'THINGS'
Scene
– at your local community supermarket
(Nigel and Orla enter at one side of the stage. Penny queues at the
other.)
Orla: Are you listening to me Nigel?
Nigel: Yes dear. You were talking about some sort of
bathroom poultry…
Orla: Toilet Duck Nigel! Honestly, sometimes I wonder
if my mother was right about you.
(Nigel sees his old sweetheart Penny on the other side of the stage)
Nigel: Penny?
Orla: (Still talking about her mum) No –
her name's Minerva! I can't believe you don't know your own mother-in-law's
name!
Penny: Nigel?
Nigel: Penny? Penny Trulove?
(The theme from 'Love Story'. As the saxophone begins, they begin
to run in slow-motion toward each other. They meet and embrace. Orla
interrupts their romantic reverie.)
Orla: Nigel! Nigel Wingbunkle!
Nigel: Oh… er… This is my wife Orla. Orla,
this is Penny Trulove… an old friend from high school.
Penny: Nice to meet you Orla.
Nigel: Penny and I were in the same class.
Penny: The same everything – we dated from Year
7 to Year 11.
Orla: Did you?
Penny: Oh yes. We were inseparable – joined at
the hip.
Orla: Really?
Nigel: (Changing the subject) So what brings
you here? To the supermarket?
Penny: Milk.
Nigel: You're out of milk! What a coincidence –
we are too!
Penny: Wow… Who'd have thought?
Orla: After all these years, still so much in common.
