'NO
MAN'S LAND'
Scene
– in No Man’s Land, an area outside the normal reality of
World War II
Demain: (Singing (as a little girl) offstage) Ring
a ring a rosy, a pocket full of posy. A tissue, a tissue, we all fall
down.
Ras: Stop! Something is not right. Where do you think
we are?
Peter: We’re in France…
Will: At the Somme.
Andre: No. We’re at Ypres.
Archie: You’re all nuts – we’re leaving
Gallipoli.
Haz: We’re defending Gallipoli.
Alan: I don’t like this…
Archie: What the hell is going on?
Nik: All that I know is that before I came here I was
feeling my way through smoke.
Joel: We were escaping a green cloud of gas.
Rajiv: It was dust – we couldn’t see because
of the dust.
Mohal: For us it was a blizzard. We couldn’t
see more than two feet in front…
(The Stage Manager reveals herself to the assembled soldiers)
SM: All that matters is that now you can see…
or can you?
Antony: Where did you come from?
SM: It doesn’t matter where anyone comes from
here. You should be more concerned with where you are going.
Mohal: Where are we?
Ivan: How did we get here?
SM: You are in No Man’s Land.
