The Beach Hut one act play script

ONE ACT PLAYS

THE BEACH HUT
A black comedy set on the beach at Scarborough, a sequel to Mark Rees’ teenage comedy “It’s Only Make Believe”. It features the same two characters Geoff and Vera, who return to Scarborough after forty years of marriage.

Plot summary
Vera and Geoffrey, now sixty five years old, have been coming to Scarborough for forty years and rented the same beach chalet for twenty years. However, their love for each other which bloomed in the Fifties has long since faded, and both of them have come this last time to Scarborough to do something about it. Something drastic ...
ISBN 1 904930 78 6

CAST 1 MAN 1 WOMAN
Vera, 65 years old
Geoff, her husband, 65 years old

SET - a beach hut on the front at Scarborough
TIME - 2005
DURATION - approx. 40 minutes

Script Sample - At the seaside

Vera and Geoff are sitting on deckchairs in front of the beach hut

Vera Look at that sea, Geoffrey, it’s as calm as you like. Looks like a millpond.
Geoff I don’t think I’ve ever seen it as calm.
Vera I might even dip my toes in later on.
Geoff You should.
Vera Later on, though, when it’s warmed up a bit.
Geoff Let the sun get at it for a while, it’ll warm up a treat.
Vera We’ve been lucky with the weather.
Geoff We have, hardly a cloud in the sky.
Vera We’re always lucky with the weather, every year we come here; it’s nearly always dry.
Geoff Except for nineteen seventy-four, it rained the whole fortnight!
Vera You’re wrong Geoffrey, that was nineteen seventy-five.
Geoff Were it?
Vera It was. Don’t you remember? Nineteen seventy-four was the year you started entering the sandcastle competition. You came third. And the next year was completely washed out.
Geoff You’re right, Vera. I had forgotten. That really was my best year in the sandcastle competition too. Never been that high since. That was the year I did the Houses of Parliament. Only seems like yesterday.

Pause

Vera You’ll try again this year?
Geoff I think so. I was thinking about doing Buckingham Palace.

Pause

Vera Or there’s Windsor Castle.
Geoff Hadn’t thought of that.
Vera Not very easy, mind.
Geoff You know me, I love a challenge!
Vera I know, Geoffrey, I know.
Geoff I’ll sleep on it tonight. Don’t need to make a decision until Friday. Vera Quite right. You don’t want to make the wrong decision. Look what happened last year.
Geoff Don’t remind me! That little brat running over the top of my “Acropolis” just before the judges came around. He destroyed it.
Vera He was only five.
Geoff It’s a sad indictment of the attitude of today’s youth! He was a hooligan who should have known better. I blame his parents!
Vera I think it was a mistake to hit him though.
Geoff It was what he deserved. Anyway, that constable said he sympathised with me.
Vera You were lucky to get off with a caution.
Geoff I suppose so.

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