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End of the fourth segment!

JULIE: When do you start shooting this scene?

MIKE: Next week. I had some rehearsals, but I’ve never taken Viagra…

JULIE (with steely calm): How could you rehearse, if you never take Viagra?

MIKE: And you?

JULIE: Of course not! I’m a woman.

MIKE (more and more excited): Julia, women are trying Viagra too… For some it seems to work. For others not…

JULIE: I don’t need to take Viagra…

MIKE: But…sex is good for health both men and women…

JULIE: Now, I don’t need sex. I seem to have lost interest…

MIKE: Exactly!!! And you have to know Viagra improves social communication!

JULIE (ironically): Communication!!…

MIKE (blithely continues): Maybe you would like to try Viagra some time… I have an extra. You can try it.

(Mike holds out a pill. Julie, hesitates then curiously takes it)

JULIE (looking at the pill): You’re stark raving mad!

MIKE: Aren’t you interested in how Viagra acts on you? You’re not curious?

JULIE (handing pill back): No!… Curiosity killed the cat…

MIKE: (coaxing): Are you afraid? Take a half then…

JULIE (standing): No!… Never!

MIKE: Julie, don’t be rash!… I ask one last time…

(Mike suddenly stands and tries to hug Julie)

JULIE (picks up heavy bronze: table lamp and pushing him away with the bronze lamp at the ready): Away!

MIKE (joyfully): It’s already working! I’m starting to feel warm…

(He glances at his watch)

Just 10 minutes! It’s normal!

(Pause)

JULIE (angrily waving the lamp at Mike); Now, I know why you came to me! You want to rehearse with me and Viagra! Bastard!

MIKE: Julia, I feel sorry for you… You’re not right…

(Julie slaps Mike on the face. Mike pulls away)

JULIE (shouts throwing the flowers at Mike): Get out! Do your rehearsals with your bitch, Rita!

(MIKE stoops over to carefully pick up the flowers. Between picking up the flowers one by one he says)

MIKE: Sorry…….but…….. To tell you… The truth….Julie,

(Long pause)

with Rita……. I don’t need Viagra!

JULIE (waving the lamp, screeches): Get out you bastard! Get out!…

MIKE (sadly, like a tragic actor): Now I see, you’ll never guess, why we separated… All our relations could be different, if…

(Pause)

JULIE (excited): If? What if?

MIKE: If you were a little bit… a little bit curious… Good bye, Julie!

(Mike exits. Julie slumps down on the sofa, but jumps up)

JULIE (runs to the door and shouts): Mike! Mike! Wait… I changed my mind! Come back!

THE END

OLGA LEONARDOVNA KNIPPER

CHEKHOVA (KNIPPER)– Chekhov’s wife 85 years old.

ANNA – student of the Moscow Theatrical studio.

The year is 1954. A dressing room in the theater. Knipper is restlessly sitting in an armchair waiting for her “Master Class” student. She suddenly stands, goes to a nearby coat rack, and casually starts to inspect each coat. Finding one to her satisfaction she nostalgically tries it on. There is a knock at the door. She quickly lays the coat aside.

KNIPPER: Come in.

(Anna opens the door; she enters trying to appear confident)

ANNA: Olga Leonardova, I’m sorry… I’m late…

KNIPPER: (pausing to make Anna more uncomfortable): Good day Anna. What is the matter? You always have come right on time… but today… I know it’s snowing hard…

ANNA: I’m sorry… I couldn’t…

KNIPPER: Our tea is ready… Let us relax a bit!

(Olga gets a tray with tea pot, three teaspoons, two small plates, cups, saucers and a jar of jam….pours their tea… Anna settles down… they take jam and sip… their eyes meet:)

ANNA: Olga Leonardovna, I have good news! Our Theater School will do, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” as our final exam.

KNIPPER: Grand! Have you auditioned for a part yet?

ANNA: The director, Vadim, asked me to play the heroine Ranevskaia.

KNIPPER: Ah!… Here’s your chance…

ANNA: You have played Ranevskaia so many times…