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1<br />

<strong>falling</strong> <strong>stars</strong><br />

a play<br />

for young people<br />

by<br />

<strong>Alex</strong> <strong>Broun</strong><br />

email: abroun@bigpond.net.au<br />

(C) <strong>Alex</strong> <strong>Broun</strong> 1984


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Cast<br />

SNOW WHITE<br />

WICKED QUEEN<br />

BIG BAD WOLF<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK<br />

PETER PAN<br />

ALICE IN WONDERLAND<br />

WHITE RABBIT<br />

NODDY<br />

LANCELOT<br />

TINKERBELLE<br />

Time<br />

The present.<br />

Settings<br />

Scene 1: A meeting room, Storybook Land.<br />

Scene 2: A street in a city.


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Scene 1.<br />

The WICKED QUEEN, PETER PAN, CAPTAIN HOOK, LANCELOT, SNOW<br />

WHITE, NODDY, BIG BAD WOLF, TINKERBELLE AND ALICE IN<br />

WONDERLAND. SIT AROUND A LARGE TABLE. THEY CHAT AMONG<br />

THEMSELVES.<br />

SNOW WHITE STANDS.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Excuse me. Quiet down please.<br />

EVERYONE CONTINUES TALKING.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Excuse me. I'd like to ...<br />

EVERYONE STILL CHATTERS.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

(STANDING) Oi ! Shut up.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Thank you. In my capacity as President I'd like to welcome<br />

all my fellow storybook heroes and villains to this "The 125th<br />

Annual General Meeting of the Fictional Characters<br />

Collective."<br />

APPLAUSE.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

I'd like to thank of all of you who voted me in as your new<br />

President.<br />

I didn't.<br />

ALICE:<br />

I did.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I'd now like to call upon our terribly happy and gay secretary<br />

to read out the minutes of the previous Annual General<br />

Meeting. Noddy.<br />

NODDY:<br />

(STANDING ON CHAIR) I have to stand on here because I'm very small.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

Not to mention very queer.<br />

NODDY:<br />

At the last Annual General Meeting it was decided to allow 2 weeks<br />

holiday per year with pay to all our members.<br />

APPLAUSE. NODDY SITS.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Is that all ?<br />

NODDY:<br />

Yes.


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SNOW WHITE:<br />

Short meeting. Well, thank you Noddy. I now call upon, all the<br />

way from "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little<br />

Pigs" - the Big Bad Wolf.<br />

LANCELOT: Doesn't look extremely bad to me.<br />

PETER PAN: Doesn't look very big either.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Oooh, he is.<br />

Quiet. Well, according to figures received from Mr Storybook<br />

himself last week, our livelihood is even more greatly under<br />

threat than we expected. Sales on all our books have dropped<br />

drastically.<br />

MURMURS FROM ALL THE CHARACTERS.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: "Alice in Wonderland" down 35%. "Peter Pan" down 40%.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

It'd sell better if it was called "Captain Hook."<br />

Not to mention the wonderfully exciting, incredibly famous,<br />

family favourite, starring yours truly : "Little Red Riding<br />

Hood", which has dropped a mammoth 83%. Worst of all is<br />

"Noddy in Toyland" which hasn't sold a copy in the last two<br />

years.<br />

NODDY:<br />

Blame Big Ears.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

LANCELOT:<br />

Reasons for the slump are believed to be connected to the 20th<br />

Century and a creature known as the 'Movie' who is locking<br />

children in big back rooms and forcing them to watch strange<br />

little pictures on big white screens. Consequently they are<br />

unable to read our books.<br />

Who is this foul beast 'Movie' ? Let him feel the point of my<br />

strong, silvered blade.<br />

ALL: Lancelot !!!<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

The 'Movie' is being aided by the dreaded Vince, King of the<br />

Video Games and his dastardly band of Silicon chips.<br />

NODDY: What's a Silicon chip ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

A type of pretzel.<br />

NODDY: Oh I've never had one of those. Are they nice ?<br />

ALICE:<br />

Very nice.


