英语话剧剧本5人:似是而非(Yes Means No)

   
    COLLINS: Just... just thirteen, sir.
   
    TEDDY: (Taking C and dancing a step.) Thirteen, eh?
   
    COLLINS: But isn't that an unlucky number, sir?
   
    TEDDY: No! That makes fourteen! (Teddy crosses to desk R.) Well, that's a trip to California, anyway. (Phone rings. But this time Miss Collins gets it first.)
   
    COLLINS: Hullo? Just a second, please. (Now to Teddy in a whisper.) It's T. J. Morgan to see your father.
   
    TEDDY: No! COLLINS: Shall I tell him to come back?
   
    TEDDY: No!
   
    COLLINS: But he wants to know if he can see Mr. Lawson?
   
    TEDDY: Tell him NO! (Emphatically. Crosses R.)
   
    COLLINS: (Into phone.) No! (Hangs up.)
   
    TEDDY: (Enjoying it all immensely.) Add three more to the list. How many is that now? (Teddy crosses to desk L.) (At this point T. J. Morgan rushes into room unceremoniously.)
   
    MORGAN: What's the idea of telling me I can't see Lawson? Is he in? (Comes C as Teddy circles below him to R.)
   
    TEDDY: No! (Miss Collins keeps marking every "no.")
   
    MORGAN: (Turning to Miss Collins L.) Then who said Lawson wouldn't see me? Was it you? (Mill Collins starts to answer but Teddy butts in.)
   
    TEDDY: No! (Hoists a finger for Miss Collins to get the additional "no" on the record.)
   
    MORGAN: (Turning back to Teddy R.) Oh, then it was you?
   
    TEDDY: (Gulping.) No!
   
    MORGAN: (Confused.) Then who was it? Was there anybody else in the office?
   
    TEDDY: No!
   
    MORGAN: Can't you say anything but "NO-O-O!?"
   
    TEDDY: (Imitating his dragged out "No.") "NO-O-O!"
   
    MORGAN: (Waving his hand in disgust.) You're a silly ass... Will you deny that?
   
    TEDDY: For a hundred dollars?.. NO! (Signals Miss Collins to add it on the list.)
   
    MORGAN: You're impossible. You tell him that T. J. Morgan was here to see him about that lumber deal. He likes to make money the same as everybody, doesn't he?
   
    TEDDY: Why.. .er. . NO!
   
    MORGAN: What? (He shakes his finger in Teddy's face.)Do you mean to tell me he's not interested in that lumber deal any more? (Miss Collins tries to speak. Morgan turns to her quickly.) Were you going to say something?
   
    TEDDY: No.. She - she wasn't!
   
    MORGAN: What? He doesn't want to make a hundred thousand dollars?
   
    TEDDY: (Staggering a bit.) N-n-no.
   
    COLLINS: Mr. Lawson, don't you think you'd beffer explain?
   
    TEDDY: No! Keepwriting!!! (Crosses L to desk.)
   
    COLLINS: (Pleading.) But, sir.. you.. you...  TEDDY: (Emphatically pounding desk on each "no.") I said NO. And when I say NO...I mean NO!!! four more.. .put them down! (Turns back to Morgan, smiling.)
   
    MORGAN: Oh, I see, you're Lawson's son. He had you talk to me because he was afraid to face me himself. Well, there's only one reason for a man passing up a chance to make a hundred thousand dollars. He isn't a rich man at all, is he?
   
    TEDDY: Rich?.. .N'n'no!
   
    MORGAN: OH! He isn't, eh? I'll tend to him. He'll find out when he fools with T. J. Morgan he's fooling with fire. I'll show him.. I'll show him...(These last lines carry him off R.) (Teddy watches him as he goes and turns upstage, laughing convulsively. Leans on filing cabinet, back to audience.)
   
    COLLINS: (Rising and coming to him.) Oh, Mr. Lawson, you'll ruin your father. And after all he is your father, isn't he?
   
    TEDDY: No! (Still laughing.)

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