Zombie Apocalypse Part Two
Transcript of Zombie Apocalypse Part Two
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Scenes from
the ZombieApocalypsePart two
Fifteen plays about zombies
for you to perform
(if you dare)
By Kent Suss
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Authors note:
These plays can be played any way you wish: as comedy, tragedy, social
commentary, or gorefest. They can be done with hardly anything to
distinguish the humans from the zombies, and with understated violence, or
they can be played with lots of makeup, stage blood, and screaming. Its
really up to you. Perform them alone or together, in any order you wish.
In some scenes Ive written actual words the zombies say. In other places,
they say things like Grrr and Hrrrgh! Its up to you to decide how to
make your zombies speak. Can they speak clearly enough to be understood,
or do they just speak in roars and grunts?
Once youve tried out these scenes, why not make up your own scenariosabout zombies and take the story in a new direction? I hope working on
these scenes inspires you to explore the exciting world of acting and writing,
for theatre and film.
Several of these scenes were first performed by students from Frontier
School Division as part of the Royal Winnipeg Ballets Northern
Connections exchange, June 2011. Others were made into short films by
students in the Advanced Film class at Manitoba Theatre for Young People
in Fall, 2011 and screened at the Freeze Frame Film Festival, Winnipeg,
2012.
These plays may be performed royalty free for class projects and non-profit
events.
Kent Suss 2012
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Cast of Characters:
The zombie hunters:
Jeremy Cares about his image, his lingo, his hair. Doesnt hate the zombies so much as
hes disgusted by them.
Ruby Courageous leader of the freedom fighters.
Theo A really nice guy. Hes got room in his heart for the zombies.
Sarah A science nerd who helps unravel the mystery of the zombies.
Vaughn A chivalrous romantic, Vaughn cant get over Janet. The fact that shes a
zombie doesnt matter.
Dustin brags about how tough he is to hide his fear of the zombies.
The adults:Hilda a lunch lady at the school cafeteria
Sally another lunch lady
Sarahs MomSarahs Grandma
The Zombies:Theos mother
Janet
RonaldMany more
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Scene Ten: The Antidote (3 performers)
Location: the lab
Characters: Sarah, Ruby, Jeremy(Sarah is looking through a microscope. Ruby and Jeremy watch anxiously.)
RUBY
Can you find a cure, Sarah?
SARAH
Its complicated. See these squirmy things?
JEREMY
(looking through the microscope) Ew! Gross!
RUBY
(stepping in) Let me see!
SARAH
The first Zombies were seen last Tuesday, right? Heres my theory. On Monday
night the football team came straight to the school dance after practice. A defensivelineman left his bag open, and one of his socks was so putrid, it crawled out of his
bag, across the dance floor. What youre looking at is a critter I call Stinky jock
sock bacteria!
RUBY
Totally disgusting.
SARAH
Right. The escaped jock sock followed the smell of food to the cafeteria, where it
attacked the bacon that was being fried for the next days lunch special. Check thisout. (puts a new slide under the microscope) I call itare you ready for this?
Stinkifried super duper baconteria!
JEREMY
Cool name. (peers into the microscope and recoils in disgust)
SARAH
Thanks.
RUBY
Really? REALLY?
SARAHThese critters lay dormant in the bacon until Tuesday morning, when the lunch ladies
reheated it, and radiation from the microwave morphed it into
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RUBYDont say it. Let me guessSuper stinky
JEREMY
Micro-irradiated
RUBY Jockamorphateria
JEREMY and RUBY(together) a la Bacon!
SARAH
Exactly right! Then polluted mosquitoes from the slough behind the nuclear reactorlaid their eggs on the bacon and when the larva hatched---
RUBYAll right, all right! Did you find a cure?
SARAH(points to a collection of bottles.) Right here.
JEREMY
(grabs a bottle) Great! Lets go!
(Jeremy and Ruby exit)
SARAH
Uh, Jeremy, thats glass cleaner. (Jeremy is already too far away to hear. Sarah holds
up a miniscule test tube.) THIS is the antidote.
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Scene Eleven: Battle Preparations (5 performers)
Location: A Park
Characters: Ronald, Janet, Vaughn, Theo, Dustin(The zombies are preparing for battle.)
RONALDComrades, if we are to survive, we have to stick together.
DUSTINThere are normals everywhere! Im going to pee my pants.
THEOI did pee my pants.
RONALD
Never mind that. Lets see what you brought back from our raid to the store. Janet?
JANET
I found this frying pan. I thought we could use it to bash their heads in.
DUSTIN
I though we were supposed to bite them.
VAUGHN
You want to bite people? Go ahead. I think its gross.
RONALDI love the pan. Way to go. What have you got, Dustin?
(Dustin pulls a teddy bear from behind his back.)
RONALDA teddy bear? Whats that for?
DUSTINUm, I
RONALDGet rid of it, you wimp!
DUSTIN
I like it.
RONALD
(grabs the bear and pulls on it) Give it here!
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DUSTINI want it. Its like, padding.
