The Exorcism
Scene from Acting & Voice Studios collection. 12 lines, 4 characters.
Full Script
Clint: Inside the flames, we see dozens of human BONES and SKULLS. Clint kneels behind Atherton, terrified, holding a shaking cross at the surrounding Acolytes.
Elizabeth/Surtr: Ar var alda. Pat er eikk var. Var- a. Liars! Pedophiles! Cunt!
Atherton: You apostate angel, tremble before St. Michael the Archangel...
Elizabeth/Surtr: Nance catamite to a false god! Jotun of Muspell!
Atherton: Clint! Lend your voice! ...From the snares of the Devil!
Atherton: Deliver us O’ Lord!
Clint: Deliver us O’ Lord! Elizabeth seems to shrink, drawing back. Atherton advances on her--
Atherton: Cast into hell Satan and all other evil spirits! Elizabeth suddenly LURCHES forward, grabs Atherton, and whispers into his face:
Elizabeth/Surtr: Your god is dead your world is burnt and hell will swallow all. Elizabeth sucks his eyeball out. Atherton SCREAMS, doing a pretty good Oedipus. She turns him around and shoves him into motion towards the fire--
Elizabeth/Surtr: Go tell it on the mountain. Atherton stumbles forward and over the edge, tumbling into * the fire pit. He dies SCREAMING. *
Elizabeth/Surtr: Murder and lust and despair. Sin enough. Before her, in the center of the fire, a glaring BLACK TONGUE OF FLAME takes form. It grows, sucking light from the fire around it. Surtr/Elizabeth walks forward and cups Clint’s face in her * hands like a kind mother. *
Elizabeth/Surtr: The Gate is cracked. Send me more men of God. Goldenrod (mm/dd/yyyy) 2.