Most pictures and words from Anthony C Murphy

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

THE SHORTCOMING

A new one act, one scene, one idea play
by
Harold Halfpinter

Scene: A drawing room. There is a table and a chair. In the chair an oldish man smokes a pipe and reads a broadsheet, this is PATER. In walks a boy in school uniform, this is ANGEL


ANGEL        Hello!

PATER         Hmm! (grunts)


Angel takes off his uniform to reveal an adult suit. He picks up a bowler hat from the table and puts it on. This can take as long as it takes. Throughout there is silence, save for their activities and the nervous coughing of the audience.

ANGEL         Goodbye!

Angel exists.

PATER         Mm!


THE END







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