Casting Call for Theatre

'MARY' comes across as a christian reporter and she is seeking an interview with the two magicians, however, she knows their deadly and evil secret and she is using her interview to get closer to them and exposed and stop them. Below is an excerpt of the script:


Act 2 - Scene 6

Classical-style/victorian-style music/song starts playing. Scene opens/curtains rise on Mary and Michael sitting.
Mary; 'How long have you been performing magic?'

Michael; 'You could say I was around for the original Indian rope trick' (laughs to self)

Mary; (smirks) 'That long? What has kept and maintain the quality and mainstay of your show?'

Michael;I would say the fresh young blood that comes through my repetoire'

Mary; 'You referring to your assistants?'

Michael; Assistants, audience members,....reporters....'

Mary; (looks down at notes) 'What draws you to the art and craft of magic?'

Michael; 'You could say the mysterious....(gets intimate with her/closer)...the allure...the unknown aspect of it'

Mary; (feels the seduction tone from him) 'Does it afford you the possibility of possessing certain powers?'

Michael; 'I already have 'certain' powers, Mary'

Mary; 'Such as.....?'

Michael; 'I can turn into a wolf, a fog, a giant bat!'

Mary; 'Is this onstage or in your imagination?'

Michael; (laughs to self) 'How quaint and cute your questions are'

Mary; 'I try to be straight-forward'

Michael; 'And I appreciate that'

Mary; 'Do you use magic as a way of hiding, disguising something you know or are?'

Michael; 'No more than the way Christians use christianity or religion as a way of hiding their own fears, faults and frailities'

Mary 'That's a very bold assumption'

Michael; 'It's not an assumption. It's a fact'

Mary; 'Since we are on the topic of religion, have you ever practiced or infused black magic into your craft?'

Michael; 'I am black magic' (laughs)

Mary; 'How so?'

Michael; 'I am the antithesis of all things religion. I am what they, all of them fear for I am a propent of darkness itself and there is none against me'

Mary; (dramatic pause) 'You talk proud of this'

Michael; 'I am for which I have become'

Mary; 'And that is.....'

Michael; (moves in closer to her) 'Beyond light, beyond eternal, beyond life itself'

Mary; 'So, you mean the opposite of those things'

Michael; (pulls back and laughs) 'You are a sharp nail, aren't you?'

Mary; 'I believe in preparing for what I am facing'

Michael; (in her face) 'And what are you facing?'

Mary; (slowly backs away) 'Is it what you call magic or withcraft or......'

Michael; 'Could it be death you are facing?'

Mary; 'I dont' know. You tell me'

Michael; 'I will tell you this.....I sense a deep longing in your soul. There is a permanent saddness running through your spirit. You can't shake it. You tried but you can't.'

Mary; (sarcastically) 'Wow, maybe you should consider being a medium rather than a magician. I suppose you can rid me of this saddness'

Michael; (closer) 'I can offer you everlasting....life...no pain....no feeling....'

Mary; 'And no conscious'

Magician vampire

Magician vampire