A Rebuttal Play

Simon's play was actually tight- kudos to him. It came late, but it's very witty - I wouldn't want to spoil it for you.

The response I can assure you took well within the 1 hour limit, in fact, I would say 10 minutes. That makes up for other times, I would say, so we can call it a cross subsidy.

The play is called: Procrastination.

Procrastination

A very short play

By Bubble Blurster

FIRST DRAFT

19 December 2013

Cast:

Two women

Two men

A Peacock

Interior. Share house. Two rooms.

To stage right is a lounge room, with a couch and TV and an elaborate Persian rug strung up against one side of the wall. On the floor a baseball bat, police chalk outline of a body on the floor. The front door is at far stage right, leading off stage.

To stage left is study with a computer (must be an Apple), computer desk and one  chair. A Buffy standee propped against a wall, pizza boxes strewn across the floor and an Xbox with couch plugged into a TV on the far left of the room.

Centre stage there is a door (real or mimed) separating the two rooms.

Early evening. Young man and woman in the kitchen, mid conversation.

Simon:	... and he never managed to ever finish the job.
Bek:	Well Simon, you're hardly one to talk. You've been working on this blog all year, and you seem to have faltered about half-way through.
Simon:	But I've been working on this play -
Bek:	- which you're not even going to finish.
Simon:	I will so finish it...

Peacock enters the room from the right.

The end.

Simon is cookin'

Seeing as Simon has finally pushed out his next project, it seems only fair to respond. However, I'll do it in a different order to Simon. Nothing in the rules says I can't, so let's get straight into the cooking.

I call this Le Simon.

Now, a copy of a copy is never quite as good, but this was the original that I was going for:

I know. Can you even see the difference?

Well, at least I closed this one out in well under an hour. For completeness, what you need to make this tasty dish is:

1) Cranberries
2) Blueberries
3) An apple (red, preferably not enchanted)
4) Mango
5) any kind of small nut for the beard
6) Almonds
7) Plums
8) Absolutely nothing else to do with your time.

I would recommend the Rutherglen Tawny Port as a fine support to finish it off.

There's only one recipe on this blog, but it's a happy one. I'm not going to remove the cranberries and call it a separate meal just to create a filler, like some have been known to do...