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She Loves Pepsi
And He Drinks Coca-Cola

Altenir Silva

Story-line: On Christmas Eve, Paul and Chloe realize their differences.

 

SCENE ONE

 

An apartment in the West Village - NY. Paul (35) is face to face with Chloe (28). A suitcase lies on the floor.

 

PAUL

Chloe, you never liked Christmas!

 

CHLOE

What's wrong with going for New Year's Eve, Paul?

 

PAUL

But you hate the night.

 

CHLOE

And you the day.

 

PAUL

Sure.

 

CHLOE

You love beach... I love mountains. What's the matter? I love many things...

 

PAUL

Like art?

 

CHLOE

Yeah. I love art as you love sports.

 

PAUL

Your dream is traveling around the world, right?

 

CHLOE

And you don't want to leave New York.

 

PAUL

Is it the end?

 

CHLOE

Not for me… It's the beginning.

 

(Paul picks up the suitcase and when he is leaving.)

 

CHLOE

Merry Christmas.

 

PAUL

What?

 

CHLOE

Merry Christmas.

 

PAUL

Merry Christmas.

 

(Paul is leaving.)

 

CHLOE

Please, don't go!

 

(Paul stops.)

 

PAUL

Why, Chloe?

 

CHLOE

I don't know… just don't go.

 

(Paul drops the bag on the floor.)

 

CHLOE

I hate everything about you...

 

PAUL

Me too.

 

CHLOE

But without you, how am I going to hate all of that?

 

(Paul and Chloe kiss. We hear a Christmas song.)

 

(CURTAIN.)

 

END

 

 

Note:

 

This play was staged at Gi60, 2016 in June at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY. The cast: Katherine Harte DeCoux and Eugene Solfanelli.

 

It was broadcast as radio drama on KYRS 92.3 FM/88.1 FM (Spokane Radio Theatre), Spokane, WA, in July 8, 2012. Host: Noah Fredericks.

 

 

Link to watch the play on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/B0tK35uriuk

 

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Altenir Silva | Scene4 Magazine

Altenir Silva is a Brazilian playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, he won the Best Feature Screenplay at Prisma International Film Awards in Rome with The Sunrise Man (co-written with Ben Fiore, based on a story by director Werner Schumann). This screenplay was also nominated as a Top Finalist, 2017, Hollywood Hills Screenplay Awards, CA, US. In 2017 his short-play "Friendship" was published in "One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre" (Routledge UK). In 2014 he received the Award of Excellence from Shakespeare at The Burg Theatre Festival (Middleburg, VA) for the play "The Idea". In Brazil, he worked as a scriptwriter for several TV shows at Globo TV, Record TV, CNT TV. He also wrote the feature films "Belarmino & Gabriela" (2007), "The Salt of the Earth" (2008), "Japan Connection" (2008), "Curitiba Zero Degrees" (2010) and "Moses and The Ten Commandments" (2015). For more of his writings in Scene4, check the Archives.

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