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BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Lurking amongst this band of Pretzels are the infamous<br />

assassins Donkey Kong, Pacman and the most feared of all -<br />

Super Mario 2.<br />

GASPS OF TERROR. THE WHITE RABBIT ENTERS<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

Oh my fur and whiskers. I'm late. I'm late. For a very important<br />

meeting. Oh hi everybody !<br />

ALICE:<br />

Sit down silly.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

The situation seems hopeless, however I am currently working<br />

on a device which could defeat the 'Movie' and the terrible<br />

'Vince, the Video Game King.' It's called a television.<br />

CHEERING.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Thank you Big Bad Wolf.<br />

Oooh, he's so handsome.<br />

Wicked Queen please. Control yourself. The situation does<br />

seem desperate. I'll open the meeting to discussion from the<br />

floor.<br />

LANCELOT PUTS UP HIS HAND.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I call upon the heroic Lancelot from Camelot.<br />

LANCELOT: I shall go forth unto the common and challenge this Super Mario 2 to a<br />

jousting match to the death.<br />

CHEERING.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I don't think you can joust with a Video Game.<br />

LANCELOT: Oh.<br />

PETER PAN PUTS UP HIS HAND.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Peter Pan of Never Ever Ever Ever Land.<br />

PETER PAN: That's Never Never Land. We should go to all the libraries in the<br />

20th Century and steal all the children's books. Then they'd have to<br />

buy new copies.<br />

ALICE:<br />

Grow up Peter.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: We should -


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SNOW WHITE:<br />

Hand.<br />

THE WICKED QUEEN PUTS UP HER HAND.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: I said we should -<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Wait for it. The Wicked Dog. Sorry, Queen.<br />

Why don't we poison all the Silicon chips and then feed them<br />

all to the Video King ?<br />

What a great idea ? Next.<br />

WHITE RABBIT PUTS UP HIS HAND.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

The White Rabbit.<br />

WHITE RABBIT: Me ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Yes you. The one with the tea fetish.<br />

WHITE RABBIT: Why don't we invite all the children to a Tea Party and then<br />

drug their tea and make them read our books ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I think you've been hanging out with The Mad Hatter too long.<br />

Any other suggestions.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK PUTS UP HIS HOOK.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Captain Hook, straight from the Crocodiles tummy.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: I suggest, my fine feathered friends -<br />

NODDY:<br />

I haven't got any feathers.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

That we embark on a voyage across the seven seas to the 20th<br />

Century and render this Captain Video his come uppance.<br />

LANCELOT: (STANDING) Splendid idea.<br />

CHEERING.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

But how do we get there ? Your boat sunk remember.<br />

Oh yeah. So it did.<br />

PAUSE. TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Tinky, do be quiet we're all trying to think.


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TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Tinky please.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I'm beginning to get angry Tinky.<br />

PETER PAN PUTS HIS HAND UP.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Yes Peter.<br />

PETER PAN: I think what Tinkerbelle's trying to tell us is that she can sprinkle her<br />

magic flying dust on us to transport us all to the 20th Century.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

All that from one Tinkle.<br />

ALICE:<br />

NODDY:<br />

Well why didn't she just say so ? Goodness me.<br />

She's almost as silly as Big Ears.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES ANGRILY AND STARTS SPREADING DUST<br />

ON EVERYONE.<br />

PETER PAN: Now all we have to do is say the magic chant and we shall all be<br />

transported to the 20th Century.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Fine. Everybody ready. Close your eyes. 1. 2. 3.<br />

ALL:<br />

Coca Cola, MacDonalds and Schweppes<br />

If you want to get to 1983 then take these steps.<br />

THEY OPEN THEIR EYES.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

I don't think it worked somehow.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

PETER PAN: Tinkerbelle says we all have to do the Magic Movement.<br />

ALL: Do we have to ?<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

PETER PAN: Tinkerbelle says yes we do.<br />

ALICE:<br />

What pray tell is the Magic Movement.


