Journey to the future

Journey to the future

Characters:
Lisa: 13 years old. Studies very well, knows a lot.
Aisha: 13 years old. Funny, good, friendly.
Jonas: 14 years old. Arrogant, funny, likes to command everyone, always right.
Alexander: 13,5 years old. Good, funny, always agrees with everything.
Mantau: the girl in the future and a classmate.
Tauman: the girl in the future and a classmate.


Scene 1

In the forest .It is getting dark. Long shadows of the kids who are walking with
their bags.Dim red lights.

Lisa:
- I don‘t like walking-tours... (sad)
Alex:
- It‘s better that sitting with parents at home.
Aisha:
- I‘d better be at home
Jonas:
- Stop it. Better go faster because I think that we are lost! (Shouting. Angry)
Lisa:
- Oh my god! It can‘t be!!! (surprised)
Aisha:
- Now we‘re like in the serial ,,Lost“.
Jonas:
- Go right because I saw that they walked that way!
Alex:
- Why are you standing? Listen what Jonas just said. Let‘s go!
Lisa :
- Why do we have to go that way? Maybe they walked left...
Aisha:
- Or maybe straight? We have to decide.
(Draw lots)
Jonas:
- We won!
Aisha:
- Ok, you won.
Lisa:
- Let‘s go right... (sad)
Alex:
- You know, it‘s getting dark. Maybe we should put a tent here and make a fire.
Jonas :
- Ok girls, you go and find logs and we‘ll put tent. Ok?
Lisa and Aisha:
- Ok.
(Aisha and Lisa walking)
Lisa:
- Boys ordered us to find lops while they are putting tent.
Aisha:
- Yeah. It‘s not fair.
(While Lisa talking, Aisha sees the skeleton)
Aisha:
- Look.
(They come closer)
Lisa and Aisha:
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Aisha:
- What a hell is that?
Lisa:
- Oh my god! It‘s skeleton!
Aisha:
- Let‘s run and call boys here.
(They run to their camp and they are very winded)
Aisha:
- Silence! I saw a dead man!
Lisa:
- A skeleton!
Aisha:
- Better go faster out of this wood! I‘m so scarred!!!
Jonas :
- Coward! Ok let‘s go and see if it‘s true because I think that there‘s just something bad with their heads.
Alex:
- Yeah yeah...
Aisha:
- I‘m not lying! (says angry)
Lisa:
- Yeah, we‘re not lying!
Alex:
- Me and Jonas go first and walk after us.
Jonas :
- You see that? There is something white. I hope it‘s not skeleton.
Alex:
- Oh my god! It can‘t be!
Aisha:
- I think it was very strange person.
Jonas:
-Maybe he‘s from future?
Lisa:
- I‘d better go and make a fire.
Aisha:
- See you guys.
(Aisha goes too)
Alex:
- What to do with him? (shows at skeleton)
Jonas:
- What if we scare them at night? (laughing)
Alex:
- Ok. But we better go now until it got dark.
(They go to their camp)
Aisha:
- Where is the tent?
Alex:
- Teacher has it.
Lisa:
- So where we‘ll sleep?
Jonas:
- Around the fire, I guess.
(All sit around the fire)
(Birds sounds)
Lisa:
- Did you hear that?
Aisha:
- Yeah, I heard. It‘s getting very scary.
Alex:
- I‘ll never go to walking-tours in my life.
Jonas:
- You little children got scared of the bird???
Aisha:
- I want that the wolf bite your ass.
(Lisa laughs)
Alex:
- Better don‘t joke because a wolf will come with a bear to visit us.
Jonas:
- Let‘s sleep because in the morning we‘re going to find our friends.
Lisa:
- Why are you ordering us what to do?
Jonas:
- And do you have anything better to do Mis Lisa?
Lisa:
- No...
Jonas:
- Then shut up! (angry)
Aisha:
- Oh, if my phone worked, I would call teacher and she would find us.
(Silence, everyone lies around the fire and tries to sleep)
(Plays wolf sound)
Jonas:
- Did you hear that?
Aisha:
- Now you‘re scarred.
Jonas:
- How to not be scarred if wolf is somewhere near us.
Aisha:
- Someone got scarred... Aren‘t you like a baby?
Alex:
- Shut up both of you! I want to sleep! (angry)
Lisa:
- What happened?(sleepy)
(Jonas walks around and can‘t sleep, Aisha gets up and walks near Jonas)
Jonas:
- Don‘t scare me!
Aisha:
- I‘m sorry that I talked to you unkindly.
Jonas:
- Go to sleep!
Aisha:
- Why are you so angry? I came to apologize and you‘re just shouting. (angry)
(Jonas doesn‘t say anything and then Aisha goes to sleep)



