An excerpt from

"RING TONE"
One Act Play
by Bruce Kane

(A man and woman, who might have been perfect for each other, meet at exactly the wrong time in their lives... or is it?)

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"RING TONE"
by Bruce Kane

WHERE: COFFEE SHOP

WHEN: NOW

WHO: Karen, thirty, attractive
Len, mid-thirties, nice looking,

AT RISE: Karen and Len are sitting back to back at adjoining tables. Karen is staring at the cell phone that sits on the table in front of her. Len is sipping a coffee and reading. Karen’s cell phone goes off to the theme from “Jaws.” She just stares at it until it stops ringing. After a few seconds it rings again. Karen continues staring. It stops ringing. Karen continues to stare. After a few moments it rings again, still to the theme from “Jaws.” Ken looks over, annoyed at the intrusion. Karen picks up the phone and turns to Ken.

KAREN: Excuse me.

LEN: Yes?

KAREN: Could you answer this for me?

LEN: Your phone?

KAREN: Yes, my phone.

LEN: You want me to answer your phone.

KAREN: That’s right… That’s what I said. Would you answer my phone?

(The phone stops ringing)

LEN: It stopped.

KAREN: Oh… Yeah… Well, thanks anyway.

LEN: Sure… No problem.

(They turn away from each other. Len goes back to his reading. Karen just stares at the phone. After a few moments we, again, hear the theme from “Jaws.” Karen turns to Len)

KAREN: It’s ringing again.

LEN: Excuse me?

KAREN: My phone… It’s ringing again.

LEN: “Jaws.”

KAREN: What?

LEN: You’re ringtone… It’s the music from “Jaws”

KAREN: Is that what it is?

LEN: That’s what it is.

KAREN: I just picked it because it sounded scary.

LEN: It was… Very scary.

KAREN: Could you answer it? You just push this button.

LEN: Is there some reason you can’t answer it.

KAREN: Yes… There is.

LEN: Would you care to tell me what it is? The reason you can’t answer your own phone.

KAREN: I’d rather not.

LEN: Me, too.

KAREN: Me, too… what?

LEN: I’d rather not answer your phone.
(Phone stops ringing)
Anyway, It stopped.

KAREN: He’ll call back.

LEN: If you say so.

KAREN: My ex.

LEN: Ex? Really? Then I definitely don’t want to answer your phone.

KAREN: He wants to get back.

LEN: I’m happy for you.

KAREN: I’m not.

LEN: Whatever you say.

KAREN: He was cheating on me.

LEN: I’m sorry to hear that.

KAREN: With another woman.

LEN: It happens.

KAREN: That’s why I left.

LEN: I can understand.

KAREN: What else could I do?

LEN: I don’t know.

KAREN: What would you have done?

LEN: If your ex was cheating on me?

KAREN: No.. If your girlfriend, wife, significant other, whatever… was sleeping with someone else?

LEN: She was.

KAREN: Oh.

LEN: Yeah… Right… Oh

KAREN: I’m sorry.

LEN: Not as sorry as I am.

(He goes back to reading his paper)

KAREN: What did you do?

LEN: About what?

KAREN: When you found out? What did you do?

LEN: Threw up in the ficus.

KAREN: I made it to the bathroom

LEN: I always said women were made of sturdier stuff.

(He turns away from her and goes back to his reading. She stares at her phone until it rings again)

KAREN: It’s ringing.

LEN: Yes, I know. “Jaws.”