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PETER PAN DOES IT.<br />

ALICE:<br />

That's quite rude.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

PETER PAN: Tinkerbelle says form a circle and hold hands.<br />

THEY ALL FORM A CIRCLE AND HOLD HANDS. TINKERBELLE<br />

STANDS IN THE MIDDLE. AS THEY CONTINUE THE CHANT THEY<br />

DO THE MAGIC MOVEMENT.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I feel stupid.<br />

Shut up Wicked Queen.<br />

PETER PAN: Ready.1. 2. 3.<br />

ALL:<br />

KFC, Toyota and Hoyts<br />

Jump up and down and shake your joints.<br />

7-Up, Neighbours and E-Street<br />

Let's all just hope we land on our feet.<br />

BLACKOUT. WE HEAR VIDEO NOISES.<br />

Scene 2: A Street in 1983.<br />

THE WICKED QUEEN, BIG BAD WOLF AND CAPTAIN HOOK ARE LYING<br />

ON THE GROUND. THE WICKED QUEEN WAKES UP.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Time travel sure isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Hey, where<br />

is everybody else ? Maybe something's happened to them.<br />

Maybe the journey ruined Snow White's hair. I'll be fairer than<br />

her now. Wolfy, Hook. Get the mirror.<br />

THE BIG BAD WOLF AND HOOK WAKE UP AND GET THE MIRROR.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Mirror Mirror on the wall<br />

Who is the fairest of them all ?<br />

WOLF AND HOOK: Her lips blood red, her hair like night<br />

Her skin like snow, her name Snow White.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Even in the 20th Century I can't beat her. I can't understand it.<br />

Look at her with her seven little dwarves. She's such a wimp.


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BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

A goody-goody.<br />

Pretty little wench though.<br />

Oh shut up.<br />

Hey Wicked Queen, now that we've been separated from those<br />

do gooders we can commit copious amounts of dastardly<br />

crimes.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: Yeah. Like what ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

We could get rid of Miss Snow White and then you shall be the<br />

fairest in the 20th Century.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: Swoggle me eyes, you reckon ? What about Cindy Crawford ?<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

What about her ? I'm far more glamorous.<br />

And Hook, you could finally be rid of Peter Pan, the little green man.<br />

Maybe we could have him keelhauled 'neath the Manly Ferry.<br />

Drop the nautical bit Hook. But Wolfy how are we going to<br />

destroy those do gooders you know we are forbidden by Mr<br />

Storybook to ever really hurt one of them. I poisoned her with<br />

an apple once and he got that Prince to kiss her and make her<br />

better.<br />

Same for me. I had Peter at me mercy and then that old<br />

crocodile appeared. You even got fried by Three Little pink<br />

Pigs.<br />

They got lucky. Never fear my fellow villains. We shall seek<br />

out Vince, King of the Videos and with the help of my secret<br />

device, the Choogilicki -<br />

WICKED QUEEN: The what ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

Choogilicki.<br />

Funny name landlubber.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: You're not one to talk about funny names Captain Hook.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

By using the Choogilicki we shall place King Vince under our<br />

power and force him to destroy Peter Pan and Snow White, and<br />

anybody else we feel like.<br />

A brilliant plan Wolfy.


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CAPTAIN HOOK: If she wants to be the most beautiful in the land you're<br />

going to have to kill quite a few. But across the seas, how shall<br />

we find this Captain Vince ?<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

King Vince, Captain Big Nose.<br />

We'll just have to get someone to show us where he is.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: (INDICATING GIRLS IN THE AUDIENCE) What me 'earty ?<br />

You mean one of these scurvy wenches.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Or maybe one of those older ones up the back.<br />

No, they're all to dumb. We'll have to find him ourselves. Let's go.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: Ah hah. Shall we sing a song as we go ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: Why not ?<br />

ALL:<br />

We're off to see the Vince,<br />

The Wonderful King of the Vids,<br />

If ever, oh ever there was a King<br />

THEY EXIT.<br />

SNOW WHITE, LANCELOT, PETER PAN, WHITE RABBIT, NODDY<br />

AND ALICE IN WONDERLAND ENTER.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

