one-acts lines

Michael: I think I slept on dried cow sh.t again.

sing, then speak

Good morning, group six!

Cole: First chance I get, I'm running to the road, by sundown I'm in Vegas at the Sands drinking champagne

Not gonna happen, Cole.

SOPHIA. I don't know, I don't know.

You’re literally carrying rocks around? While we’re hiking?

TACO. Hey group three.

Three

SOPHIA: No

Is it to stabilise your shelter? Cuz there's like rocks everywhere.

SOPHIA: (Upset.) For no reason.

Are you okay?

writing letters, first line

What’s a synonym for “abandoned”

ELIZABETH. Um, "lost," "left with nothing," um, like, "devastated," uh, "screwed"?

Nice. Thanks. I’m just like using it so many times in this letter. What about “hopeless?”

ELIZABETH. Despairing, depressed, uh, dejected.

Cool. What's, um, do you know what that tree is over there is? 

ELIZABETH. It's just like a little pine tree, basically.

Cool

ELIZABETH. What's a way of saying "I miss you" but also "I hate you"?

Oh. Uh. I think just write that.

after standing on the wall

One of my good friends in grade six, she began a rumor about me and ended up not being my friend. I started off the year with a couple friends and I ended the year with not so many. She started a rumor that I was a lesbian actually. I was eleven years old. I didn't understand what that meant. I thought I was—I thought something was wrong with me so I, I didn't want to tell anyone, at the risk of not being accepted. That was a huge fear of mine. It's said that the, that human's greatest fear is rejection.

LOUISE. Carried you know all the weight of it, the world on her shoulders.

That's when I started; I began self-harming. It was a relief and something; it was a pain to focus on that wasn't in my head.

LOUISE: You see your kid sort of tormenting from the inside out and you're like what do I do.

Yeah it got, it got pretty bad. I saw no light at the end of the tunnel. I didn't see recovery. I didn't 'see me getting better. I didn't see a future.

ELIZABETH: I just want my socks.

I bet you turned them into the laundry.

ELIZABETH. I know I didn't turn any socks into the laundry.

Or maybe they're in your pack. Did you dump your pack?

ELIZABETH. I KNOW THEY'RE NOT IN MY PACK.

Well, I'm just saying, before you call it out, check your pack one more time. Or you can borrow some of mine.

BILLY. Elizabeth...

I just think maybe you should check your pack again. I'll totally help you.

3. Transport first line

I got gooned. That's when strangers come in the middle of the night and take you to Utah. 

ELIZABETH. I came voluntarily.

Transporting is actually not legal in Canada.

ELIZABETH: It was a super messed up place.

So my parents had to get me across the border to the States.

MICHAEL. My mom..... I mean she was really bad, she was really bad about hiding it.

My mom was having a big fiftieth birthday party and my parents told me that because everything is cheaper in the States we're going to go shopping...in the States.

DYLAN. The transporters came into my hospital room at about two thirty in the morning.

And yeah...I'd say it was pretty, pretty traumatizing to be honest. It was definitely a shake of my trust with my parents.

SOPHIA. We just stopped and I remember seeing a light up a hill and they're like that's your group.

Please don't do this to me.

SOPHIA: It was still not, it wasn't connecting.

Everything is fine.

SOPHIA. This is wrong. I'm not in the right place. Someone sent me to the wrong place.

We can figure this out.

SOPHIA. I tried to run my mom over with my car.

I cut so deep I lost blood, enough that I lost consciousness.

LOUISE: That's not easy for a sixteen-year-old.

If I can go back and change anything, I wouldn't change anything, even though it was really, really hard on the entire family. It was really hard on me. I think I have learned how to use my sensitivity positively and I think it, I look at it as a gift.