General Script posted February 20, 2024

Chapters:

...31 32 -33- 34...

Excellent

a scene with Pons and Ned

A chapter in the book Scenes at a Third Party

Scene at a Third Party 33

by Bill Schott

Cast: LorDee (Loralie DeSilva) = Presidential hopeful Skar = (Oscar Kilo, Pons's clone) Vice Presidential Pons Maninoff = keeps Skar on a short leash Ned Nuckledd = campaign worker MauMau= media coordinator Betty Biggins: = campaign manager AA (Abecedari Ann) = Poet Laureate RFC (Radical Female Character) The scene opens in the alley behind Luigi's genuine Italian restaurant where the noisemaking group has been arrested and are being loaded into a forty-foot White House Riot Ride. Each person in the group is strapped into a seat and all face inward in a rotating oval configuration  They are placed boy-girl-boy-girl. LorDee, Skar, Betty, Pons, AA, Ned, a female passerby mistakenly grabbed, and MauMau. LorDee : Line!   Stage Manager: At last! An arr --   LorDee : That's good. (clears her throat)  At last! An arrest that can qualify me for presidential stature. Skar : Trying for your Trump cred? Betty : We are all innocent bystanders. Pons :That should prove our guilt. AA : I feel a p -- Ned : (to RFC) What's yer nim, darlin'? RFC: Well, of course. That is as plain as the burned out cigar snuffing nose on Smokey the Snowman's ash can face. MauMau: I think Pons drank from the big-boy bottle tonight. LorDee : I think I want to have an affair with Maninoff. Skar: Shhh. He'll hear you. Betty : I think WE are already an item. LorDee : Shhh. You'll hear me. Ned : Are you drunk? Betty : Are you drunk, he asked, already knowing she was.... Pons : I think Annie is makin' up a poem. Ned : Where the buffalo roam? RFC : And the pears and the cantaloupe play. MauMau: Are you fellows singing, or are these the sounds of the end days? LorDee : Skar seems to remind me of Pons a lot. Skar: You know, of course, that I am Pons' clone. LorDee : Do they look that much alike though? Skar : We are practically identical. Betty : Are you drunk, she asked, already knowing she was.... Pons : Betty is starting to repeat herself. RFC : Said the local sprite to the visiting elf. Ned: ...and the skies are knockaloudyalday. MauMau: I guess I did drink the grape juice. LorDee : I'm imagining becoming a mother in the future. Skar : You mean like The Mother of the Nation? LorDee: I was considering just a girl and boy. Betty : The Mother of the Nation speaks... Pons : ...callin' on her friends'n freaks. Ned : ...airpits filt wit last year's leeks. RFC : Wait! Armpits full of leeks? MauMau: How do I find myself in situations like this? LorDee : Why are we outside again? Skar : Fresh air, and fresh air. Betty : Aren't those two items the same thing? Ned: I've bin list'n to the gals and they're talkin' about strange stuff. Pons: ...we don't talk about strange enough... RFC : Is it me, or are we speaking in rhyme -- ahh -- uff! MauMau: Maybe I should run for President. LorDee : Let's go back inside for a nightcap. Betty: I think Ned wants to ask me something important. Pons: He will say something like: Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Ned: I'm a wondrin if Betty would wanna grow old wit me. RFC: I'll bet she wants at least half of that. Pons: It's worth an ask, Cuz. MauMau: I wonder if Betty would want to grow old with me. LorDee : Shoot! The door is locked. Skar : I'm going to talk to Ned. Betty : Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Pons : What's a heaven fer? RFC: I'll just say it: Robert Browning. Ned: Why'm I in an alley? MauMau: Someone suggested I should run for President. I agree.   LorDe : Someone suggested I should run for President. I agree.   Skar: Someone suggested I should run for President. I agree.   Betty :Someone suggested I should run for President. I agree.   Pons : Someone suggested I should run for President. I agree.   Ned : Why'm I in an alley?    :               To be continued... Write A Review Image from Google Pays one point and 2 member cents. You need to login or register to write reviews. It's quick! We only ask four questions to new members.