Why you always trying to take away my autonomy?
Drama scene for two from one-act eplay Lost Against the Alley, where Buck doesn’t want to go on a job interview wearing a tuxedo.
Featured Scene – Lost Against the Alley
BUCK: Can’t sleep.
ORLA: Waking me up.
BUCK: Go back to bed.
ORLA: Once I’m up, I’m up. (she notices whiskey glass on table). You on this again?
BUCK: What? (he sees what she sees) Oh.
ORLA: Don’t OH me, Buck. (imitating him) OH! OH!
BUCK: Figured I’d get sleepy from it.
ORLA: Sleepy, huh?
BUCK: Why don’t you go back to bed?
ORLA: I said I can’t!
BUCK: You can, but you won’t. Rather stir me up instead.
ORLA: You’ve no sense of responsibility. Who’s gonna pay for this child we’re havin’? Huh? Who?
BUCK: Who’d you think?
ORLA: Not by writing songs.
BUCK: Why you always trying to take away my autonomy? You get pleasure out a telling me such things, don’t ya? I can’t even have time alone to think!
ORLA: You’ve got the freedom to get your a** up and go on that job interview in a few hours. That’s freedom! Should be sleeping in bed, gettin’ rest, so you can look good and think good.
BUCK: I ain’t had a proper job interview in years.
ORLA: You’re goin’ on this interview, Buck.
BUCK: Never said I wasn’t goin’ on it.
ORLA (more intensely): You are goin’ on this job interview, Buck.
BUCK: I said, I know it.
ORLA: You better know it.
BUCK: I’m just sayin’.
ORLA: I’m not interested in what you’re just sayin’. I’m only interested in what you’re doin’.
BUCK: My suit ain’t even a suit.
ORLA: What’s wrong with the suit?
BUCK: It’s a tuxedo!
ORLA: …It is?
BUCK: Yeah.
ORLA: …So?
BUCK: I can’t be goin’ to no job interview wearing a tuxedo.
ORLA: That’s what my brother had in his closet and that’s what you’re wearing.
BUCK: Will look like a damn fool.
ORLA: Don’t matter.
BUCK: Might as well wear pajamas.
ORLA: Everybody starts somewhere and by wearing a tuxedo, it shows you cared to dress up and make an effort.
BUCK: I’m a clown.
ORLA: You ain’t no clown.
BUCK: I am.
ORLA: Just say you’re goin’ to a wedding after the interview.
BUCK: A wedding?
ORLA: Yeah, yeah, get creative, LIE BUCK, whatever you gotta do you do, just get WORK!
(beat)
BUCK: They ain’t gonna hire me.
ORLA: How d’you know?
BUCK: Never gone to school.
ORLA: Then why’d they pick you to interview?
BUCK: They have to do that. You know, people have to look like they’re doing their jobs.
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Scene Summary
In the one-act eplay Lost Against the Alley, Buck is trying to figure out a way to avoid his job interview because he feels that it’s pointless to even try going. His girlfriend Orla has a different point of view.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~5 minute scene
- Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
- Themes: interviews, work-related, jobs
- Best For: drama scenes
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Scene Source: Lost Against the Alley
Lost Against the Alley is a dramatic play script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
