Escape the Scaffold by Titas Halder
Author:Titas Halder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
GRACE : They’re an indulgence really.
AARON : To be enjoyed only as part of a healthy balanced diet.
MARCUS : You two are pathetic.
You love everything you want, you believe in everything you like, great.
AARON : Rendition. That’s a bit eggy. Don’t believe you can justify that.
MARCUS : Ooh there’s a big one.
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE – don’t you like my rendition?
I rendered it quite well, I think, no thanks I get mind you.
GRACE : It was a terrible rendition.
MARCUS : To cook a duck breast breast perfectly, put it skin down in a cold pan.
Let the fat render down. That’s what I’ve read.
Till the skin goes all crispy.
AARON : Delicious.
MARCUS : Oh I’d kill for a duck breast.
Tell me Aaron do you think you still have the dexterity to score the skin?
AARON : I’m sure I could carve a Peking duck.
Pause.
MARCUS starts to go limp.
MARCUS : I wanted us to watch films together here.
Eat popcorn.
I couldn’t see into people’s brains could I?
Do you really think I could have predicted this?
GRACE : I could see.
Tycoons in towers pulling up the ramparts.
MARCUS : Well exactly.
I’m just a prawn.
A prawn in a cocktail.
MARCUS bellows with laughter.
MARCUS starts to behave erratically and breathe quickly.
And you’re on about plutocrats in towers?
From pluto? A planet with a plurality of rats?
Righteous Richard the crusader – crusading for what, rat rights?
Justice and Freedom for rats!
WHICH DO YOU WANT?
AARON : Both.
MARCUS : You can’t have both!
If you have justice you can’t have freedom.
How can you have any pudding, if you haven’t eaten your greens?
You’d never do anything for frrrreeedommm – you’re doing it for yourself.
GRACE is laughing at the hysteria.
AARON : Am I?
MARCUS : You don’t know what you’re saying.
Listen to yourself carefully.
The words coming out of your mouth are all slurred and blurry—
Are you having a stroke?
Dear passionate pilgrim you’ve lost your reason.
AARON : You’re talking nonsense.
MARCUS : Don’t you see?
You’re trapped!
You’re trapped – you BELIEVE you can make a small CHANGE change a thing – a thing… with small change?
Paradigm paradigm paradimensional paranormal panoramic parallelogram?
You’re PATHETIC.
AARON : I am struggling to understand what you’re saying…
MARCUS : If there’s nothing but struggle why not hang yourself you depressing bastard?
GRACE : Perhaps you should lie down.
MARCUS : You as well? How dare you ask me to lie down?
And you – you come into my house and you call me greedy?
GRACE : I called you greedy.
MARCUS : But you meant it – you said it on his behalf, didn’t you.
DIDN’T YOU.
MARCUS aims an accusatory finger, and as he swings his arm, he loses his balance.
GRACE goes to him and sits him down.
What on earth is happening.
GRACE : You’ve eaten too much
You’ve got gout.
MARCUS : Where’s my dinner?
I want my dinner.
Some dinner to soak it up.
GRACE : You’ve eaten your dinner.
MARCUS : Are you mad, woman?
I’ve been eating crisps from Mexico.
It’s NOT ENOUGH
AARON : What would you like?
MARCUS : Gateaux
Black Forest.
Schwartzwalder Kirchtorte.
GRACE : How can you have your pudding
AARON : When you haven’t had any greens?
MARCUS : I beg your pardon?
Ohhh some food…
MARCUS holds his head.
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