'HYPNO-TWISTS'
Scene
– on the stage at a hypnotist’s show, with cast members
sitting amongst the audience.
Denby: Now ladies, I want you to look deep into my
eyes…
Agnes: Aren’t they a lovely hazel colour?
Edith: That’s who should have come – Hazel.
She’d love this.
Vera: Aren’t you forgetting the last time she
came along on one of our trips to the city?
Valda: She had a few too many rumballs and I don’t
think that we want a repeat incident with that lovely constable and
her support hose again now, do we?
Denby: Sorry to interrupt ladies but this is my show.
Now stare deeply into my eyes. You are getting sleepy, very sleepy.
(The ladies start to snore in a pattern – one wheezing, one
grunting, one sighing, one exhaling loudly and one ‘num-num-num-ing’.
The idea is that it should sound rhythmic and repetitive.)
Denby: Agnes, you will be a chicken, Edith will be
a horse and Vera, you will take on the characteristics of a cow. When
I click my fingers you will become that animal. When I say the word
‘Uzbekistan’ you will revert back to your normal, and I
use that term loosely, your normal selves. Ready?
(Denby clicks his fingers. The ladies enact their animals until
Denby shouts out ‘Uzbekistan’. The ladies don’t know
how they got into the positions they find themselves in.)
Edith: I don’t know if Hazel would have liked
this at all!
Sylvia: Thank you ladies – if you would just
like to follow me over here.
