Scott MacLeod
    Theater & Performance Texts

Written in 2006, as yet unproduced.

STANLEY'S GREAT JOURNEY FROM SEA TO SEA

“While on this disastrous march he lost five of his people, who wandered on helplessly, fell down, and died.”

In a long Nuutaq sled near the Fissures of Trotsky, off the harsh coast of Nova Zemlaya. Leader of the expedition, Colonel Baby Baby Baby, surveys the wreckage.

Baby Baby Baby:
Stave noncontributing cockiness dragger. Bent harbor lack. Monocot gallon venture. Bugger.

Tom:
Dictum perlocution interpolator.

John M:
Deaconship.

Sheila:
Lightheartedness.

None truly sense the impending. Their carrack slides inexorably across the Adenauer Plateau. The Aachen Narrows lay between them and their goal: the Chimborazo Fist.

Paul:
Onvoid, Cretin sutures.

Scott:
Poleward magnetically. Radiopathetique compulsiveness.

Baby Baby Baby:
Adrenaline’s adrift. Anglicized Argonauts’ abject attempt.

Scott:
Smothered cuss.

Paul:
Adana pledge nightlife. Cylon cyclotron neon café promendade. Liquor in Ice. Land.

Baby Baby Baby:
Accountability’s accosted, accursed.

Sheila:
Apt Accusations.

Tom:
Abdul against Abelard.

Scott:
Abraham’s apeish abrujo. All arrogance abrogated again.

Tom:
Aeneas and Aeolus anticipate Aeschylus, apparently.

Scott:
Alternatively, Aesop, arguably.

Paul:
Aargh.

Baby Baby Baby:
Aaaaaaaaarrr!

Paul:
Matey!

Tom:
Blimey!

JohnM:
(from the crowsnest): Acadia!

Sheila:
Agriculture. Animals. Aperitifs. Anouk Aimee.

JohnM:
Ahab’s abattoir. Achilles’ acropolis. Agamemnon’s Alamo. Aladdin’s alabaster airport.

Sheila:
Misty equestrian illusion. Indianan foal ogler. Adipose toughly towards indorsed geranium mutableness.

Scott:
Radiotelography truce.

Tom:
Unarguable phaeton production centralizer inflictor.

JohnM:
Rescind starry eroticism tartly.

Paul:
Eldest bawdy grease diver tubing obscenely.

Baby Baby Baby:
Avicenna tessellated seventieth peruse medicinal Dore emoter activation atomizer horsetail ingeniously mappable binational Wren melodramatics reportage Pilate anneal sulfa jitteriness gerontology metabolize refurbish waggery Baden manageably minuscule bluets tipi instantly fusible actinic Methodistic layperson unsupportable nibble predisposed sooth gawk shortie cheaply Darryl pellagra preemie torsion inherent undeterred kabob nonagenarian disturb frisker adopt estivate nobly Latino marauder nontarnishable dungarees tendon radicalism diplomatic Durban sweatpants cassock Writings overexertion donkey Beduin herpetological hotbed angelic denunciative flouncy ouguiya Saipan shillalah

JohnM:
Stereotypical protofascist tremulously speaks.

Tom:
Agreed: another of Appalachia’s abstruse academics.

All:
Alleluiea!

They wander off helplessly, fall down, and die.