The Performance of Heartbreak and Other Plays by Scott Caan

Author:Scott Caan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
Published: 2015-11-16T23:58:32+00:00

The Last Conversation

Minor Conversations—The Last Conversation

A COFFEE SHOP

A diner. Maybe a home. No, a diner, that’s better. SEAN and KELLY sit at a table. He’s almost forty. She’s on her way.

KELLY: This is it.

SEAN: What do you mean?

KELLY: This. Right here. This is it.

SEAN: You said that. What’s it mean?

KELLY: I don’t want to do it anymore.

Sean shifts in his seat a bit.

KELLY: I can’t do it anymore is what I’m saying.

Sean thinks about it. Maybe a bit of sadness, but he pushes it down.

SEAN: Okay.

She waits. Is there more?

KELLY: Wow.

SEAN: You don’t really leave a lot of room.

KELLY: If that’s how you see it.

SEAN: Me?

KELLY: Yes, you.

Sean takes a beat. Watches her.

SEAN: Is this what you imagined?

KELLY: No.

SEAN: I mean today. Now. We take turns being tough.

KELLY: Is that what we’re doing?

SEAN: You tell me. I just got here.

KELLY: You just got here? What does that mean?

SEAN: It means I just got here. I sat down. You’ve been thinking, I can only imagine. So what? You tell me. I’m just here.

KELLY: We’re both just here, Sean.

SEAN: No. I’m just here. You don’t want to do it anymore. In fact, you can’t. I’m just here. You? Something else. Something completely else.

Kelly just stares at him, frozen.

SEAN: What happened?

She looks for the words.

KELLY: It’s just…

SEAN: What? It’s just what?

KELLY: Everything.

SEAN: No. It’s not everything. That’s too easy. Everything is everything. This. What is this? This here.

KELLY: Please don’t.

SEAN: Please don’t what?

KELLY: Tell me. You’re too good. I can’t win.

SEAN: Well, who knows, maybe there’s a reason for that.

KELLY: See.

SEAN: No. I don’t see. See what? What am I looking for?

KELLY: You’re looking at me. You’re too quick. You’re so sharp. You got all the right things to say and I can’t win. So that’s it. That’s everything. I surrender.

SEAN: No, you don’t.

KELLY: I don’t.

SEAN: You don’t surrender, you give up. There’s a difference, you know.

KELLY: Well, I don’t know the difference.

SEAN: Sure you do.

KELLY: What do you want?

SEAN: Me?

KELLY: Who am I speaking with?

SEAN: It’s what you want. I don’t want. I’m just here. You asking me what I want? I didn’t want anything. I didn’t know I was going to be in that position. In fact, I’m not. At all. What do I want? No. What do you want?

KELLY: Is that really a question?

SEAN: I don’t know.

KELLY: Right.

SEAN: Right what? You want to know something? Ask me. Or tell me. You want something, say so. You can’t do it anymore? Nothing I can do about that. Unless there is.

KELLY: So, it is a question. That’s all. Don’t make me seem crazy for not being sure. What am I? New?

SEAN: Look it…

KELLY: No.

SEAN: No?

KELLY: Yes, no. You look it. You pay attention. You show up and be here and listen to me. Don’t talk me out of my way. I know what I’m doing and then you get going and I end up with no clue.

SEAN: Well, I don’t know what to say to that.

KELLY: Think of something.

Sean stands up.

SEAN: See, this is something.

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