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Posted: Sun Jun 3rd, 2007 11:36 pm |
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dont' know if it's mannerly to reply to your own challenge, but i came up with this over the weekend and thought it fun enough to pursue.
INTERVIEW
by LEON KAYE
c. 2007
All Rights Reserved
MN, 50-65 years old, sits behnind a desk, wears a white oxford shirt.
ANN LANE, twenties, pretty and peppy, ENTERS.
ANN: Good morning. How are you today?
MN: (all business, writing, eyes looking down at her pad) Miss Lane, have a seat.
ANN: Thank you. And before we begin, I'd like to say I am such a big fan. Your work --
MN: Thank you.
ANN: -- is brilliant. I've been following you like forever.
MN: Now then...
ANN: Right, right. You have questions. Fire away.
MN: New Orleans.
ANN: Wonderful.
MN: The hurricane.
ANN: Yes, wonderful. Just wonderful.
MN: Wonderful? An entire city was virtually destroyed.
ANN: Yes, but a city built on a delta using levees to block flood water.
MN: A lot of people died.
ANN: That's sad, but again -- poor planning.
MN: Your answer may be troubling to a lot of people.
ANN: Yes, people that don't take personal responsibility for their actions. The city's below sea level.
MN: Okay, the tsunami.
ANN: In Indonesia?
MN: Yes.
ANN: Well, where's the early warning system? Clearly, geologists sounded the alarm years ago, but no one listened. A lot of people died when it could have been prevented.
MN: And the loss of property? The devestation?
ANN: Hey, don't build on a beach. Or getter better insurance.
MN: That's pretty cold.
ANN: We have the technology to limit losees. If people don't wanna spend the money... (throws her hands up as if to say "I dunno")
MN: Forest fires?
ANN: Just part of the Earth's reforestation process.
MN: Melting glaciers?
ANN: Very troubling. But the humans have to stop with all the emissions --
MN: You say humans as if --
ANN: We humans. Of course, we humans.
MN: And the tornado in Kansas?
ANN: Well...
MN: Yes?
ANN: Tornadoes are necessary, very necessary.
MN: But you paused there.
ANN: Oh no. We must have tornadoes.
MN:But maybe not in populated areas?
ANN: I didn't say that. The people in Kansas should know tornadoes are coming and they... they really should... I dunno.
MN: Move? Build fall-out shelters?
ANN: Yes, yes. Two good ideas.
MN: What if they're on a fixed income...living in trailer homes with no means of transportation?
ANN: They could move to Chicago.
MN: What about the children? The poor children that are subject to their parent's bad decisions?
ANN: (Quiet) I... I feel badly for them. But --
MN: Oh, quit the charade, Miss Lane. I know your game. Cal-Berkely, Redwood society, the Girl Scouts... You're not fooling anybody.
ANN: I joined the Girl Scouts cause my mother made me.
MN: Really? And if your mother tells you to stop the African drought, are you gonna listen?
AN: No, of course not. That's different.
MS: If I gave you this job, you'd divert hurricanes to unpopulated areas, eliminate volcanic erruptions, stabilize fault lines -- even save the whates if you could manage it.
ANN: If I did any of those things, I'd double the snowfall!
MS: Oh snow is nothing! What's snow except heavy water?
ANN: People get stranded on roads and die of frostbite!
MS: Oh boo-hoo. What are they doing driving in the mountains in State Parks in winter? Idiots!
ANN: I promise I would do a very good job, maybe not as good as you, but I'd... I'd... I have a hard time killing innocent children, and old people, people that can't be moved because of illness... veterans... how can I be mean to the veterans?
MS: I knew it. You come in here ready to be my apprentice, maybe take my job in time, and you lie to me? Well, you will see what happens to you, Miss Lane.
ANN: To me? But -- but --
MS: (stands, throws her hands up in dramatic form) It's not nice to fool mother nature!
SOUNDS OF THUNDER. STAGE GOES BLACK. THE END.
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Paddy
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Posted: Mon Jun 4th, 2007 02:59 am |
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Love the dialogue...so fast. Smart.
I knew the last line was coming....a third of the way through. Don't know if I was hoping it was actually a government job.
Smile.
Nicely done, Leon.
Paddy
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Posted: Mon Jun 4th, 2007 02:16 pm |
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| i was gonna ask that, paddy... when did you see it coming? which is a fun question to ask for all such plays. you probably WILL see it coming, or have a gyst that it's gotta be A or B. i wonder if someone can write a play that totally blindsides us with the last line. hmm...
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