The Last Copy
Rom-com, the bookshop
- Romantic comedy
- Two-hander
- 3 min
- Female role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
14 lines- ELLE Female role, Adult your role
- LUI Male role, Adult
Excerpt
(A bookshop, a rainy evening. Two hands land on the same book.)
ELLE
I was here first.
LUI
My hand got here first. I have witnesses.
(He points at the empty shelf.)
LUI
Well. Had.
ELLE
It’s for my sister’s birthday. Tomorrow. You can’t win.
LUI
It’s for me. Breakup. Last Tuesday. I believe we’re even.
What you can do with it
Original text written for Acto. Read it, print it, work on it in class, perform it at an audition or on a self-tape: that is what it is for, and you need no permission. For a public performance or any commercial use, write to us at contact@acto.re.
In these selections
The same text, elsewhere
Close to this one
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The Balcony Scene
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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The Breakdown
“Technical incident.” It’s been an incident for forty minutes. At what point does it become a life? I’ve missed my connection. And the wedding at the end of it. I was a bridesmaid.
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The Ex
Well. You. Me. What a coincidence, at a wedding where our two best friends are getting married. Totally unforeseeable.