Red Devils
Aug 23rd, 2008 by David
PETER, PAUL AND MARY ARE DISCOVERED SITTING AT A TABLE. A CHEST OF DRAWERS IS ALSO PRESENT.
AYAKO STANDS DOWNSTAGE OF THE GROUP, SMARTLY DRESSED, HOLDING A TRAY ON WHICH ARE FOUR GLASSES OF MILK.
THE FOUR CARETAKERS, WEARING THEIR BLUE WORK CLOTHES, ENTER AND SIT ON CHAIRS ARRANGED IN A LINE AT STAGE RIGHT, RUNNING FROM UPSTAGE TO DOWNSTAGE. THE CHAIRS FACE INTO THE STAGE.
THE 12 INTERPRETERS, WEARING SMART BLACK DRESSES, ENTER AND TAKE THEIR SEATS IN A ROW FACING THE JANITORS AT STAGE LEFT.
THE THREE HANDSOME YOUTHS ENTER, CLAD IN DRESSING GOWNS. THEIR LEGS AND FEET ARE BARE. THEY SIT ON STOOLS DOWNSTAGE OF THE CARETAKERS,
BESIDE THE AUDIENCE.
AYAKO SERVES EACH CARETAKER A GLASS OF FERMENTED MARE’S MILK FROM A SILVER TRAY.
AYAKO (IN JAPANESE) Here is a glass of fermented mare’s milk for your pleasure.
EACH INTERPRETER TRANSLATES THIS LINE INTO HER NATIVE LANGUAGE. THE PENULTIMATE INTERPRETER IS AMERICAN. THE FINAL INTERPRETER IS BRITISH.
EXIT AYAKO.
BOTH GROUPS STAY ON STAGE THROUGHOUT THE ENSUING PERFORMANCE.
PETER I’d like to get in touch with my feminine side.
MARY I’d like to get in touch with my masculine side.
PETER &
MARY Paul?
PAUL It sounds very wholesome.
PETER I know it’s in there.
MARY I’m dying to get to it.
PAUL It’s worth looking into.
PETER More than worth it. With the world as it is today.
MUSIC: FADES IN AND STAYS IN THROUGHOUT
THE BLOOD HELD ABOVE THE WALLS WILL START TO TRICKLE SLOWLY DOWN.
AT CERTAIN POINTS THE ACTORS WILL RELEASE THE BLOOD CONCEALED IN THEIR COSTUMES.
PETER All the good food that you eat turns to shit inside you. Why doesn’t it stay good inside you?
MARY It makes shit. There’s shit in you now.
PETER If I had a baby would I have a shit?
MARY Of course you would. There’s only one hole.
PAUL Does the baby hurt your bottom?
MARY Of course it does. It splits it.
PETER And then the shit is out all over the place.
PAUL Can you put the shit back?
PETER No. It won’t go back.
MARY How does the shit get up the bottom then?
PETER People put it there.
PAUL In the night?
MARY That’s when they push it up.
PAUL Is the baby shit?
PETER It’s a big shit.
MARY The mummy carries the shit. That’s why she sticks out.
PETER The mummy grunts when the shit comes out.
PETER Does she love the shit?
MARY She very much loves it.
PAUL She makes it into a baby.
PETER And the shit goes inside the baby.
PAUL You can’t see it.
MARY But it comes out.
PETER Like sick.
PAUL Can she sick the baby?
MARY Sometimes the baby is sicked up.
PAUL Does she put it back?
MARY She can eat it up if she wants.
PAUL Can she stick it up her bottom?
PETER It’s better to eat it up. It’s quicker.
PAUL The baby doesn’t die.
PETER No. The baby never dies.
PAUL So where does the baby come from?
MARY The daddy.