Description
NUMBER OF PAGES: 26
CAST: 2 men, 2 women
GENRE: comedy
SYNOPSIS: The play “Apple on the Rooftop” is a symbolic drama/comedy. The play is set on the rooftop of a high rise building during a cold night. As the title suggests, the heroes gradually acquire certain knowledge. Everything seems nice and pleasant at first sight, but as the story unfolds, pain and suffering start to prevail.
The main characters of the play are high school students, two sixteen-year-old girls – Debbie and Alice – and their mutual friend, Jeffrey, who is in a higher grade at the same school. As if by chance, the girls meet on the rooftop. Debbie is unhappy because Jeffrey has broken up with her and Alice comforts her. So far, it’s all innocent and almost banal. The situation gets complicated when Jeffrey suddenly appears on the rooftop, too. Debbie is confused. Alice takes the initiative and stays alone with Jeffrey. At this moment we find out that Alice is playing a dirty game, because she starts flirting with Jeffrey. Then Debbie shows up. Jeffrey assures her of his love for her and Debbie is in seventh heaven. They make love.
However, the romantic moment does not last long and trouble is just around the corner. Primitive and psychopathic Jeffrey draws a letter that proves Alice’s fake game. Alice comes back on stage and is confronted with her lies. Alice confesses her conspiracy and intrigue with the intention of harming Debbie. Alice reveals that Debbie is the cause of her break up with Martin, and that she invented the whole plan with the intention of revenge. However, when she has gone through with her plan, Alice does not feel joy but great pain. Debbie’s anger turns against Jeffrey and after attacking him, Jeffrey turns evil and wants to throw the girls from the roof. Alice begs Debbie for forgiveness, and Debbie prays to God for salvation. At the moment when it seems that tragedy is inevitable, as Debbie is hanging from the edge of the roof and Jeffrey wants to knock her down, the strong voice of a teacher suddenly comes to the rescue of the girls.
Jeffrey calms down. Everything goes back to the innocent ways of school children: scolding, schoolwork, tutoring, and parents breathing down their necks. Finally, the three of them and the teacher leave home singing a song. They are small, carefree, misbehaving teenagers once again. The “mature“ game is over.
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