a person, normal or no!
Jonathan: Well he’s killing every goddamn person in the country!
Alice: Two wrongs don’t make a right!
Ron: Guys, please—
Jonathan: Well if two wrongs don’t make a right, then what the hell are we supposed to do???
Alice: NOTHING!!! THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING!!! Bursts into tears This is exactly why we broke up, Jonathan. All you wanted to do was fight. And now I see you haven’t changed at all. Exit
Jonathan: Wait, Alice! Door slams Goddammit!
Long pause
Bobby: Let it go, man. We’re all scared. Give her time.
Jonathan: Oh man I blew it. I really fucking blew it this time!
Ron: Yup. You sure did.
Jonathan: glare Gee, thanks. Looks at door You think she’ll be ok out there? Should we go after her?
Ron: She should be fine! The Wall was in London last time we checked. He won’t be showing up for a while.
Jonathan: I hope your right.
Bobby: Come on, let’s deal with the issue at hand; what do we do about the Wall?
Ron: Maybe…..if we go away and pretend he doesn’t even exist, he’ll forget all about us! Or maybe he’ll die of neglect!
Bobby and Jonathan: deadpan
Ron: What???
Bobby: He can’t die of neglect, Ron. He’s spent years without being noticed.
Ron: Aww….
Jonathan: How do you defeat the Fourth Wall…….Ding! Wait! I’ve got an idea that just might work!
Bobby, Ron and Jonathan huddle, only whispers are heard
Bobby: Wow.
Ron: That’s so crazy it just might work!
Alice screams offstage
Jonathan: Well, now’s the time to see if it works! Let’s go!
Exeunt
Scene 3
Outside Ron’s apartment. The Fourth Wall has Alice backed against a wall, knife at her throat
Alice: No…..no, please…..
Fourth Wall: Cut the whining, little girl.
Alice: But I’m an actor! It’s my turn to bicker! You think you’re the only one with problems?
Fourth Wall: SHUT UP!!!
Enter Jonathan, Bobby and Ron
Jonathan: Alice!
Alice: Johnny!
Fourth Wall: Ah hah! I thought you three were somewhere around here. Grabs Alice Now if you don’t want your little girlfriend hurt, you’ll come quietly.
Alice: No Johnny! Save yourself! Forget about me!
Jonathan: Forget it, Wall! We’re not giving in! You’re goin’ down!
Fourth Wall: HA! What in the world makes you think you can defeat me?
Bobby: Because we have help from…..THE AUDIENCE!!!!!
Fourth Wall: What? NO!
Jonathan: Aside Audience! We need your help!
Fourth Wall: AGH!!! Drops Alice, clutching his chest
Ron: It’s working! It’s working!
Bobby: If you want Alice to live, scream!
Fourth Wall: Aaah! My heart! My poor brick-solid heart!
Bobby: I can’t hear you! We need more! Make a riot! You clapped for Tinker Bell, you can clap for us! Now whoop it up! SCREAM!!!!
Ron: Runs out into the audience and brings up Audience Member What’s your name, friend?
Audience member: [Name]
Ron: [Name], go ahead and say something!
Audience member: [Blah]
Fourth Wall: Gasp Can’t…..breathe….ribs…….broken…..
Ron: Thank you. Now, Wall-boy, do you surrender?
Fourth Wall: Never!
Bobby: Your loss. Aside Audience! We need more! “Fourth Wall must fall! Fourth Wall must fall!” etc.
Fourth Wall: No….stop….agh…chokes you’re killing me! Auugh! Draws knife If I must go, you all go with me!!! Attacks Alice
Alice: Eek! Hides behind Audience Member Keep me safe!
Fourth Wall: Ugh….staggers no….I’m melting…..slumps to the floor
Jonathan: Pokes Fourth Wall with foot Yup, he’s dead.
Bobby: Whoo-hoo! We kicked his ass so hard…
Ron: That was awesome! Aside Thank you, everyone! We couldn’t have done it without you! To audience member You can sit down now.
Jonathan: Are you all right, Alice?
Alice: I-I think so…
Bobby: You know, this was all Jonathan’s plan.
Alice: What?
Ron: The whole asking the audience for help thing, Jonathan planned that.
Alice: Johnny….you….you saved me? Bursts into tears and throws herself into Jonathan’s arms. Jonathan is stunned at first, but then smiles and hugs her.
Bobby: Wait….I just realized something!
Ron, Jonathan and Alice: What?
Bobby: Well…now that the Fourth Wall is gone…what’s gonna happen to Theatre?
Alice: Damn, he’s right!
Jonathan: All the plays in the world…can talk to the audience like nobody’s business!
Ron: What’ll become of the acting world?
Actors: shrug
Exeunt
