Monday, June 11, 2012

"Lazy Eye" by Westward Ho

            (Two INDIVIDUALS drift by on a barge.  They are lounging, of course.  The 
           WOMAN has her back to the audience.)

MAN
It’s funny to call it “lazy eye,” because---really---it’s not lazy.  “Wayward eye,” more like.  Constantly moving, darting this way and that.  “Active eye that moves to no end”---

WOMAN
Why would you---?

            (The WOMAN turns around.)

MAN
I didn’t mean you---

            (With effort, the WOMAN trains both eyes on him.)

WOMAN
If I could, I would shoot beams and burn you to ash.

            (She does so.  The barge continues to drift.)

            THE END