The January People’s Choice Award goes to…

The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Bailey Jordan Garcia for their play Good Bones; or The Writing Workshop of Brutus, Cassius, Casca, and Marc Antony on the Eulogy of Julius Caesar, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 9th live at the Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Bailey!

Courtesy of Bailey we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy!

Good Bones;
or
The Writing Workshop of
Brutus, Cassius, Casca, and Marc Antony
on the Eulogy of Julius Caesar
by
Bailey Jordan Garcia

Characters

Though these characters are based on older Roman men, please consider people of all genders/ethnicities for these roles.

BRUTUS
Caesar’s bestie / A leader of Caesar’s assassination. Very reminiscent of Kendall Roy from Succession (must be able to do six push ups).

CASSIUS
One of the leaders of Caesar’s assassination. In control, but also a bit neurotic.

CASCA
The first one to stab Caesar. A little, um, off … (must have good comedic timing).

ANTONY
A good friend of Caesar’s / Political Opportunist. Good at pretending to be a cool and quirky friend (must have experience with Shakespeare).

Time
44 B.C.

Place
Ides of March

AT RISE:

IDES OF MARCH, ROME

Loud, agonizing, and painful screams come from an unseen man being stabbed.

CAESAR (OFF)

Et tu, Brute? — Then fall, Caesar!

Unseen, we hear CAESAR’s body thud.

CASSIUS (OFF)

Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!

CASCA (OFF)

Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets!

BRUTUS, filled with a million conflicting emotions, enters and begins pacing, completely lost in thought.

CASSIUS (OFF)

Go to the pulpit, Brutus!

BRUTUS

Yeah, just give me a sec!

CASCA (carrying a knife) bounces in — absolutley fired up, followed by a cool, confident CASSIUS.

CASCA
CASSIUS
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Mission accomplished.
Knife drop!
CASCA drops his knife “mic drop” style.

CASSIUS

And it was all thanks to dear old Brutus. Choosing his country over his best friend — some real badass shit, man.

CASCA

I was the first stab, you see that? He was all like “Brutus, you gonna kneel before me, bro?” And I was like “Not today, bitch.” Did some sweet moves I learned from my gladiator training. BOOM — LEFT HOOK. BAM — RIGHT HOOK. HA-CHA — KNIFE STAB. . I gott’em right in the stomach. You see me do that, Brutus

BRUTUS
(in a daze)

I just killed Caesar.

CASSIUS

I mean, it was a group effort — but now’s not the time for semantics. There is a large crowd out there who just witnessed their leader get stabbed to death and are waiting to hear what’s to come of it. And being the ones who did the said stabbing, I think, maybe, it might be beneficial to, you know, control the narrative on this one.

BRUTUS

You want us to, what, give a speech, or —

CASSIUS

Something like that. A final resolution to this dictatorship. Something to calm the crowd, put their mind at ease, you know? The last thing we want right now is a riot on our hands.

MARC ANTONY (saunters in).

BRUTUS

But what do I — what do I even say // to try to connect —

CASSIUS
CASCA
Marc, my man!
ANTHONY! What up, what up?

ANTONY

Hey pals. What’s the haps? What’s going on?

BRUTUS
CASSIUS

We just killed Caesar.

Nothing much. Oh RIGHT, we did just
kill Caesar. I knew I was forgetting something!

ANTONY

You guys didn’t actually… Oh my god, you went through with it. You killed Caesar.

CASCA
(cheerily)

It was SO bloody!! 

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