英语话剧剧本：5人英语话剧剧本-Yes Means No(似是而非) 本文来自: 教客网剧本大全(http://www.daodoc.com/) 详细出处参考：http://www.daodoc.com/ Summary:
Teddy Lawson is going to marry Edith Merrill and he asks his father, Mr.Lawson, to finance his honeymoon.However, Teddy\'s father wants him to learn to say NO first because Teddy always says YES to everyone who makes a request.They make a deal that Mr.Lawson will give Teddy one hundred dollars for every time Teddy says NO in half an hour, but if Teddy says YES just once, Teddy forfeits every NO-Mr.Lawson\'s secretary, Mi Collins, will make the strict account of every NO.
In order to have a nice honeymoon, Teddy tries hard to carry out his father\'s orders and answer NO as many as poible to everything asked, even though he is running the risks of breaking his father\'s deal with T.J.Morgan and losing his own sweet heart--Edith Merrill...
TEDDY: (Coming to his father\'s desk L.)
Dad, there\'s something I want to tell you. LAWSON: Oh, is that so! What is it?
TEDDY: Well, Dad, I\'ve just proposed to Edith Merrill and she\'s accepted me.
LAWSON: Going to get married, eh? When do you intend doing this?
TEDDY: Right away.That\'s why I wanted to see you, and of course I know you\'ll finance the honeymoon.
LAWSON: Oh...I will, will I? (Pounds desk, rises and comes to Teddy C.) I\'ll tell you that I\'m ashamed of you.You haven\'t any backbone...you can\'t say NO! I left you in charge of my busine last week just to see how you\'d conduct it.And you did great.Ha!...If I\'d stayed away another week, you\'d have ruined me (Strolls up C.) TEDDY: I did the best I could!
LAWSON: Then you\'d make a fine busine man.(Coming down C.)The most eential thing in a busine man\'s life is to be able to say \"NO.\" At all times NO.Especially in a credit busine like mine.But you said YES to everyone who asked for extra time.(Takes a few steps L.)
TEDDY: But they always cried to me and I just couldn\'t say \"no.\"
LAWSON: Well, you\'ll learn to say \"no\" before I finance any honeymoon.(Lawson is below desk L.Phone rings, Lawson turns to his desk, grabs phone quickly and sits down.)Lawson talking...! (Listens a second.) NO!!!I...said...NO.(Listens again.)Then I\'ll foreclose.That\'s final..NO! (Lawson hangs up receiver.Turns to Teddy.)That\'s how I make my money..being able to say NO..NO..NO.(Pounds desk with each \"No!\" Rises and comes to Teddy C.) And that\'s the way I want my son to be before he shoulders the responsibility of marriage.
TEDDY: Well, give me another chance, Dad...and I\'ll try to make good. LAWSON: (He sneers the last Word and takes a stroll up C.) Do you mean it?
TEDDY: You bet I do
LAWSON: (Coming down L of Teddy.)
TEDDY: All right...I\'ll give you another chance.You want money for a honeymoon?...Very well! You take charge of this office while I go to lunch and I\'ll give you one hundred dollars for every time you say NO.
LAWSON: One hundred dollars?
TEDDY: Right! Do you think you can do it? LAWSON: I\'ll try.
TEDDY: (Croes R to Mi Collins.) Mi Collins, I want you to remain in this office with my son while I\'m gone.You can sit at my desk.(Mi Collins doesn\'t move immediately.) NOW!(She jumps and croes stage.)
COLLINS: Yes, sir!
LAWSON: (Croes L.) And I don\'t want you to leave it for a second.Understand? (Mi Collins nods.) And I want you to keep strict account of every time my son says NO.But remember, if he answers YES just once...he forfeits every \"NO.\" (Turning to Teddy.)Are you on? TEDDY: Yes.(He realizes what he has said and clasps hand over his mouth.)
LAWSON: (Croing R to door, taking coat and hat from hall-tree.) Very well.You\'ll be in charge here for one-half hour...(Looks at watch.) Now remember...not one \"Yes.\"...It must be \"NO\" to everything.(Lawson exits and slams door.) (Teddy stands for a second smiling.Phone rings, and he rushes acro stage to phone on desk L, and picking it up shouts into it.
TEDDY: NO..POSITIVELY NO! (Hangs up.Strolls acro stage, grinning at Mi Collins, who is amazed.) That\'s two...put them down.
COLLINS: (Writing.) Yes, sir.(Phone rings.Teddy grabs it again, while Mi Collins warns him to be careful.) You better hear who it is, sir.It may be important.
TEDDY: Hello? (Repeating what is said to him.) Is Mr.Lawson in? NO! Do I mind speaking for him? NO! What?...NO!
