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<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.