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Complete Game.5.4.19 COMPLETE GAME A Play in Nine Innings by Mark Liebert Mark Liebert 69 Fairway Avenue Verona, NJ 07044 201-207-4785 [email protected] Copyright by the author 2019 WARM UP PITCH: CASEY AT THE BAT, Sunday 9/26/20 FIRST INNING: NO JOY IN MUDVILLE, Friday 9/25/70 SECOND INNING: CRUNCH TIME, Saturday afternoon 9/26/70 THIRD INNING: TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME, Saturday evening 9/26/70 FOURTH INNING: PITCHING IN THE MIRROR, Saturday 10/3/70 FIFTH INNING: FATHER AND SON GAME, Sunday 10/4/70 SIXTH INNING: TURNING TWO, Saturday 10/17/70 SEVENTH INNING: IT'S A STRETCH, Saturday 10/24/70 EIGHTH INNING: TIE GAME, Sunday 11/8/18 NINTH INNING: THE CLOSER, Sunday 11/8/18 SETTING TIME: The fall of 1970 PLACE: 5 different locations in metropolitan NYC PRODUCTION NOTES All scenes use a couch, chair, coffee table, end table and tv rearranged to depict the five different locations. the tv may be real or imagined. additional pieces may be used, but not to the detriment of keeping the scene changes quick and interrupting the flow. It can be performed with or without an intermission. If you choose to use an intermission it should come between the fifth and sixth innings. CAST OF CHARACTERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) CASEY O'NEILL: MALE, 78, OF "CASEY AT THE BAT" FAME STASH JENGLESKI: MALE, 84, THE PITCHER WHO STRUCK HIM OUT MAX: MALE, 57, AN OBSESSIVE BASEBALL FAN SARAH: FEMALE, 51, MAX'S WIFE ALI: FEMALE, 28 JESS: FEMALE, 28, ALI'S BEST FRIEND JAKE: MALE, 50 TILLIE: FEMALE, 78, JAKE'S MOTHER SAUL: MALE, 90, A RESIDENT OF A NURSING HOME WITH DEMENTIA CHUCK: MALE, 58, SAUL'S SON SANDY: MALE, 30 COMPLETE GAME: WARM UP PITCH “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is heard, the silhouette lights come up as the song ends. The stage is bare or it can be done behind a scrim. It is September 26, 1920. JENGLESKI is a silhouetted figure on stage left. He is wearing a 1920 style baseball cap and has a ball and glove of similar era. The CROWD is in silhouette center stage and create the sounds indicated in the poem. The UMPIRE is in silhouette stage right. They all act out the poem as it comes through the speakers. CASEY enters stage right in silhouette with a baseball bat VOICE OVER There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile lit Casey's face. And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt. Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt. Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, Defiance flashed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip. And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air, And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there. Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped — 2. CASEY That ain’t my style VOICE OVER Said Casey UMPIRE Strike one! VOICE OVER The umpire said. From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore; CROWD Kill him! Kill the umpire! VOICE OVER Shouted some one on the stand; And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand. With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone; He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on; He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the dun sphere flew; But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said UMPIRE Strike two! CROWD Fraud! VOICE OVER Cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered 3. CROWD Fraud! VOICE OVER But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. The sneer has fled from Casey's lip, the teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out. FADE TO BLACK. 4. COMPLETE GAME: FIRST INNING, NO JOY IN MUDVILLE "The Tonight Show" theme music is heard. It is Friday, September 25 1970. The greenroom of a late night talk show in NYC (The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson). There is a couch and a chair with a table in front of the couch with a bowl of fruit. The lights come up just enough to discover two silhouetted figures one sitting on a couch one standing at the opposite end of the stage, they are frozen in time. As the lights come up full JENGLESKI is sitting at the far end of the couch. CASEY is wandering uncomfortably around the opposite end of the room. They are dressed in their best but it is worn and out of style, JENGLESKI wears a tie, CASEY does not. There is a tension in the air. JENGLESKI picks an apple out of the bowl and starts rubbing it up like a baseball and then starts to grip it as if to throw different pitches. CASEY is growing more annoyed. VOICE THROUGH THE SPEAKER Mr. Casey, Mr. Jengleski ten minutes. They look at each other briefly and then CASEY continues to move restlessly. JENGLESKI Why don't you just sit down and relax some. CASEY (glaring) Why don't you just shut the fuck up. 5. JENGLESKI It ain't like we ain't done this before. I know it's been 10 years, but.... Are you scared? CASEY I'm not scared. JENGLESKI I think you is. Is that why you canceled all those other appearances with me? Cost me a bunch a money I really could a used. The mighty Casey is a nervous Nelly. CASEY I'm not nervous now and wasn't nervous then. In fact, I've never been nervous. JENGLESKI Well, shoot, I'm nervous. And I ‘spect I'll be scared outa my wits every time they stick a microphone in my face over the next four weeks. So, I figure you're scared as me. CASEY I've never been scared and I'm not going start now. And if you don't cut the shit I'm going to give something to really be scared of! JENGLESKI You don't gotta go nuts on me..... I 'preciate you doin' this. CASEY I've got nothing else to do. JENGLESKI Still, twenty cities in thirty days... I can't thank you enough. CASEY I'm not doing it for you, so you don't have to thank me at all. 6. ANNOUNCER (from monitor in the green room) Coming up we have the Mighty Casey and Stash Jengleski on the fiftieth anniversary of the "The strike out heard round the world". JENGLESKI Can you believe it's been fifty years? CASEY Fifty long fucking years. I never expected to live this long. JENGLESKI There's somethin' we got in common. Never figured I'd make it much past fifty, 'specially after Ellie died. CASEY Who the fuck was Ellie? Your cat? JENGLESKI My wife. Breast cancer. She was 48. CASEY Sorry. JENGLESKI Me too. Couldn't do nothin' to help her. Just kinda held her 'til the end. Then she was gone. Her life was over and pretty much mine too. CASEY Boo hoo. (there is a long pause) Sorry. 7. JENGLESKI You're married ain't ya? Kids? CASEY Do we have to talk about this? JENGLESKI We don't gotta talk at all. Never have before. Don't gotta start now... Just thought 'cause we gonna be spendin' some time together... CASEY (To himself) Fuck me. JENGLESKI Not what I had in mind... Just a little gab to pass the time. Got kids? ... Course if you don't wanna talk, you don't gotta. 'Til we go out there o' course. We'd look pretty dumb if we went out there an didn't talk. It's a talk show after all. Gotta talk. Course I'm kinda dumb anyway... CASEY Are you going to just keep running your mouth? JENGLESKI Don't gotta... Got any kids? ... Hm? Do ya? CASEY Yes, I have two kids. A daughter who hates me and doesn't talk to me and a son who hates me, but talks to me just to remind me of what a failure I was as a father. There happy? JENGLESKI Nope. None o' my business anywho. 8. CASEY Damn straight. JENGLESKI After Ellie died, I just couldn't see myself with no one else, so I never got hitched again. How 'bout you, still married? CASEY No, I'm not still married. She gave me so many fucking chances, but I kept falling off the wagon. She finally got smart and said enough was enough and got a lawyer. JENGLESKI That's rough. CASEY I made my bed..
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