Scene 2

(Jonas goes and takes skeleton)
Jonas:
- Wake up!
(Alex, Lisa and Aisha stand up)
Aisha and Lisa:
- Are you crazy?
Alex:
- Put down that skeleton.
Jonas:
- Get up and let‘s start looking for our friends.
Lisa:
- It’s only 2 o‘clock in the morning. I want to sleep.
Alex:
- Yeah, me too.
Aisha:
- Wait. What‘s that?
(She shows at the skeletons hand)
Alex:
- I think it‘s some kind of... puzzle. We have to take it off the skeleton but I won‘t do this.
Aisha:
- I‘d better go eat breakfast.
Lisa:
- Yeah. I think we have to eat before going.
Jonas:
- I‘ll be the hero and take that puzzle.
Aisha:
- Look. There is a piece of paper.
Lisa:
- What is written here?
Aisha:
- It‘s like hieroglyphic.
Lisa:
- Maybe it‘s futures speech because I can understand some words.
Jonas:
- We have to solve the puzzle that all numbers be right. (Reads slowly, like first-former)
Aisha:
- Give us that. We‘ll solve this and you go decide what we‘ll eat.
Lisa:
- And clean up the camp.
Alex:
- Just like always.
Jonas:
- It will pass half of day till they solve that.
(They eat some chocolate and clean the camp)



Scene 3

Jonas:
- Hey girls! It‘s 3 o‘clock. We have to go.
Aisha:
- It’s not that easy as you think.
Lisa:
- It will take 1 or even 3 hours till we transcribe this.
Alex:
- It‘s hopeless.
Jonas:
- Teacher told something about that when we were driving here but I can‘t remember. (thoughtful)
Alex:
- I remember! She told that man from the future came here and left the puzzle but no one knows where it is. And only 4 people which are very different with their character and mind can solve it. If they will do it like a team.
Lisa:
- We have to do this together.
Aisha:
- Oh my god...
(All start to solve it but Jonas gets bored quickly)
Jonas:
- I‘m tired of this. I can‘t do this anymore!
Alex:
- It‘s hopeless. Better start looking for our classmates.
Lisa:
- Give me that. I‘ll solve it.
Jonas:
- Why should I give you?
Lisa:
- I‘ll do it better than you.
Jonas:
- Really?
Lisa:
- Yes.
Jonas:
- Then catch it.
(He throws the puzzle and everything turns dark)


Scene 4

In a future building. The room with a table and a chest , some chairs. The screen for
showing slides.Darkness on the stage only some spotlights on the faces of the children.
When they open their eyes they see that they are in the new building in the future.

