At the wedding reception, she begins flirting with old boyfriends, and when Josh catches Becca in the arms of one of them, they argue. She leaves the reception and is attacked outside the church. Josh comes to her rescue but is stabbed in the process. As he dies in her arms, he tells her that he did it all for her and because he loves her. Did you guess it yet? It is an allegory of Christ and the church. In the final scene, Josh comes back from the dead to take his bride away.
10 actors (6 males and 4 females, plus extras) About 45 mins. in length.
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
JOSHUA: (Josh) A young Christian man who falls immediately in love with Rebecca. His love is genuine and unconditional, like Christ’s for us.
REBECCA: (Becca) Her past life of sin still has a hold on her even after she gets saved. She never feels that she can be good enough for him, and has much doubt in their relationship
DAD: Josh’s wise father, who gives good advice while granting his blessing.
WILL: An old boyfriend who tries to rekindle feelings in Becca at the wedding.
CHARLOTTE: A Christian friend of Becca’s from church
TAMMY: Another Christian friend
ERIC: An old boyfriend of Becca’s
JEFF: Another old boyfriend of Becca’s
LINDSAY: An old friend of Becca’s.
DARK STRANGER: An evil man who means to rape Becca.
Excerpt:
(Rebecca is sitting on a bench near a bus stop and looking upset…A
little mad and little emotional and hurt. Joshua enters and sees her
sitting there. He looks at his watch and looks down the street as
if to look for a bus. Rebecca pulls out her cell phone and pushes
some buttons and holds it up to her ear.)
REBECCA: Mark! What was I supposed to do? You never… (Pause)…
what? What? (Pause) You expect me to buy that? (Pause) No, I am
not through! You jerk! Don’t hang up on me! Don’t hang up on me…
you jerk! (She slams the cell phone closed in anger. She opens it
and tries redial, and finds it won’t work. She slams it closed again.)
Freak!
JOSHUA: (Looks over at her and wants to approach but hesitates.
Looks at his watch and then down the street again. Walks over to the
bench and sits down.) These buses are never on time are they?
REBECCA: (Coldly) I wouldn’t know.
JOSHUA: I’m sorry…I couldn’t help but overhearing. Sounded pretty
heavy.
REBECCA: There ain’t nuthin you can do about it, so I wouldn’t butt
in if I were you.
JOSHUA: Oh, no…I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to butt in. I just thought
if there was something I could do to help…
REBECCA: What is that? A pick-up line? You look for girls in
trouble and try to pick them up… is that it?
JOSHUA: Are you in trouble?
REBECCA: That ain’t none of your business!
JOSHUA: No. Of course it ain’t. I just saw you and I felt bad
that someone like you was so sad.
REBECCA: Someone like me. You don’t know the first thing about me,
mister!
JOSHUA: I know that the person on the other end of that phone hurt
you.
REBECCA: Hah. You get an A. I suppose that wasn’t too hard to
figure out.
JOSHUA: I also know that you don’t have a car.
REBECCA: What?
JOSHUA: You’re sitting on a bench near a bus stop and it is getting
dark. I would guess that you are waiting for the bus.
REBECCA: My…aren’t you the smart one! Don’t look like you got
wheels either.
JOSHUA: My car’s in the shop. I had to take the bus today.
REBECCA: So ridin the bus ain’t your thing?
JOSHUA: Not too much.
REBECCA: I guess that explains it.
JOSHUA: What?
REBECCA: Most people don’t talk to each other at the bus stop.
It’s sort of an unwritten code. You don’t talk to strangers. Unless
you need to know the time and wonder if the bus has come by or not…
nobody talks.
JOSHUA: Kind of sad though…don’t you think? Talking makes the time
go by so much faster and you can meet some real interesting people.
Maybe you can even help someone get through something.
REBECCA: Maybe you should become a bus stop psychiatrist.
JOSHUA: (Laughs) I don’t think there is very much money in it.
REBECCA: You never know. (She gets up and walks out to the street
and looks up the street)
JOSHUA: So do you ride the bus a lot?
REBECCA: I thought we weren’t going to talk anymore. You know…
strangers?
JOSHUA: Well, I can take care of that. My name is Josh. (Sticks
out his hand to shake hers. She looks at his hand and then looks at
him and then turns away.)
REBECCA: I don’t think so.
JOSHUA: No… really! My name is Josh. Well, that’s short for Joshua.
REBECCA: No kidding. I meant…I don’t think I will be telling you my
name.
JOSHUA: Oh. I understand. That’s okay.
REBECCA: Somehow I don’t think you do. I just want to sit and be
quiet and wait for my bus.
JOSHUA: No problem. I’m sorry I bothered you. (They both sit quietly
not looking at each other. After a long pause…)
REBECCA: Becca.
JOSHUA: I beg your pardon?
REBECCA: That’s short for RE-becca. You know… like the Sunny Brook
Farm?!
JOSHUA: Rebecca. Oh… that’s nice. I like that name.
REBECCA: Thanks. I guess.
JOSHUA: Well… now we’re not strangers.
REBECCA: Yeah… bosom buddies.
JOSHUA: You’re pretty funny… did you know that?
REBECCA: So I’ve been told. By a few. A real barrel of laughs.
At least you didn’t say…”you’re pretty”.
JOSHUA: Well, that would also be true… but I didn’t think I should
say that yet.
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