The October People’s Choice goes to…….
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Christian Wilburn for his short play, THE SUPREME MART SALES SPOOKTACULAR , presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 21th 2019, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Congratulations, Christian!
Courtesy of Mr. Wilburn, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy!
The Supreme Mart Sales Spooktacular
by
Christian Wilburn
CHARACTER NAME BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Thomas: An overzealous manager.
Greg: A disillusioned employee.
Natalie: An employee that’s probably too invested.
Demon: Pretty standard demon. Does not appear physically. Presence fills the room.
The manager’s office of a the Danville Supreme-Mart. In it are the manager, Thomas, and a few of his employees.
THOMAS
Alright, I’m glad all of you could make it here early for this meeting of the Danville Supreme Mart leadership team.
GREG
You said we’d be fired if we didn’t.
THOMAS
Hahahahahaha. That is correct! Anywho… You all know how much I love this store. This branch. All of you are the most important people in my life. That’s why I want you to think about store as more than a store, and your coworkers as more than coworkers, we’re a family. And because you’re my family I brought you in today to help us strategize for the Supreme Mart October Sales Spooktacular: Savings so great it’s scary.
NATALIE
If we’re meeting about the Supreme-Mart-October-Sales-Spooktacular:-Savings-so-greatit’s- scary, then shouldn’t we wait for Mabel? She’s the assistant manager after all.
THOMAS
She is…In dispose…
He let’s out a sinister laugh.
GREG
Okay I’m just going to step over that…Don’t we get all our information on the sale–
THOMAS
The what?
GREG
The sale.
THOMAS
The what?
GREG
…Supreme Mart October Sales Spooktacular: Savings so great it’s scary.
THOMAS
Oh that? Yes. Sorry continue.
GREG
Don’t we get all the information on the Supreme-Mart-October-Sales-Spooktacular:- Savings-so-great-it’s-scary through corporate? What are we strategizing about?
THOMAS
Supreme Mart October Sales Spooktacular: Savings-so-great-it’s-scary Spirit Contest of course.
GREG
The what?
THOMAS
Oh right, you’re new. Well if you had read my newsletter, you would know this, but is the yearly tradition of all the Supreme Mart’s around the nation. Our branch, has placed second the last four years, to our neighbor and sworn enemy, Coryville.
NATALIE
Last year they had a seance in the middle of their store. The year before that, they staged a haunting where in the middle of the day they turned off the lights and locked the doors, and used the PA system to pretend to be a ghost. One lady had a heart attack, but it was totally worth it.
GREG
That’s kind of…
THOMAS
Genius, Greg. Diabolical Genius. Even worse than that. They don’t play fair. That’s right, sabotage. Every year something goes wrong for us, a wrench in our plan’s. I’m sure it’s them Greg. I’m positive.
GREG
It’s weird how that’s the only branch we lose to every year.
NATALIE
(Whisper) They’re the only other branch that cares.
THOMAS
So this year we’re going bigger and bolder, than ever before.
NATALIE
Oooo I can make spooky streamers!
GREG
How spooky we talking?
NATALIE
Like super spooky.
GREG
Super spooky streamers! We got this is in the bag! Are we done?
THOMAS
No! You think Spooky streamers are good enough to beat Coryville? Absolutely not! We are going above and beyond this year! We’re going to do something so spooky, that Coryville will never be able to top it…
GREG
Do you have something in mind?
THOMAS
Oh yes! Behold!
He pulls out the Necronomicon. It’s a big scary book that looks ancient. (Or maybe it’s super cheap looking that would also be funny).
THOMAS
The Necronomicon! The spell book that holds within it, all evil magic.
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