Chapter 3 - An Awkward Conversation!
SET DESIGN: Distressed text light projection superimposed over set:
“The realities moving on the other side of the everyday world.” - Jill Carattini
SOUND FX: Cue “One Night in Bangkok” by Louise Robey -
https://open.spotify.com/track/60BoSBDeGpw74mIUUKoxLM?si=In3isT9GT-S89pfXpjO25w
SONG INTRO: Thunderclap
“One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me!”
Angel Hair (not sounding like a complete caricature of himself at all): Good afternoon, ladies.
Saran (literally not looking up from her phone at all): Get lost, creep.
“I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!”
Angel Hair (Endearingly): Don't be like that! What's done is done! (Turning to Velveteen) How are your oysters today?
“One night in Bangkok makes a hard Man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me!”
Velveteen (wide eyed with oyster ecstasy - so much fun!) (Waves): Really good!
Angel Hair: You girls still at, what is it? (Sneering): “Chicken Family Restaurant?”
Saran (Rolling her eyes, snarky): OMG, can we please not?
“So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours -- “
Velveteen (eyes coming back into focus): It’s very nice to see you, Mr. Bernardi. (Extends her hand in a forthright Manner, head up, shoulders straight.)
“One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me!”
AngerHair (taking her tiny hand in his giant hoof): Let me know if you guys ever want to start making money again! (Pauses just long enough to insinuate that this is where he would chuckle to himself at their folly. Which he won't. Too much class.) (Walks away.)
“One night in Bangkok makes a hard Man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me!”
Saran (Eyes still glued to her phone): Creep.
(Velveteen does not respond at all, fixated as she is on the Platter of Rapture laid out before her.)
Next: Saran's Memory!