Department of Theatre and Film

Publishing notable screenplays by promising authors and filmmakers has long been part of The Projector's mission; the screenplays in this issue represent another step in that process...

A beat-up 1985 Celebrity Oldsmobile pulls into the parking lot with a nasty ROAR from the muffler, parks. BENNY O’BREIN, a tall clean-cut athletic young man in his early twenties, steps out of the car. He wears the required uniform for a sales clerk: black slacks and a dark-green polo shirt. His name tag dangles from his chest. He walks to the store carrying a white T-shirt...

INT. BEDROOM, RUN DOWN HOUSE, COLLEGE TOWN- NIGHT, FALL The room is cluttered with sheet music, books, music magazines, guitar, tennis shoes and other guy's clothes. LYDIA, a young woman with brown hair, stylish jeans, and nice black top rests on the bed. There are tears in her eyes....

The Oakley family is in their kitchen preparing for the day. RENEE, a middle aged woman with mousy hair and a sweater vest, stands at the kitchen counter making coffee and tidying. A teenage boy, WES, with shaggy brown hair, a t-shirt, and thick rimmed glasses, eats toast while he crams books into his backpack. SCOTT, middle aged with salt and pepper hair and a business suit enters holding a brief case. He kisses Renee on the cheek....