My ears hurt.<br />

SNOW WHITE: What Angel wakes me from my flowery bed ?<br />

PETER PAN: Do they have Angels in the 20th Century ?<br />

NODDY:<br />

ALICE:<br />

We have Angels in Toyland.<br />

And fairies.<br />

LANCELOT: (KISSING SNOW WHITE'S HAND) My fair Snow Flake.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

That's Snow White buster.<br />

LANCELOT: The Wicked Queen, the Big Bad Wolf and Captain Hook can not be<br />

found. My heart aches for I fear the Pretzels have already devoured<br />

them. Oh shock, horror - dismay even.<br />

ALL:<br />

Lancelot.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

Lancelot, why don't you take your horse and sword and save<br />

them from the wicked, despicable Pretzels ?


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LANCELOT:<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

I shall White Rabbit, I shall. Miss White, I take my leave.<br />

Take it and leave.<br />

LANCELOT: Exit stage right.<br />

LANCELOT EXITS.<br />

ALICE:<br />

Stuff and nonsense.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

PETER PAN: Tinkerbelle wants to know where we are ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

Yes, I wonder where we are too.<br />

It looks like some kind of zoo.<br />

NODDY:<br />

It sure ain't Toyland.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Oh shut up Noddy. Maybe the dwarves can tell us.<br />

PETER PAN: They're not dwarves, they're Lost Boys.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

They're girls dummy.<br />

ALICE:<br />

Girls, smirls - they're nothing but a pack of cards.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

I wonder if they go to tea parties.<br />

NODDY:<br />

(TO AUDIENCE) Well she looks like the cheeky monkey who stole<br />

my little red car.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Have any of you read my book ?<br />

ALICE:<br />

(EXAMINING AUDIENCE) How pecuilar. Pooh, I'm not frightened<br />

of you.<br />

LANCELOT RETURNS FIGHTING WITH A VIDEO GAME JOYSTICK.<br />

HE EVENTUALLY DEFEATS IT.<br />

LANCELOT: I've done it. I've struck the heathen beast down.<br />

ALL: Lancelot !<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

Not much of a beast.<br />

SNOW WHITE: So where is the Wicked Dog - I mean Queen ?<br />

PETER PAN: And Captain Hook ?


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WHITE RABBIT:<br />

And the Big<br />

ALICE:<br />

Bad<br />

NODDY: Wolf ?<br />

LANCELOT: I was unable to rescue them.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Why bother ?<br />

LANCELOT: I travelled over many miles of rugged terrain Mike.<br />

ALL: Did you Mal ?<br />

LANCELOT: Yes Mike, I did and I fought fierce storms.<br />

ALL:<br />

Well woopy doo.<br />

LANCELOT: But all I found there was this vile beast which I<br />

have slain.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Lancelot.<br />

LANCELOT: Yes my fair Snow maiden.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Can it.<br />

ALICE: Can't you do anything right ?<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

We'll have to all go to a dance party. I mean send out a search<br />

party.<br />

LANCELOT: I shall lead it.<br />

LANCELOT EXITS.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

What a dag.<br />

PETER PAN: He's more annoying than Captain Hook.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Or the Wicked Queen with her "mirror complex".<br />

NODDY:<br />

Or Danni Minogue.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

Well come on. Let's go and seek them out. Perchance they will<br />

be up to no good.<br />

PETER PAN: But how shall we find them ?<br />

ALICE:<br />

Easy, just follow the Yellow Brick Road.


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WHITE RABBIT:<br />

But there isn't a Yellow Brick Road.<br />

NODDY:<br />

Yes there is. Over there.<br />

SNOW WHITE: Why is everyone so obsessed with The Wizard of Oz all of a sudden ?<br />

PETER PAN: Hey Snow White, don't knock it. Let's go.<br />

ALL: Follow the Yellow Brick Road Follow the Yellow Brick Road<br />

THEY EXIT.<br />

WICKED QUEEN, BIG BAD WOLF AND CAPTAIN HOOK ENTER<br />

CARRYING A VIDEO GAME. THIS IS VINCE, KING OF THE VIDEO<br />

GAMES.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Now Vince, you've just got to eliminate Snow White.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: He said : why ?<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Because I said so, that's why.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

