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Comedy: The Driving Habits, Beliefs, and Politics of People Who Own Teslas
Waiting for Vaccine
ACT I
An apartment. A couch.
Evening.
Walt sits on the couch.
Enter Eddie, wearing a face mask.
Eddie tries to take off his face mask. He gives up, exhausted, then tries again
EDDIE: Nothing to be done.
WALT: I’m beginning to come around to that opinion. Let me embrace you.
EDDIE: Six feet!
WALT: Yes. May one inquire where you’ve been?
EDDIE: The supermarket.
WALT: And they beat you?
EDDIE: Certainly, they beat me.
WALT: For what?
EDDIE: I tried to take the last box of oatmeal.
WALT: You should’ve ordered from Amazon. On the other hand, we should’ve stocked up on dry goods a million years ago, in 2019.
Continue reading “Waiting for Vaccine”Tartuffe of the Upper East Side
A Play in One Act
A luxurious penthouse.
DORINE
Should we wake him, Laurent? It’s nearly noon.
LAURENT
Leave him be and let snoring be his tune.
We can hope he falls into a coma.
On this planet, he’s a melanoma.
DORINE
You take him too seriously, I’m afraid.
When all he does is get drunk and get laid.
LAURENT
I don’t care that he drinks himself blotto
While pretending to pray in a grotto.
It’s when he claims that his frivolities
Are the result of innate qualities
That I want to drag him from this gilded cage
And make him live on our pay, minimum wage.
david hogan 