Sample
Drama
This is what finished scripts should look like:
From page 131 of The Great Gatsby:
Setting: Hot Summer Day, A room in The Plaza Hotel
Gatsby: (to Tom)
I’ve got something to tell you, old sport.
Daisy:
(helplessly) Please don’t! Please let’s
all go home. Why don’t we all go home?
Nick:
(getting up) That’s a good idea. Come
on, Tom. Nobody wants a drink.
Tom: I want to know what Mr. Gatsby has to tell
me.
Gatsby: (to
Tom) Your wife doesn’t love you, she’s never loved you. She loves me.
Tom: You
must be crazy!
Gatsby springs to his feet, excited.
Gatsby: She
never loved you, do you hear? She only
married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart
she never loved any one except me!
Nick and Jordan try to leave, Tom and Gatsby stop
them.
Tom:
(fatherly) Sit down Daisy, What’s been going on? I want to hear all about it.
Gatsby: I’ve
told you what has been going on. Going
on for five years- and you didn’t know.
Tom turns to Daisy sharply
Tom: You’ve
been seeing this fellow for five years?
Gatsby: Not
seeing. No, we couldn’t meet. But both of
us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn’t know. I used to laugh sometimes to think that you
didn’t know.
Scene continues until the bottom of page 133….