copyright © 1997 Adam Burton & Carolyn Space Jacobson

SASQUATCH AND MEANIE, TAKE TWO

by Adam Burton and Carolyn Space Jacobson

February 28, 1997

 

 

[Adam/SASQUATCH and Carolyn/MEANIE stand side by side, a little bit apart, directing their lines out toward the audience as if they were facing each other.]

 

SASQUATCH: You remember yesterday, when we were walking down the street and this guy was walking the other way, and kicked your foot, like, totally on purpose?

 

MEANIE: No.

 

SASQUATCH: No, really. We had just been to Prairie Lights. You bought that book, and we left to go--

 

MEANIE: No.

 

[SASQUATCH turns to deliver the rest of his lines directly at MEANIE.]

 

SASQUATCH: Look, Meanie. You mean you can't even remember that we--

 

MEANIE: No.

 

SASQUATCH: Do you remember yesterday?

 

MEANIE: No.

 

SASQUATCH: Do you remember me?

 

MEANIE: No.

 

SASQUATCH: What about--

 

MEANIE: No.

 

SASQUATCH: Or--

 

MEANIE: No.

 

[SASQUATCH turns to speak.]

 

MEANIE: No.

 

[SASQUATCH stands there perturbed, and then an idea dawns. He takes a breath and starts his line.]

 

SASQUATCH: I was besprised and becited when the wella blan--

 

MEANIE (emphatic): No!

 

[QUICK BLACKOUT.]