He said: I don't care what you say.<br />

Wolfy. Choogilicki him.<br />

WOLF AND HOOK: Yeah. Let's Choogilicki him.<br />

ALL THREE DO CHOOGILICKI DANCE.<br />

ALL:<br />

Choogilick, choogilick, chooga chooga Choogilick<br />

Choogilick, choogilick, chooga chooga Choogilick<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

(TO VINCE) Now my one eyed sea farer, destroy Peter Pan.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

He said: Stuff you.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: Stuff you ?<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Stuff you too.<br />

Guess it didn't work.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: Didn't work me 'earty ?


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WICKED QUEEN: You mean we did that stupid dance for nothing ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

Sorry.<br />

I'll give you sorry, you sea spray.<br />

THEY CHASE THE BIG BAD WOLF.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

(STOPPING) Hold on, I'm the Big Bad Wolf. I almost ate three<br />

little pigs and one little girl. Stop chasing me Wicked Queen<br />

and Captain Hook or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll have an -<br />

asthma attack.<br />

THEY CHASE HIM AGAIN. THEY RUN ACROSS THE JOYSTICK.<br />

VINCE MAKES LOUD VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: What's wrong with King Vince ?<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

The Ancient Mariner's a weeping.<br />

What a wimp.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

My God.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: What is it Wolfy ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Vince says that's his son, John the Joystick.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: So what ?<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

(TO JOYSTICK) Throw up your sail ol' Johnny boy. It's nice<br />

to meet you.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: Don't be so heartless Hook. Can't you see he's dead ?<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: He is ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

Yes he is.<br />

Then he won't mind if I do this.<br />

HOOK STAMPS ON THE JOYSTICK.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

Hook.<br />

Sorry, just got a little carried away.<br />

NODDY ENTERS.


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NODDY:<br />

Jason Donovan killed him.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Vince says: Go away you elf.<br />

NODDY:<br />

Oh well, back to Toytown.<br />

NODDY EXITS. VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Vince says: I'll get those good guys now. He says he won't just<br />

destroy them he'll Magical Monat them.<br />

Not another one of your Choogilickis you crab scuttling across<br />

the floor of silent seas.<br />

Hey, nice literary reference.<br />

Thank you.<br />

No the Magical Monat is his idea.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

He says The Magical Monat makes video games real. He'll put<br />

them all into a giant game of Super Mario 2 and destroy them<br />

all.<br />

I don't care how he does it as long as that Snow White gets it.<br />

Ahoy me earty's. The Lord Nelsons approach.<br />

HOOK, WOLF, VINCE AND THE WICKED QUEEN HIDE. SNOW<br />

WHITE, WHITE RABBIT, NODDY, ALICE, PETER PAN AND<br />

TINKERBELLE ENTER.<br />

ALICE:<br />

We couldn't find them anywhere.<br />

PETER PAN: Not under any rock.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

Or class room.<br />

Or even tea table.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

NODDY:<br />

Not even in the choo choo.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

I asked a little girl to come and have tea with me and read our<br />

book.


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ALICE: What did she say ?<br />

NODDY:<br />

Something very naughty I expect.<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Worse. She said I was boring. In fact she said we were all<br />

boring and that's why no one ever reads our books anymore.<br />

She said Arnold Schwarznegger and Madonna we're much<br />

better than all of us.<br />

She called us boring.<br />

ALICE:<br />

I wonder why.<br />

TINKERBELLE TINKLES.<br />

PETER PAN: Tinkerbelle said: Because we are.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

No we're not. We're not boring. It's because all of them out<br />

there are all too lazy. They want everything given to them on a<br />

plate. They don't want to read. They'd have to use their<br />

imagination. Too much hard work. So they just watch TV,<br />

films and videos and slowly fry their brains.<br />

NODDY: That would hurt. I wonder where Wolfy, Hooky andQueeny are ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Well as for Queeny, you're already here. Maybe the dwarves<br />

can tell us where Hook and Wolf are.<br />

Hey Snowy and Noddy, here we are.<br />

We've got you now my big bellied barnacles.<br />

We're going to Magical Monat you - so there.<br />

ALL: Magical what us ?<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Never mind. Get 'em Vince.<br />

LANCELOT ENTERS.<br />

LANCELOT: I have returned.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Oh really. I mean great.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

Vince says : Good. You will be the first to die.<br />

LANCELOT: Never fear. I will defend you.


