Extremities Play Script Pdf Apr 2026

ACT III, SCENE 2 — The house-sitter’s bedroom. Marjorie has a new poker. The fire is lit.

End of play.

Then Maya saw the sticky note attached to the laptop frame. It read: “House-sitter: Maya. Blonde. Green jacket. Drives a Honda. Alone for ten days. Basement is soundproofed — old recording studio.” extremities play script pdf

In the driveway, she called 911. Then she opened the PDF on her phone one last time. The final page — the one that hadn’t printed on that lonely sheet in the printer tray — had a new handwritten note in the margin, dated three days before she arrived:

On day four, curiosity won. The locked study was an antique wooden door with a brass keyhole. Maya had once picked a lock in college for a prank. She grabbed a bobby pin from her bag. Two minutes later, the tumblers clicked. ACT III, SCENE 2 — The house-sitter’s bedroom

The police found a man in the basement. Not Robert. A man Robert had been keeping down there for two weeks. He was thin, terrified, and wearing a green jacket exactly like Maya’s.

The cat, a fat tabby named Albee, had already claimed her lap. Maya worked remotely, typing code into a laptop at the marble kitchen island. On the second day, she noticed the printer. It sat on a low shelf in the living room, its paper tray slightly ajar. She pulled out a single sheet. End of play

It was a script page. EXTREMITIES by William Mastrosimone — she recognized the title from a college theater class. But this wasn’t a standard PDF printout. Someone had marked it in red pen. The scene: a woman, Marjorie, holds a fireplace poker over a man who has tried to rape her. She has him trapped in a grate. He begs. She hesitates.