Football Romeo - Act One Scene Five Lines

Question 1

Line 1
(After “I’m not afraid of nothing.”)

Answer 1

“Anything, Rick. I’m not afraid of anything. If you’re going to
be a brain surgeon you have to speak properly.”

Question 2

Line 2
(After “No I’m not! I’m not afraid of nothing. Anything. Leave me alone!”)

Answer 2

(sing-songy) “Ricky is afraid.”

Question 3

Line 3
(After “Shut up!”)

Answer 3

“So, what did you think of my speech?”

Question 4

Line 4
(After “Huh?”)

Answer 4

“What did you think of my speech? My audition piece. You
were listening weren’t you?”

Question 5

Line 5
(After “Huh? What? Yes!”)

Answer 5

“Do you want to go over yours?”

Question 6

Line 6
(After “Huh? What? No.”)

Answer 6

“Don’t worry about it. You’re perfect for the part. I’m sure
Ms. Kavendish will take one look at you and cast you on the spot. Romeo should be handsome and dashing, just as Juliet should be sweet and pretty. It’s a lock. Who else would she cast? I’m sure Brittany and Felicity and Apollo will get great parts too. Now. (she hands a book to RICK) I want to go over some of this in case we have to do a reading.”

Question 7

Line 7
(After “OK.”)

Answer 7

“We’re going to make such a stunning couple onstage. Ready?”

Question 8

Line 8
(After “Uh huh.”)

Answer 8

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”

Question 9

Line 9
(After NICOLA keeps up her pose hoping he will come to.
When he doesn’t, she swats him with her script.)

Answer 9

“It’s your line!”

Question 10

Line 10
(After “Huh?”)

Answer 10

“It’s your line!”

Question 11

Line 11
(After “Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?”) he sounds dead

Answer 11

“Rick!!!”

Question 12

Line 12
(After “What?”)

Answer 12

“You need to put more feeling into it. More oopmh!”

Question 13

Line 13
(After “But –”)

Answer 13

“Let’s pick it up a little further down.”

Question 14

Line 14
(After “But –”)

Answer 14

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo doff thy name,
And for thy name which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.”

Question 15

Line 15
(After “I take thee at thy word.
Call me but love and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Raymeo.”)

Answer 15

“What man art thou, that thus bescreened in night
So stumblest on my counsel?”

Question 16

Line 16
(After “By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am.
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee.
Had I it written, I would tear the word.”

Answer 16

“Never mind. (she takes in a deep breath) I know I’m going
to get this part. (she starts to gather her things) So, you’re going to meet me at the audition tomorrow at four o’clock. Can you remember that or should I write it down?”

Question 17

Line 17
(After “Four o’clock. I got it.”)

Answer 17

“Good.” (she gives RICK a peck on the cheek)

Question 18

Line 18
(After “Why?”)

Answer 18

“Why what?”

Question 19

Line 19
(After “Why do I have to meet you at the audition? (a thought comes to him) Oh I get it! You want moral support. You want me to cheer you on. Maybe I should borrow a set of pompoms from Brittany – “Go Niki!” (He laughs to himself at his own cleverness. Then he notices NICOLA staring at him.) What?”

Answer 19

“Rick. We’ve been practicing speeches for days now.”

Question 20

Line 20
(After “You’re great Nik. I know you’re going to get the part.”)

Answer 20

“We’re both going to get the part.”

Question 21

Line 21
(After “I’m going to be Juliet?”)

Answer 21

“Try to stay with me. We’ve talked about this. Planned this.
We’ve been practicing so we can audition together and get parts together and be on stage together.”

Question 22

Line 22
(After “On stage?”)

Answer 22

“You – Romeo. Me – Juliet.”

Question 23

Line 23
(After “On stage?”)

Answer 23

“Yes.”

Question 24

Line 24
(After “In front of people?”)

Answer 24

“That’s how it’s usually done.”

Question 25

Line 25
(After “You never told me that!!!”)

Answer 25

“Rick…”

Question 26

Line 26
(After “Uh uh, no way, no can do. It’s fine behind closed doors where no one can see us but there’s no way I would ever stand…”)

Answer 26

“Rick?”

Question 27

Line 27
(After “Tights…”)

Answer 27

“Rick, what’s the matter?”

Question 28

Line 28
(After “This guy, this Ray –”)

Answer 28

“Romeo.”

Question 29

Line 29
(After “He wears tights! Shakespeare’s always done in tights.”)

Answer 29

“No it’s not.”

Question 30

Line 30
(After “Niki, you want me to embarrass myself in front of the entire football team looking like a ballerina?”)

Answer 30

“Don’t football players wear tights?”

Question 31

Line 31
(After “Don’t you even joke about that! It’s not the same thing. Not the same thing at all.”)

Answer 31

“There aren’t going to be any kind of tights in the show. Ms.
Kavendish is doing a modern version. No tights.”

Question 32

Line 32
(After “No?”)

Answer 32

“Jeans and t-shirts.”

Question 33

Line 33
(After “I still can’t do it.”)

Answer 33

“Ricky…”

Question 34

Line 34
(After “I play football. I take other football players by the head and slam them to the ground.”)

Answer 34

“And you’re very good at that. But don’t you want to be more
than a football player?”

Question 35

Line 35
(After “No.”)

Answer 35

“Don’t you want to be something else?”

Question 36

Line 36
(After “No.”)

Answer 36

“Don’t you want to fully experience the wonder, the thrill, the
excitement that is William Shakespeare?”

Question 37

Line 37
(After “No!”)

Answer 37

“Fine. I see.” (she picks up the script and moves away)

Question 38

Line 38
(After “You’re mad.”)

Answer 38

“No. Not at all. I’m perfectly – (RICK moves in to hug her)
Don’t touch me!!”

Question 39

Line 39
(After “I’m sorry Niki. It’s just not going to work.”)

Answer 39

“I understand.”

Question 40

Line 40
(After “Good.”)

Answer 40

“So I guess you’ll be OK with the kissing scenes.”

Question 41

Line 41
(After “What?”)

Answer 41

“You’ve been reading the play Rick; surely you noticed there
are at least two kissing scenes.”

Question 42

Line 42
(After “I wasn’t really paying attention.”)

Answer 42

“If you’re not playing Romeo that means I’ll be kissing
somebody else.”

Question 43

Line 43
(After “Give me that!”)

Answer 43

“I’m impressed Rick. I never thought you would be so open
about this. You are really growing as a human being.”

Question 44

Line 44
(After “I can’t read this. I hate this guy! Why can’t he
write English like everybody else. Where is it? Where is it?”)

Answer 44

“Saints do not move though grant for prayers’ sake.”

Question 45

Line 45
(After “Saints do not move though grant for prayers’ sake.”)

Answer 45

“Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.”

Question 46

Line 46
(After “Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.”)

Answer 46

“Then have my lips the sin that they have took.”

Question 47

Line 47
(After “Then have my lips the sin that they have took.”)

Answer 47

“Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”

Question 48

Line 48
(After “Is that Shakespeare for kissing scene?”)

Answer 48

“Big time.”

Question 49

Line 49
(After “When did you say the auditions were?”)

Answer 49

(with a big smile) “Four o’clock.”