Written by Joe Janes
3/31/09
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CAST:
Ant
Ram
Rae
(Lights up on Ram and Ant sitting on rocks, eating meat on the bone. In front of them is a platter full of meat decoratively displayed with a pith helmet.)
ANT
What is that? It good. What is that?RAM
Wasabi.ANT (nodding)
Wasabi.(Rae, Ram’s daughter, enters. She carries a classic child’s dolly. She walks past Ant and Ram and plops down on the ground away from them in a huff.)
ANT (continuing)
What with daughter, Rae?RAM
She hate me.ANT
Why she not eating?RAM
She all of sudden vegetarian. Like her mother.ANT
Little old for dolls.RAM
Not doll. Tofu.(They both watch Rae eat the doll’s arm. Ant thoughtlessly picks up a toupee from the plate of meat and is about to eat it. Ram stops him.)
RAM
No, no. That garnish.(Ant puts it back. Blackout.)