COLLINS: (Rising and pleading.) Don\'t you think you\'d better hang up, sir?
TEDDY: (To Mi Collins.) No.Put them all down...there were five of them.(Into phone.) No, no, no! (Raising three fingers to Mi Collins.) I wasn\'t talking to you...I was talking to Mr.Lawson\'s secretary.What? No! I should worry? No! (Hangs up.Laughing heartily at his results so far.) COLLINS: (Fearfully.) Aren\'t you going a little too far, sir?
TEDDY: No! There\'s another.Are you keeping strict account of them? (Croes to desk L.) How many are there?
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 croes to desk R.) Well, that\'s a trip to California, anyway.(Phone rings.But this time Mi 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.Croes R.)
COLLINS: (Into phone.) No! (Hangs up.)
TEDDY: (Enjoying it all immensely.) Add three more to the list.How many is that now? (Teddy croes 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! (Mi Collins keeps marking every \"no.\")
MORGAN: (Turning to Mi 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 Mi 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 a...Will you deny that? TEDDY: For a hundred dollars?..NO! (Signals Mi Collins to add it on the list.)
MORGAN: You\'re impoible.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? (Mi Collins tries to speak.Morgan turns to her quickly.) Were you going to say something? TEDDY: No..Shefifteen -
TEDDY: Don\'t skip any. COLLINS: Just forty-six, sir.
TEDDY: (Excitedly, taking stage.) Forty-six? Why, it\'ll be a trip around the world.I must make it an even fifty.(Offstage R, Lawson\'s voice is heard in warm argument.)
LAWSON: You just come in here with me.We\'ll see what this is all about.(He enters swiftly, followed by Edith and Mr.Morgan.They surround Teddy who has sneaked to C, half frightened.) Now Mi Merrill, ask him before me.
EDITH: (Half crying.) Didn\'t you tell me your father paid you to break off our engagement? TEDDY: NO! (She staggers back amazed.)
MORGAN: When I asked you about the lumber deal, what did you say? TEDDY: NO!
LAWSON: (Coming toward Teddy and shaking his fist.) Don\'t you know any better than that? TEDDY: NO! (Calling to Mi Collins on opposite side.) That makes fifty!!!
LAWSON: (Bewildered) What\'s the idea?
TEDDY: The idea is that I\'ve carried out your orders...I haven\'t said one...(Catches himself.) what you said not to say.
LAWSON: (Shaking fist in Teddy\'s face.) Do you think I\'m a complete idiot? TEDDY: No! (To Mi Collins.) There\'s another one...put it down.
LAWSON: (To Mi Collins.) Don\'t you DARE put that down.I\'ve had enough of this.
MORGAN: (Approaching Lawson L, and brushing Teddy aside.) I think I understand it all now.It was a joke.
LAWSON: Absolutely! (Going to door R with Morgan.) We\'ll talk it over at the club tonight.(Morgan exits R.) TEDDY: (Meeting his father C, and grasping his coat lapel.) Make a check for me...for five thousand dollars.Fifty \"No\'s,\" you know.
LAWSON: (Croing to desk L.) How could anyone say fifty \"No\'s\" in fifteen minutes?
Imagine what I could do in an hour.My middle name is Speed.
LAWSON: All right, I\'m the goat.I\'ll give you the check.Then use some of that speed in getting out of here.(He turns to desk L, and sees Mi Collins seated at it.) Well, what are you doing at my desk?
COLLINS: (Rising, frightened.) Why, you told me to sit here, sir.Shall I go to my own desk, sir? LAWSON: (Shouting.) YES! (Mi Collins croes R, to her own desk.) TEDDY: (Croing to his father\'s desk.) Did I hear you say YES?
LAWSON: NO! (Writes in checkbook.)
EDITH: (Coming to Teddy C.) Oh, Teddy, I see it all now.\"No\" meant \"Yes\"..when you said \"no.\"
TEDDY: \"No\"..\"Yes\"...wait...When I said \"No\"...when I said...I...(Conflised.) Oh, I only know we are going on a honeymoon.(They ki and embrace.)
LAWSON: (Rises with check in hand and comes C.) Here\'s your check.I made it out for ten thousand instead of five, because ten will take you farther away and keep you away longer.
TEDDY: (Taking check and looking at it.) Why, Dad! You\'re wonderful..you\'re marvelous..you\'re...(Changing tone.) IS IT GOOD? (Father swells with satisfaction on praise, but turns furiously on last line.) Well, come on, darling.Good-bye, Dad...(They both start for door R.) (Teddy catches hand of Edith who waits for him in door R, and they plunge off happily together.) (Lawson and Mi Collins stare after them, Mi Collins chuckling with delight.) The End
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