Lisa:
- You moron! Look what you‘ve done!
Aisha:
- Oh, my head. Everything is spinning around... Where are we?!
Alex:
- Are you ok? Are all of you ok?
Lisa:
- No, we‘re not. I don‘t know where are we. (angry)
(Jonas sees the window and walks near it)
Jonas:
- Hey guys! Look. (He is looking out the window)
(Aisha runs at Jonas)
Aisha:
- Is it wrong with my head or there are flying cars???
Alex:
- I think it‘s future...
Lisa:
- Jonas, what have you done? Look what happened because of you.
Jonas:
- Where is puzzle?
(Everyone look at Lisa)
Lisa:
- Hey, don‘t look at me like that! I didn‘t take it.
Aisha:
- Look it‘s peace of paper.
(Alex takes the paper from Aisha)
Alex:
- There is something drawn on it.
Lisa:
- Give me that! I always descramble things like that.
Jonas:
- Why do we always have to give you everything?
Lisa:
- And why do we always have to give you?
(Lisa and Jonas scuffle, shouting)
Jonas:
- Give it back!
Lisa:
- Shut up you fool!
Alex:
- Calm down.
(Jonas and Lisa doesn‘t hear anything and unripe the paper)
Lisa:
- Look what you‘ve done!
Jonas:
- It‘s not my fault. You did it!
Aisha:
- Shut up both of you. I have a headache.
Alex:
- We have to lay it together and maybe then we‘ll transcribe this.
Aisha:
- But there have to be another missing piece because this edge is ragged.
(Jonas, Aisha and Alex stand around the paper)
Jonas:
- Yeah. Look. There is a diamond or something.
Lisa:
- That‘s interesting. Show me that. (Lisa squeezes in between Jonas and Alex)
Jonas:
- Get off! (He pushes Lisa)
Alex:
- What are you doing? Are you totally stupid? I nearly unripped that paper!
Aisha:
- Lisa calm down.
Lisa:
- But he pushed me! (angry)
Jonas:
- Ok ok. Don‘t shout:
Aisha:
- I don‘t care who pushed who. It‘s our last hope! Don‘t you understand?
Jonas:
- Who made you my mother?
Aisha:
- Oh, just shut up.
(All trying to decide what to do. Suddenly Jonas sees the chest)
Jonas:
- Hey look. There is a chest.
(Lisa runs pushes Aisha and she falls down)
Aisha:
- Damn Lisa! It hurts.
(Alex walks near Aisha and helps her to stand up)
Alex:
- Are you ok?
Aisha:
- I think so...
Lisa:
- Stop flirting with each other and come here.
Alex:
- We‘re not flirting!!!(angry)
(They comes to help friends and Alex with Jonas trying to unlock the chest)
Jonas:
- It‘s hopeless. This box is too heavy.
Alex:
- We need a bar or rock.
(Aisha finds a rock and takes it)
Aisha:
- Is this rock ok?
Lisa:
- Show me.
(Jonas interrupts her)
Jonas:
- Give me.
(Aisha gives him a rock and he breaks the lock)
Alex:
- It was hard. (Dry up sweat)
(They see a gemstone)
(Aisha and Lisa talking farther)
Jonas:
- What a beauty.
Alex:
- Good souvenir to bring home.
Jonas:
- A half for me and half for you. We decided.
(Aisha comes near them and Lisa is still looking around)
Aisha:
- What are you talking about?
Jonas:
- No no. Nothing.
(Jonas looks at Alex and he subjoins)
Alex:
- Yeah. Nothing.
(Lisa comes)
Lisa:
- Guys... I think there is someone except us.
(Everyone is looking at the chest and nobody listen to Lisa)
Aisha:
- Isn‘t there a map or something?
Alex:
- I looked everywhere but there is nothing more except a gemstone.
Lisa:
- Hey!!! Do you hear me?! (shouting) I think there is someone except us.
Aisha:
- Did you say anything?
Jonas:
- She said something but so quietly that only rats heard her.
Lisa:
- Stop it!
Alex:
- Then say it because we don‘t have much time.
Lisa:
- I said that I heard something.
Aisha:
- Ok. Me and Lisa will go and look if there anyone else and you decide what to do now.
(Aisha and Lisa go to look around)
Jonas:
- Let’s look at the map. (Twiddles the map)
Alex:
- Don‘t you know how to look at the map?
(Then girls come back)
Alex:
- Did you see anything?
Aisha:
- No.
Lisa:
- Maybe I heard badly.
(Aisha looks at the map)
Aisha:
- Look, it‘s another diamond. You only have to go according this map and you‘ll find it.
Jonas:
- What are you talking about? I don‘t see any other diamond.
Alex:
- Aisha, are you crazy? There is only one diamond which we already have.
Lisa:
- Probably it‘s because of knock when I pushed her.
Aisha:
- I‘m okay!!! (angry) I think so...(easier)
(Alex turns to Jonas)
Alex:
- Do you see anything in this map?
Jonas:
- No.
Aisha:
- Then look more closely and you‘ll see. (angry)
Jonas:
- Better go and sleep because you going totally mad.
Alex:
- I‘ll go with her and you two try to find something.
Jonas: (turns to Lisa)
- Ok. I‘ll go right and you go left. Ok?
Lisa:
- Ok.
(Jonas and Lisa goes to backstage, searching for something while Aisha and Alex talking)
Aisha:
- Alex, I really saw another diamond. You have to believe me.
Alex:
- Ok ok. Go to sleep and I‘ll help them to search.
Aisha:
- No one believes me. Just like always... (sad)
Jonas:
- Hey guys! I think I found something!
(Aisha stands up, runs and pushes Alex)
Alex:
- Hey, Aisha. What happened to you?!
Aisha:
- What do you mean?
Alex:
- You always so calm. But now...
Aisha:
- Stop it... Better look at this. (Shows at the paper)
Lisa:
- It‘s missing piece of map.
Jonas:
- Look. It‘s another diamond.
Aisha:
- I told you!
Jonas:
- Ok ok. Better tell us where to find that diamond.
Alex:
- She needn‘t to do that because that diamond is moving.
Lisa:
- And it‘s coming near us!
Aisha:
- Maybe there really is something except us. Better hide somewhere.
(Everybody hides in the room)



Scene 5

The light on the stage.
Two strange girls come into the room. They are from future.
They came from the party.