17<br />

VIDEO NOISES. LANCELOT FALLS TO HIS KNEES.<br />

LANCELOT: I die. I die. Tell King Arthur his dinner's in the<br />

microwave.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Sick 'em Vince. Magical Monat begin.<br />

VIDEO NOISES. MUSIC. WHITE RABBIT, SNOW WHITE, NODDY,<br />

PETER PAN AND ALICE ALL FORM UP INTO A LINE. THEY ENACT<br />

A GIANT VIDEO GAME. ONE BY ONE VINCE SHOOTS THEM ALL<br />

DOWN. THE GAME ENDS.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Ha ha. I've killed Peter Pan at last.<br />

You did it Vince. You revenged John.<br />

Now with Snow White gone I shall be the fairest in the land.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

He says: yeah right.<br />

You'll see. Wolf, Hook - mirror.<br />

THEY GET THE MIRROR.<br />

WICKED QUEEN: Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all ?<br />

WOLF & HOOK:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

The biggest sort, there is no doubt<br />

She's really great, in fact she's swell<br />

Pink with bells and golden curls<br />

Her name is little Tinkerbelle.<br />

But she's dead.<br />

(APPEARING) No I'm not.<br />

Hey you can't talk.<br />

Yes I can. I only pretended to be mute.<br />

Oh fick.<br />

(FALLING TO HIS KNEES) Oh no, save me my Queen.<br />

Vince double crossed. The Magical Monat is killing us too.<br />

We're cursed fellow pirates. My hand ... sorry my hook is<br />

turning green. I'm dying too.<br />

And I'm dying three.


18<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Looks like you're all getting what you deserved.<br />

I'm going quickly.<br />

Not as quickly as me.<br />

Bet I die before you.<br />

Bet I die before you.<br />

Bet I die before both of you.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: Oh yeah ?<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Yeah.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: Oh yeah ?<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Yeah.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: Oh yeah ?<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

Yeah.<br />

BIG BAD WOLF: Oh yeah ?<br />

THEY ALL DIE.<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

Oh dear. Everybody's dead. I guess that's the end. Come on<br />

Vince.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

Vince says: As if we'd end it like that.<br />

TINKERBELLE GOES AROUND SPREADING MAGIC DUST, THEN<br />

SHE CLICKS HER FINGERS. EVERYONE COMES BACK TO LIFE.<br />

LANCELOT: The Mystical Elixir has raised us from our deathly<br />

slumber.<br />

ALL:<br />

Oh shut up Lancelot.<br />

PETER PAN: Well Snow White, what do we do now ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

BIG BAD WOLF:<br />

WHITE RABBIT:<br />

I guess we better go back to Storybook land.<br />

I wouldn't mind seeing a movie first.<br />

I hear that new Tom Cruise movie's pretty good.


19<br />

ALICE: Isn't Madonna in something ?<br />

NODDY:<br />

Don't you mean out of something.<br />

THEY ALL START TO LEAVE.<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Oh well, if you can't beat them join them.<br />

CAPTAIN HOOK: Isn't this surrendering ?<br />

SNOW WHITE:<br />

Call it peaceful co-existence.<br />

THEY LEAVE.<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

(PICKING UP VINCE) Come on Vince.<br />

VINCE MAKES VIDEO NOISES.<br />

TINKERBELLE:<br />

I think you're nice too.<br />

THEY EXIT.<br />

WICKED QUEEN:<br />

(PICKING UP MIRROR) Hells bells, little Tinkerbelle fairer<br />

than me as well. Guess I better get a mirror that knows how to<br />

lie.<br />

SHE EXITS.<br />

END PLAY.

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