(Ronald pulls the bear away, puts it against Dustin, and punches him through it)
DUSTIN
Hey!
RONALD
Works great. Theo?
THEO
I got this spoon thingy.
(Ronald snatches the spoony thingy and whacks Theo)
THEOOw!
RONALDHow about you, Vaughn? What did you get?
VAUGHN
(Hiding his bags behind his back) I couldnt really find anything.
RONALD
Come on, Vaughn!
VAUGHN
I dont want to say.
(Ronald grabs Vaughns bag and dumps it out.)
RONALDWhats this? Hair gel? Fake tan bronzer? What the heck, Vaughn? This stuff is all
about Vaughn looking good! What about survival? What about the team?
VAUGHN
It was all free! All right? My family could never afford this stuff, and there I was in
the Shopmart, and the windows were all smashed out. And I thought, the undeadnever brush their teeth, and we dont exfoliate, and we ignore our hair, and look at
us!! We look like crap, and we smell worse. When is the last time you took a bath?
Youre letting yourselves go. Well Im not gonna die looking like I dont care. Imgonna keep myself looking fine
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RONALD
(grabs the hair gel) Gimme some of that.
DUSTIN
Is that toothpaste? Pass it here.
THEO
I want the bronzer.
JANET
(holding up the skin crme) Does this zit creme really work?
(The zombies start giving themselves a makeover.)
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Scene Twelve: (5 or more performers)
Location: Street
Characters: Ruby, Jeremy, Ronald, Vaughn, Janet, Sarah
(Ruby and Jeremy enter holding a spray bottle. Stylishly made over zombies [see
scene 11] surround them, carrying weapons.)
RUBY
Wait! Stop fighting! We dont have to kill each other!
RONALD
Sarah, were in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. This is Armageddon! GroundZero!
THEOYeah! It ends here!
JANET
Were here to fight to the death.
JEREMY
You dont have to, because I have the antidote! (he pulls a spray bottle from his bag)
RONALD
What is that?
RUBY
Spray this on yourself, and you become human again!
RONALD
(doubtfully) I dont know.
RUBY
Ronald, how can you say that? This is your chance to be healed.
RONALD
Healed of what?
(Pause. Ronald and Ruby stare each other down.)
JEREMY
Of being a zombie, stupid!
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ALL(mumbling) Always a freedom fighter.
JEREMY
And what does that mean? To me it means, that we have to fight for freedom even inour own minds. To think freely, to speak freely, instead of just believing what
everyone else---What is that noise?
(A phone has been ringing)
THEO
Thats my phone. (he listens) Oh, already? Ok! OKAY!! (he returns his phone to
his pocket) Sorry guys, its six oclock. My mom wants me home for dinner.
DUSTIN
Can I come? (he drops the spray bottle)
THEO
Sure. Come on, buddy.
ALL (ad lib)
Is it supper already? Im starved.
THEOWell, youre all invited, if you want to come.
(Theo exits, followed by everyone but Ruby and Jeremy. Ruby and Jeremy sit up andlook at each other.)
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Scene Thirteen: (3 performers)
Location: Street
Characters: Ruby, Jeremy
(Ruby and Jeremy are onstage, panting from the effort of their recent skirmish with
the zombie army.)
RUBY
That was close.
JEREMY
How did they get so organized?
RUBY
I dont think the antidote worked.
JEREMY
Those zombies are strong!
RUBY
(grabs the bottle of Zombie Backwash Soda from Jeremys hand.) Im beat. (she
takes a drink. Ruby transforms into a zombie throughout Jeremys next speech.)
JEREMY
(unaware of Rubys transformation) This is terrible. I dont know what to do. I
wasnt going to use this, but now that the antidotes a total failure, I dont see anyother way. I was raiding the Shopmart for supplies when I found this gun behind the
counter. (he pulls out a huge handgun) I smashed the glass and took it, along with
every bit of ammo I could find. I dont know if I have enough bullets to kill everyzombie on earth, but if worst comes to worst, I only need one. Are you disappointed
in me, Ruby?
RUBY
(fully zombified) Jeremy! Jeremy!
(Jeremy turns in surprise and fires the gun at Ruby. She drops to the ground.)
JEREMYGosh. That was close. (looks around) Ruby? Ruby, where are you?
RUBY
Jeremy the ant-
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JEREMY
Ruby, is that you? (he drops to his knees beside Ruby.) What happened?
RUBY
Aaargh.
JEREMY
You didnt drink the Zombie Backwash Soda, did you?
RUBY
Yaaargh.
JEREMY
Im so sorry. I didnt mean to shoot you. (Ruby goes limp) Im sorry, Ruby! I cant
believe I just shot my best friend. I cant take this anymore.
(Jeremy points the gun to his head. Ruby opens here eyes and clutches Jeremy, tryingto bite him.)
JEREMY
Aagh! Youre alive. (He leaps to his feet and backs away, pointing the gun at Ruby.
RUBY
Aaarm.
JEREMY
Im sorry, Ruby. I didnt mean to just shoot your arm.
