A DAY ON A TRAIN

TITLE : A DAY ON A TRAIN

 

LEVEL: 2   

CHARACTERS:   

STUDENT 1: A red -haired boy with freckles, naughty and noisy.   
STUDENT 2: A beautiful girl with a blue, nice dress and intelligent eyes.
STUDENT 3: A small boy. With glasses.
STUDENT 4: A girl with a big smile and curly, blond hair.
A STRANGE MAN: A young, strange man, wearing an old-fashioned hat and a coat. He feels alone and defeated.   
A WOMAN WITH GLASSES: A young woman, skinny, with glasses. Too worried about her job. She is working on her computer.   
JANE: A girl with a pony-tail, a skirt, and a big ring. She's just got married to Fran. Completely in love and happy (as Fran is).   
FRAN: An athletic young man, with jeans and t-shirt. He stares at his wife all the time (as Jane does).   
PEPA: An old lady, short, black hair and a sweet face. She is tired of the nonsense of her husband.   
PEPE: An old man, bold, with a red umbrella. He wants to be right about the weather, it's all that worries him, and, of course, he wants to annoy his wife.   
DAD: A middle-aged man with dark moustache. He doesn't want to go out that weekend, he knows that his family is out of control. His children wouldn't behave properly.   
MUM: A voluptuous woman, apricot skin, plain hair and dark brown eyes. She wants to go out, fed up with being at home all the time, taking care of their four children. She needs a break, a day out. Sometimes she feels embarrassed with her children's behaviour.   
CLIVE: A five-year-old boy with rosy cheeks. Naughty.   
PAUL: A twelve-year-old, with the hair messed up and bronze skin.   
THE TWINS: They are eight years old, curly hair and deep grey eyes.   
NARRATOR: A funny one.   


SINOPSIS:   

It's a weekend day,  a train wagon, we can see a six-member family, a strange man, a woman with glasses, an old couple , a just married one and some students. All of them seem to be so different, different ages , stages in life... they'll talk, they'll listen... each of them finding what is interesting in life and what does not have any importance... Sometimes they’ll recognise themselves in the past seeing the other passengers, in other cases they'll see themselves in the future!!! And without realising it they'll find they have something in common... LOVE!!!


SCENES:

SCENE 1: Inside a wagon, we can see all the characters, but the just married couple is the only one who talks. They whisper because they don't wish to be heard. After their tiny talk, the students begin to chat about exams.

SCENE 2: Time for the old couple, they are interrupted by the family while discussing about the weather. The children are noisy and the smallest one is very naughty. Again, the just-married couple ends the scene together with the students, feeling that they are over these silly and simple things of life (weather, kids, going out taking or not an umbrella...).   

SCENE 3: Suddenly the Strange Man wakes up, he has just missed his stop, he shouts and then... the Lady with Glasses begins to insult him. They both argue for a while just to find out that they like each other (thanks to Jane).

SCENE 4: Thanks to this mix-up, the old couple remembers what to feel in love is, just like they did some time ago. So do the middle-aged one. The just married one feel that they did something really good and the students think that everyone gets crazy. End.