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Yes, But

A comedy in four scenes

  • Sketches
  • Romantic comedy
  • 9-character play
  • 4 women, 3 men, 2 either
  • 28 min
  • Beginner
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Synopsis

One Saturday in June, at the town hall, Camille is conducting weddings, as every week for the past twelve years. But today, at every ceremony, someone answers “yes, but”: two witnesses who have never met, a bride with conditions, a daughter who doesn’t want to watch her parents marry again. And Marco, the receptionist, has applied for a transfer to a town by the sea.

The wedding room of a neighbourhood town hall in France, one Saturday in June, from ten in the morning to four in the afternoon.

Casting

300 lines
  • CAMILLE No gender marker, Adult fifty-something, a town councillor for twenty years, has conducted the Saturday weddings for twelve.
  • MARCO Male role, Adult 56, town hall receptionist for twenty years, has kept things formal with Camille since the very first day.
  • SAM No gender marker, Young adult 27, signs the register for the quarter-past-ten bride, has known her since nursery school.
  • INÈS Female role, Young adult 26, sister of the quarter-past-ten groom, and his witness.
  • ELENA Female role, Adult 35, getting married at half past eleven.
  • RAFAEL Male role, Adult 38, her husband-to-be, makes lists.
  • MILA Female role, Adult 45, Rosa and Victor’s daughter, witness at their second wedding.
  • ROSA Female role, Senior 74, divorced from Victor in 1993, marrying him again today.
  • VICTOR Male role, Senior 77, Rosa’s former and future husband.

Contents

  1. Scene 1: The Witnesses
  2. Scene 2: The Conditions
  3. Scene 3: The Bride’s Daughter
  4. Scene 4: Second Time Around

Excerpt

Scene 1: The Witnesses

(Ten o’clock. The wedding room: a table, a register, a bouquet in a bucket. Marco is lining up chairs. Camille is going over some index cards.)

MARCO

There’s the dance tonight, in the square.

CAMILLE

I know. They’ve hung paper lanterns right outside my office. I had to crawl under them on all fours.

MARCO

I was wondering if you…

CAMILLE

If I?

MARCO

If you liked dancing.

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