Mantau:
- Fe, kažkokia nesąmonė. Visiškai nevykęs vakarėlis.
Tauman:
- Jo, tikrai.
Mantau throwing her bag.
- O kas gi čia dabar? Skrynia praverta.
Both coming to the box.
Mantau:
- Kieno tai?
Tauman:
- Hm, nežinau.
Lisa: (shouting, from the backstage)
- I told you that there is someone else.
Aisha:
- You stupid girl!!! Now they know that we‘re here.
(They turn computers on their hand)
Tauman:
- Did you hear that?
Mantau:
- Of course I did. That‘s why I changed my language.
Tauman:
- Let‘s search the room.
They start moving things without touching them.
They find Jonas.
Jonas:
- Oh my god. Help me!!!
All come to the room.
Tauman:
- Who are you? Where are you from?
Jonas:
- I’m from Kaunas.
Lisa:
- We are from Lithuania, stupid boy.
Aisha:
- Oh it seems we are from the past.
Alex:
- Yeah yeah seems from the past.
Mantau:
- Lithuania? Kaunas?
Tauman:
- Where is it?
She takes a map from her bag.
Aisha:
- Look, this is our country.
Alex:
- And Kaunas is here. (Shows on the map)
Mantau:
- lt's the same! Litwa here.
Tauman:
- And the same town - Kownas here.
Lisa:
- Litwa, Kownas?
Aisha:
- Are you serious?
Alex and Jonas:
- Wow... Kaunas in the future.
Tauman:
- So how did you come here? It‘s 2294 year.
Alex:
- We don't know what happened. We were lost in the forest... (thinking)
Lisa:
- Who knows what happened?
Aisha:
- lt was a big bang and...
Jonas:
- We are here you see.
Mantau:
- Oh, what are your names?
Jonas: (Shaking hands)
- Jonas, nice to meet you. My friend Aisha, Lisa and Alex.
Alex:
- And what are your names?
Tauman:
- My name is Tauman. And she is Mantau.
Lisa:
- Yeah, seems strange names.
Mantau:
- Would you like something to drink or to eat?
Mantau brings some tubes and gives each.
Mantau:
- Help yourself.
Jonas takes a bottle from the table and tries to drink, but there is only flour inside.
He spills it into the plate.
Jonas:
- OUU. What's that?
Aisha:
- l want to drink!
Mantau and Tauman come to her.
Mantau:
- Calm down, we'll give you something else.
Lisa:
- But there's no real water.
Alex:
- lt seems they drink flour.
Tauman:
- Yes, it's our drink.
They all start crying:
- We want home!
Lisa:
- We want to our school!
Alex:
- We want to find our families!
Jonas:
- Oh again those crying babies.
Aisha:
- Let's look at those instructions! We found something here.
Mantau:
- Oh I know.
Lisa:
- What do you know?
Tauman:
- That was our grand grandfather’s box. Once he travelled to the past. He promised to come back but he never did. Give me that instruction, I will try to read it.
Aisha:
- So it was his skeleton and puzzle in this forest...
Mantau:
- We‘ve never opened the box. lt was forbidden.
Alex:
- Why?
Tauman:
- lt's family secret.
Jonas:
- Give it to me. Give it, l'll try. (takes it from her)
Lisa:
- Give it to me!!! Stupid boy...
Alex:
- Calm down! Let's study it carefully.
All sit down around a paper.
Mantau:
- So it seems here is an instruction how to travel in time.
Tauman:
- Stand all together around the diamond join, your hands and say ,,Home sweet home“ 5 times.
They do it all together.
Aisha:
- lt doesn't work.
Mantau:
- Oops, sorry.
Tauman:
- Oh we need to put diamonds together first.
Jonas:
- But where is the second diamond.
Mantau:
- Here it is. (she takes the necklace off her neck and there is smaller diamond on it)
(They lay both of diamonds together on the floor)
(Music playing)
And they all say magic words again.
- Home sweet home, home sweet home, home sweet home...



Scene 6

When they say those words fifth time, light turns out. lt's darkness again. They are in the forest again.
The sun rises.


Aisha:
- We back home! (Happily)
Lisa:
- At last.
Alex:
- Yeah yeah seems at home. And lost again...
Jonas:
- Thanks God the sun rises.
Aisha:
- Let's look around, I think we'll find the way now.
Suddenly two girls from their class come.
Gabija: (Shouting)
- Where have you been?
Goda:
- We were looking for you all night long. And you‘re making jokes here.
Gabija:
- At last we found you.
Lisa:
- You won‘t believe us! We travelled to the future.
Goda:
- And so we don‘t. You must have been dreaming.
Alex:
- No no! It‘s true! We found the diamond teacher told us about.
Gabija:
- Ech, children stories...
Jonas:
- You‘re hopeless!..I think that everywhere is nice , but the place you live in is
always the best place for you.

They all start hugging and singing happily the song.
The lights turn slowly down.



The end

Written by Kaunas Radvilenai secondary school (Lithuania)
Goda Barilaite 7th form, Viktorija Kazlauskaite 7th form and Gintare Mickeviciute 6th form