INTRODUCTION - Skip this if you have read it already.
UPDATE is marked. Soon soon there will be consolidation. I swear.
I remind you this is a
Living Article Play Thing. I have a Beginning and and End typed. Soon there will be a Middle.
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When Bill Clinton was in his impeachment process, I wrote a short play about the event. I entered it into the Ten Minute Play competition and it was performed at the City Theater in Wilmington Delaware. It got a standing ovation from the audience. :::does quiet happy dance:::
Telling a story with interesting characters in 10 minutes is a challenge.
I have not looked at it for a long time. I think for giggles and because my original and only script is in tatters and scribbled all over, I am going to retype and rediscover it here. Who knows, maybe I will rework some of it into a new impeachment opus.
I am a big fan of the
Living Theatre. I traveled from East Gibip to attend one of their performances. The photograph is from
The Brig 1964. Prophetic? Their work has been an influence on mine. This is a
Living Article because I will be editing and rewriting as I go. Such fun. Send money. Keep me off the Street.
UPDATE begins here:.........................................................
It has been so long since I looked at the script, I forgot the title. Original title was
M & M's or Mania, Marketing and Millennium. Bit pretentious, I think now.
BEGINNING:
Bella:
Occasionally, when I feel a need for companionship, I hang out at a bar in Philadelphia affectionately known to we regulars as The Toilet.
Donna:
The Toilet Bar has a large picture window (uniquely decorated for every holiday) through which one may watch exotic flora and even fauna stroll Frankford Avenue.
Bella:
So there is a woman standing on the corner at the bus stop. A white Cadillac stops, she gets in the car and it drives off. Gone 15 minutes. And she is back on the corner.
Donna:
Black Lincoln pulls up. 20 minutes. Back and tucking the green under her wig.
Bella: A Jaguar pulls up. Back at her post.
Donna;
A Lexus pulls up. At this point, the Woman has attracted widespread establishment attention.
Bella:
The whole bar is cheering. And Tommy the Bartender asks "Given stamina, what has this Woman got?" She is generic female. Neither ugly nor lovely.
Donna:
Upon investigation, it becomes clear that whenever a guy in a new car with a $50 haircut approaches, this Woman hikes up her skirt, shows her panties and hollers "Yo Baby, scratch and sniff."
.....................................getting coffee
HOT NEW COPY.
A short play for two characters. It is a play that is also a dance a la Living Theatre a bit. One day perhaps, a dance professional will help me notate it. Here is a bit from the end:
ENDING:
Bella:
I saw an ad for Right Guard. I have a Secret. I do not want to be protected from wetness. I am into sordid unprotected sex with long haired 20 year olds. These days a hard row to hoe.
Donna:
If we apply the concepts we have been discussing, you are in real need of a new look.
Bella:
Botox. Nip and tuck. Piercing various body parts?
Donna:
Ugh.
Bella: Shave the head and grow the legs. Look like a stick in a skirt? That will take off a few years.
Donna:
Too hard. Oh too hard. O tempore!
Bella:
So I went out and got a tattoo. Two eyes. One on each of my inner thighs. That way, if any wandering person should come to visit down there, it will not feel lonely and might tarry awhile.
Donna:
Honey, you still be the same old stuff.
Bella:
Yeah but I have hot new copy.
MIDDLE: Some of it.
Note; This is the part where I talked about Bill's penis. I only have fragments of a script. I am going to have to search in my papers. So no continuity at the moment. Damn.
Donna:S
Modern Life. It is 8 a.m. I am making coffee. My baby girls turn on the TV. I can tell by the lack of noise, they are rapt. Cartoons? No.
A woman wearing too much fuchsia lipstick is intoning gravely "The President has a penis...and he uses it." Gah. Quick newsbreak 11 a.m. - "The President has a penis, it bends to the left, and he uses it often. News at noon - "The President has a lovely, loyal and intelligent wife; he has a penis and it is evidently the focus of a right wing conspiracy."
Bella:
Bill is no Spring chicken. So same old stuff. Hot new copy.
