Play 234:…While You’re Waiting For Moments That Never Come

CHARACTERS
1
2

(1 is sitting on a bench in an otherwise empty stage.)

(2 enters, and sits down next to 1.)

(Pause.)

2
What are you doing here?

1
Waiting.

2
For what?

1
An epiphany.

2
An epiphany?

1
Yeah.

2
When’s it coming?

1
I don’t know.

2
You sure it is?

1
I hope so.

2
I doubt it will.

1
Why?

2
They never seem to.

1
I guess.

2
Life’s not about epiphanies.

1
Then what?

2
Evolution.

1
What?

2
Everything’s gradual.

1
But nothing’s gradually happening.

2
Sure it is.

1
Not for me.

2
It isn’t?

1
I don’t think so.

2
It probably is.

1
How do you know?

2
Guessing.

1
Well you’re wrong.

2
I doubt that.

1
Why?

2
No one ever thinks it is.

1
So?

2
So you probably just haven’t noticed.

1
Maybe.

(Pause.)

Well what’re you here for anyways?

2
Me?

1
Who else?

(Beat.)

2
Change.

1
Change?

2
Yeah.

(1 bursts into laughter.)

2
What?

(Blackout.)