Curtain rises on a desert bus-stop halfway between Parched Gulch and Arid Plains.
Asteroid City (2023)
PLAYWRIGHT
A screenplay character in Asteroid City (2023).
- lines
- 39
- words
- 537
- scenes
- 4
- dialogue
- 5.3%
- avg words / line
- 14
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 45
Sample dialogue
One week later. Our cast of characters’ already tenuous grasp of reality has further slipped in quarantine, and the group begins to occupy a space of the most peculiar emotional dimensions. Meanwhile: the information blockade spearheaded by General Grif Gibson has been, it appears, incomplete...
scene 32, source scene 33 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. DAYCool and delicious.
scene 19, source scene 20 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. EVENINGThe action of the play takes place in September of 1955. Act I. Friday morning, 7am. Act II. The next day. Act III. One week later.
scene 1, source scene 2 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. EVENINGHow was it, by the way?
scene 19, source scene 20 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. EVENINGdeepest, dreamiest slumber of their lives as a result of their shared experience of a bewildering and bedazzling celestial mystery --
scene 32, source scene 33 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. DAY
Bookends
I’d like to make a scene where all my characters are each gently/privately seduced into the deepest, dreamiest slumber of their lives as a result of their shared experience of a bewildering and bedazzling celestial mystery...