Sample Script - The Lost Key
Title: The Lost Key
Characters:
• JASON: A confident and calm friend, trying to stay patient.
• KATE: Easily flustered and anxious when things go wrong.
Scene 1:
(A small, cluttered living room. JASON and KATE are looking around, searching for something.
KATE is frantically pulling cushions off the couch while JASON calmly looks under the table.)
KATE: (panicking) I swear I had it right here! How could I lose the key, Jason? We’re locked out
of the house now!
JASON: (calmly) Kate, relax. Let’s think this through. Where did you last see it?
KATE: (frustrated) I don’t know! I was rushing because we’re late for the movie. What if it fell in
the street?
(JASON straightens up and looks at KATE calmly.)
JASON: (thinking) No, we didn’t hear anything drop outside. It has to be here somewhere.
Check your bag again.
KATE: (shaking her head) I’ve checked it five times already!
JASON: (grinning) One more time won’t hurt.
(KATE sighs and reluctantly rummages through her bag again, pulling out random items.)
KATE: (grumbling) Ugh, this is impossible. Why do these things always happen to me?
JASON: (laughs) It happens to everyone, Kate.
KATE: (sarcastically) Oh yeah, you lose your keys all the time, right?
(Suddenly, KATE freezes, her hand deep in the bag.)
KATE: (excited) Wait… I feel something!
JASON: (smiling) Told you.
(KATE pulls out the key, looking relieved and slightly embarrassed.)
KATE: (sheepishly) Found it…
JASON: (playfully) See? Crisis averted. Now, let’s go before we miss the previews.
(They both grab their things and head for the door. As they leave, KATE turns back for a second.)
KATE: (teasing) Next time, you carry the key.
JASON: (laughing) Deal.
(They exit, closing the door behind them.)