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- Thursday 6th October 1994
- (C) Joona Palaste
-
-
- A Meeting in the Park
- (a play)
-
-
- The scene is the Kaisaniemi park in Helsinki. A hot-dog stand is visible,
- whose owner is busy kicking bacilli out of his ears. The hot-dogs are
- chanting "15 Men on the Dead Man's Chest, etc". The trees are constantly and
- seemingly endlessly dropping their leaves. Mairiam arrives on the scene with
- Sven the Hen.
-
- Mairiam: Ooh, isn't it such a lovely day? (glances at watch) I mean night.
- Sven the Hen (amiably): #*+@
- Hot-dog vendor: Greetings, my dear lady.
- Harlequin Harry appears out of a bus, which suddenly explodes in a massive
- nuclear blast.
- Harlequin Harry: Heellee, Meereem eend Sveen thee Heen.
- Mairiam: Ooh, it's Harlequin Harry, I've read SO much about you.
- Sven the Hen (bored): +*@#
- Harlequin Harry: Heev yee eendeed? Theet's streeng, beecees neetheeng hees
- been wreetn eebeet mee.
- Mairiam: Ooh, but that's just a phrase, isn't it?
- Sven the Hen (dumbly): *#+@
-
- The Sun sets, and the Moon rises. The luminance level of the park decreases
- drastically.
- Mairiam: Ooh, it's cold here.
- A bunch of Neo-Nazis arrive. They seem to be kicking invisible noses and
- shouting vulgarities in Hindi.
- Harlequin Harry: Wee'd beetteer deeg ee heel heer, see wee ceen bee seef
- freem thees Nee-Neezees.
- Sven the Hen (excited): #+@*
- Mairiam, Harlequin Harry and Sven the Hen dig a hole. As they do so, the
- Kaisaniemi park changes to le Place Dauphine in Paris.
- Neo-Nazi one: Punar vadatiti kanya apagacchati.
- Neo-Nazi two: Nrpasya asvodattam.
-
- Mairiam: Ooh, but that didn't help, did it? The park's changed.
- Sven the Hen (frustrated): +@*#
- Harlequin Harry urinates into a small cavity one of his hairs has created.
- The urine disrupts the delicate structure of space-time and causes the Dark
- Emperor to appear.
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Mairiam: Ooh, if it isn't the Dark Emperor. I've read SO much about you.
- Harlequin Harry: Deen't leek nee, beet eet's thee Deek Eempeereer.
- Sven the Hen (gaily): #+@*
-
- The Dark Emperor and Harlequin Harry are having tea together in the hole.
- Ottoman Ibn bounces into the hole and smashes the teacups.
- Harlequin Harry: Nee jeest leek eet wheet yee'v deen.
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Sven the Hen (idiotically): +#*@
- Ottoman Ibn: Oh, I'm sorry. (scrubs a finger. The teacups dance a wild dance,
- and mysteriously turn intact again.)
- Mairiam: Ooh, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but shouldn't we get out of this
- hole?
- Ottoman Ibn: Well, yes.
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Ottoman Ibn lifts a finger, and the hole fills with dirt. The Place Dauphine
- changes to Olympos Mons on Mars.
-
- Mairiam begins to grow peas on the Martian surface. The peas grow happily
- enough, save for a vivid cyan colour.
- Mairiam: Ooh, aren't these peas just lovely? (Eats a pea) Mmm... aah!
- Ottoman Ibn: Let me try some. (Eats another pea) Well, yes, they're good.
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Sven the Hen (jollily): +#@*
- Harlequin Harry: Wheet eer wee deeng een Meers? Sheeldn't wee geet beeck tee
- Eerth?
- Mairiam: Ooh, I would say so, yes.
- Ottoman Ibn: I'll fix that.
- Ottoman Ibn twirls his hair backwards, and the Olympos Mons changes to Hyde
- Park in London.
-
- Ottoman Ibn: Well that fixes that.
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Sven the Hen (lovingly): #*+@
- Mairiam kicks the Dark Emperor in the knee. The Dark Emperor remains intact
- but the act causes the fake Dark Emperor to appear.
-
- Fake Dark Emperor: Hullo, wee laddies and lassies.
- Mairiam: Ooh, but who is he? The Dark Emperor is by my side.
- Ottoman Ibn: That is the fake Dark Emperor.
- Fake Dark Emperor: What are ye a-doing in these parts, me hearties? (pours
- honey out of his bagpipe)
- Mairiam: Ooh, we're just visiting here.
- Harlequin Harry: Yees, eendeed wee eer.
- Sven the Hen (musingly): +#@*
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Fake Dark Emperor: Will ye shut up? (Points to the Dark Emperor) I be
- a-conversating with these here English people.
- Ottoman Ibn: I'm not English, I'm from Turkey.
- Mairiam: Ooh, and I'm not English either, I'm French.
- Harlequin Harry: Ee eem neet Eengleesh. Beet ee deen't knee mee
- neeteeneeleetee.
- Sven the Hen (nauseatingly): #+*@
-
- Ottoman Ibn: Hey, you there! (Points to the Fake Dark Emperor) Is there a
- way out of this mad place?
- Fake Dark Emperor: Aye, indeed thar be one. Would ye like to use it?
- Ottoman Ibn: Well, we'll have to vote on that.
- Mairiam: Ooh, I want to get out of here.
- Harlequin Harry: Mee tee.
- Sven the Hen (oppressively): +#@*
- Dark Emperor: I am the Dark Emperor. I shall conquer all.
- Fake Dark Emperor: Fine then, me lad. We shall get out of this here place
- and back to the good auld Highlands.
- The Fake Dark Emperor waves a finger, and Mairiam, Sven the Hen, Harlequin
- Harry, Ottoman Ibn, the Dark Emperor and the fake Dark Emperor all disappear
- in a fluff of smoke. The hot-dog vendor and the Neo-Nazis come back.
- Hot-dog vendor: Well that sure was mysterious. But now I shall go to bed.
- Neo-Nazi one: Yatha vrksastatha phalam.
- Neo-Nazi two: Na gardabo gayati siksito 'pi.
-
- The End.
-