RUBY
Aahoww!
JEREMY
Im a terrible shot, I know.
RUBYAntidhhhl
JEREMYDont come any closer.
RUBY(pointing to the spray bottle on the ground behind Jeremy) Ahuuuh.
JEREMYOh, the antidote! Im so stupid. But Ruby, it doesnt work, remember?
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RUBY
(points at herself) Aaaah.
JEREMY
I guess I can try. (He sprays Ruby full in the face, over and over.)
RUBY
Ow!
(Sarah runs on)
SARAH
Jeremy, what happened?
JEREMYYour stupid antidote didnt work, thats what.
SARAHYoure the stupid one! You took my bottle of window cleaner! Does this look like
zombie antidote to you?
JEREMY
I thought you were reusing the bottle you know, reduce, reuse, recycle?
SARAH(pulls out a tiny test tube) THIS is the real antidote! I call it super-concentrated
micro-sporean anti-zombifying
JEREMY
(grabs the test tube) Whatever. Just give it here. Come on, Ruby. Drink. (he pours
every drop between Rubys lips, and gives the test tube back to Sarah. Ruby wakesup and weeps. Jeremy holds her close and rocks her.) Thank god.
(a shout is heard)
SARAH
(looking downstage, over the audience) Theyre coming.
JEREMY
(dragging Ruby to her feet and lurching to the right) This way come on!
SARAH
Oh no, theyre there! (points offstage left) That bus over there! Move!
(Sarah supports Ruby and leads the way. Jeremy pulls out his gun and follows.)
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Scene Fourteen: (3 main roles plus zombies)
Location: A school bus, just before dawn.
Characters: Ruby, Jeremy, Sarah, and zombies
(Ruby, sits in the front passenger seat of a school bus, catatonic, rocking and
drooling. Sarah is behind the wheel. Jeremy enters and plops down on the seatacross the aisle from Ruby.)
JEREMYThat was close. Go!
SARAH(Starting to drive) You left the back door open.
JEREMYI didnt come in the back door.
SARAH
Go close it, ok?
(Jeremy rises to close the door. Zombies pop up from all the seats the bus is full of
them.)
JEREMY
Ahh! Ladies, we are not alone.
SARAH
Great. (She turns sharply to the left the zombies go crashing into the right side of
the bus.)
JEREMY
Where are we going? (silence from Sarah) Where?
SARAH
Millers Pond.
JEREMYWhy? Just give them some antidote.
SARAH
There isnt any! You gave it all to Ruby.
RUBY
(barely above a moan) Yay.
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JEREMYThat was all you had?
SARAH
I didnt know you were going to waste it it only takes a drop!
JEREMYWhy didnt you tell me?
SARAHWhat do you think super-concentrated means?
JEREMY
Whats at Millers Pond, Sarah?
SARAHWater.
JEREMY
Water. Good! Lets drown ourselves!
ZOMBIES
(ad lib) Hey! Grrr! Dont do that!
SARAH
Millers Pond provides the whole town with water. There are just a few drops of
antidote left. If I put it in the reservoir, it might be enough to cure everyone whodrinks.
JEREMYWhen is the last time you saw a zombie enjoying a nice tall glass of tap water?
SARAH
Trust me. (a sharp turn to the right zombies crash left and roar with anger) Cantyou distract them a little? Try telling them a joke or something.
JEREMYHey, do you guys know this one?
Ninety-nine bottles of brains on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of brains.
ZOMBIES and JEREMY
You take one down, pass it around, Ninety-eight bottles of brains on the wall.
JEREMY
Thats it now everyone sit down. Thats right.
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JEREMY and ZOMBIES
Ninety-six bottles of brainsYou take one down, pass it around,
Ninety-five bottles of brains on the wall.
(Sarah breaks through. She opens the test tube, shakes a few drops into the water,and tosses in the empty tube. There is a sudden shaking and cracking. The singing
stops. The zombies scream.)
SARAH
(coming back onto the bus) Its done. Now we wait.
JEREMY
Keep going! One more verse!
Ninety-five bottles of brains on the wall.
(Suddenly there is a creaking sound, and the whole bus wobbles and tilts to the left.Everyone on the bus piles up on the left side. Jeremy gets shakily to his feet andclimbs up to the open passenger door on the right, dragging Sarah and Ruby with
him.)
JEREMY
Time to go.
RUBYAaaahm( pulls out of Jeremys grip)
JEREMYCome on, Ruby, this is our last chance to get off. Its going down.
RUBYIm not going anywhere! (Ruby shoves Sarah and Jeremy out, then climbs into the
drivers seat. She closes the door and traps them outside.) Go! NOW!!!
(Sarah and Jeremy run for shore. Ruby kicks the bus into gear and starts driving itaround in circles until it finally breaks through the ice and disappears into the deep
water of the reservoir. Jeremy and Sarah watch it sink.)
JEREMY
Ill tell you this much I wont be drinking the water any time soon.
(Jeremy and Sarah watch the bubbling waters of the reservoir become still again.)
THE END.