act Join the waitlist

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

A chronicle in seven scenes

  • Slice of life
  • Drama
  • 3-character play
  • 1 woman, 1 man, 1 either
  • 32 min
  • Advanced
PDF Word Free, no sign-up

Synopsis

Victor, a retired proofreader from a newspaper printing works, is starting to lose his words. His daughter Eva won’t hear of a care home and brings in someone from a home-help agency, Alex, three mornings a week. Season by season, it is Alex that Victor starts talking to, and each of them keeps to themselves what they know.

Victor’s kitchen, on the third floor of a block of flats in Rouen, from one September to the next, the present day.

Casting

375 lines
  • VICTOR Male role, Senior 76, retired newspaper proofreader, widower, lives alone.
  • EVA Female role, Adult 44, his only daughter, mother of a teenage son, works in insurance.
  • ALEX No gender marker, Adult adult, home help, comes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.

Contents

  1. Scene 1: Tuesday, September
  2. Scene 2: Thursday, November
  3. Scene 3: Saturday, December
  4. Scene 4: Tuesday, February
  5. Scene 5: Thursday, April
  6. Scene 6: Saturday, June
  7. Scene 7: Tuesday, September

Excerpt

Scene 1: Tuesday, September

(A kitchen, in the morning. A table, three chairs, an armchair by the window. Victor sits in it reading the paper, a red pen in his hand. Eva comes in with Alex.)

EVA

This is the kitchen. Dad, this is Alex. From the agency.

VICTOR

Good morning, agency.

ALEX

Good morning, sir.

EVA

Right. The medicines are in the pill organiser, on the fridge. Morning, noon, night, it’s written on it. He always says he’s taken them. Check anyway.

VICTOR

He’s here. He can hear.

370 more lines, 7 scenes

The rest is waiting in the file.

Download the PDF Word

Free, no sign-up · 31 A4 pages

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.

Everything about these texts →

The same text, elsewhere

Close to this one