A sparse restaurant.
The place is fairly empty except for a woman sitting a table. She stands out in the environment in a red dress, her hair big, teased, and backcombed, resembling a lion’s mane. Over her shoulders she wears a fur stole. This is OLIVIA.
You remember that night, right? I spent all those years trying
to get you to notice me. It felt like torture, and you’d just
walk by me without noticing me. I’d just stand there like an
idiot wondering what to do next. I’m glad you finally started
looking at me once we grew up, I don’t know what I would’ve done if we weren’t … Are we still awake?
Her legs are in great shape, causing Stan and Ollie to lean forward for a closer look. Unfortunately, just as they do so, Agnes breaks wind violently. The sound is exaggerated over the theatre speakers, almost elephantine.
Read MoreIt’s my birthday. I am eight now. My older twin siblings said that as a gift, they made a show for me. Here it is.
Read MoreIt is dark. We can hear someone SHUFFLING ABOUT,
GULPING, then SLAMMING A GLASS on a counter. We
see the FLAME from a lighter, then the RED
CHERRY from a cigarette. A DOOR OPENS and then
LIGHTS UP. It’s an abandoned bar. At the counter
sits TIM, a shabby, drunken man smoking a
cigarette. He’s shielding his eyes from the
light. In addition to the counter, there is a
table with two chairs downstage. Near the door
upstage stands DEATH, with the hood and scythe.
DEATH has just flipped a switch. TIM, who is
facing away, has not noticed DEATH yet.
Rose is convinced that she had found the promised land and crosses the desert with a band of followers to settle on it. When they arrive and there is no water source, they are skeptical of Rose’s sanity, who is trying to convince them that if they build the town, the river will come shortly after.
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