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CHARACTERS
Frank Wycheck – Former Tennessee Titans tight end, current sports radio host and professional wrestler. Wearing Harley Davidson motorcycle jacket.
Max Wycheck – Older Brother of Frank. Frank’s endorsement agent. Has a slight, so small it’s almost not worth mentioning, coke problem. Wearing a Steve McNair Titans jersey.
Bo Rice – Frank’s sport agent. Right arm in a cast. Wearing a suit with the right sleeve cut off.
Wrestler #1 – Wearing face paint and long black tights.
Wrestler #2 – Wearing silver wrestling trunks and boots.
SETTING
The set consists of card table with three chairs around the table. In the background, Wrestler #1 and #2 wait for instruction from the actors.
Max: The Long Bomb? (Wrestler #1 does a Five-Star Frog Splash on the prone Wrestler #2.)
Frank: No.
Bo: I still like The Hail Mary. (Wrestler #2 lifts Wrestler #1 in the air and tosses him off of the stage.)
Frank: No.
Max: (smacks the table with palm) Oh, god, why didn’t I think of this before?
Frank and Bo: (in unison) Yes?
Max: The Frank-enstein. (Wrestler #1 chokes the life out of Wrestler #2.)
Frank and Bo: (in unison) No.
(A knock comes from off-stage. All three men turn towards the sound.)
Frank and Bo and Max: (in unison) Pizza!
(All three stay seated. Max and Bo avoid eye contact with Frank until Frank sighs and goes to pay for and retrieve the pizza. The pizza is placed on the table and the three of them eat in silence for thirty minutes. While the pizza is being consumed on stage, index cards should be handed out to the audience by stagehands. At the twenty-five minute mark, cards should be collected with audiences’ suggestions for the name of the finishing move. These cards should be delivered to the stage and placed in a pile on the table. The suggestions should be worked into the play at the discretion of the actors and will be improvised by the wrestlers.)
Max: The Run-n-Shoot? (Wrestler #1 bounces off the (imaginary) ropes and then spears Wrestler #2 in the stomach with his head.)
Frank: No.
Bo: The Wycheckmate? (Wrestler #2 performs a basic neck crank on Wrestler #1.)
Frank: No.
Max: The Onside Kick? (Wrestler #1 executes a kick to the groin of Wrestler #2.)
Frank: No, no, no, no.
Bo: Roughing the Passer? (Wrestler #2 lifts Wrestler #1 into the air and drops him on his shoulder.)
Frank: No.
(Remainder of play to be performed once the actors have exhausted the possibilities from the audience)
Max: (Pushes his seat away and stands.) Fellas!
Frank and Bo: (in unison) Yes?
Max: Fellas!
Frank and Bo: (in unison) Yes?
Max: Fellas!
Frank and Bo: (now standing) Yes?
Max: (arms outstretched) The Music City Miracle. (Wrestler #1 lifts Wrestler #2 into a Argentine Backbreaker Rack and runs towards one side of the stage before stopping suddenly and performing a Spinning Airplane Toss.)
(Silence)
Frank: Yes! (Removes jacket and pants to reveal titan blue and white wrestling trunks. Raises one arm in the air and confetti falls from above the stage. Lights dim. Curtain falls.)
End.
Friday, June 22, 2007
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2 comments:
One nice thing about staging this is that at least half of the audience would write "Music City Miracle" on their cards, and then once it was performed would believe their idea had been chosen because it was so clever and original.
Another nice thing is the coincidence that imaginary characters and real people resemble each other so closely.
The last nice thing is that the actors get to eat pizza every night.
If this play were actually performed with live actors, I think Bo Rice would steal a few scenes. Especially if Bo Rice were played by a young Jack Nicholson. Or Leo DiCaprio. He wore a cast for most of The Departed and was able to walk that fine line of using the cast to help his character without using it as a crutch.
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