Showing posts with label woman-eating plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woman-eating plant. Show all posts

Monday, August 26, 2013

"Butch Gardens, Episode 15" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (Back at the site of the four plane crashes, the two severed HEADS roll around. 
            Fragments from the woman-eating PLANT gather themselves together and
            address the HEADS.)

PLANT
Hey, ladies!  I was pulverized, but I’m not through.  Why don’t you come with me, and we’ll make something of our shared brokenness?

HEADS
Will you eat us?

PLANT
I’m damaged goods, too desperate to find anything but friends in this world.  Are you with me?

            (The PLANT pieces start to shuffle off.  The HEADS roll after.)

HEADS
Whee!

            END OF EPISODE 15.

Monday, July 15, 2013

"Butch Gardens, Episode 9" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

            (FOOFEE comes out of the woods.)

GEORGETTE
Child, what a fright!

FOOFEE
I hate to bother you both, but my mistress is caught in a man-eating plant---

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
            (Calling from the brush)
Woman-eating---!

FOOFEE
            (Confidentially)
She’s always in trouble.

GEORGETTE
            (Gesturing toward GRACE)
That’s this one.  But I don’t fault her.

FOOFEE
She’s more than a boss to me; and I’d really like to save her.

GEORGETTE
Grace?

GRACE
We have our purses---

GEORGETTE
And our training from the WAC.  We met in the---

GRACE
She doesn’t want our life story---

FOOFEE
Your purses.

            (The three women begin clobbering the blood-thirsty plant.  The PLANT sniffles.)

PLANT
Ow, stop it!  Now, stop it!  Really; it’s enough to be a woman-eating plant!  Really.  I made a choice:  I like women.  You’d think the four of you would have some understanding . . .

FOOFEE
Quiet, you rotten radish!

GEORGETTE
Juice her!

GRACE
See you in hell, bitch!

            (The three women knock the PLANT to Kingdom Come---but not before she
            coughs up COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE.)

                 GRACE (Continued)
The nerve.  Trying to pull feminism on us.
            (To the plant particles)
I invented feminism, bitch!

GEORGETTE
            (To GRACE)
People might misinterpret . . .

            (FOOFEE helps the COUNTESS up.)

COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
There now.  I’m Countess Van Der Cave.  Let us walk in the direction of the running water.

            (They march off.)

            END OF EPISODE 9.

Monday, May 20, 2013

"Butch Gardens, Episode 1" by Mocha Tchokha Rose

LONNIE
Annie, what is this place?

ANNIE
I just got out of the crashed airplane.

LONNIE
’You hurt?

ANNIE
Nothin’ for a lady like me.

LONNIE
            (Terrified)
Where’s my hand?
            (Appeased)
Oh, I just lost the feelin’ in it.  What can you do . . .  Where are we?

            (ANNIE unfolds a map.)

                  LONNIE (Continued)
That map won’t---

ANNIE
It can’t hurt---

LONNIE
We were flying over the Amazon.

ANNIE
I hear a mighty river---

            (The roar of water.)

                   ANNIE (Continued)
Should we march towards it?

            (They head in the direction of the roar.  Someone is watching from behind a woman-
          eating plant.)

          END OF EPISODE 1.