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Show Transcription:
Monkey Theorem
King Monkey: Fellow monkeys! Thank you all for giving up your lives and also to your ancestors for also helping us to partake in this experiment. I can now tell you that we have done it! We have typed the complete works of Shakespeare and in doing so, we have finally proved to so many Homo sapiens just how intelligent we are!
SFX: Cheering
Monkey Maurice: (Shouting) It can’t be so!
King Monkey: It is so my friend! I have it right here. In my hand. The manuscript.
Monkey Joe: (To Monkey Maurice) In your face humans!
Monkey Maurice: (To Monkey Joe) This is the best day of my life.
King Monkey: The monkey theory has finally been realised. This is a momentous day. It will be passed down to your children and your children’s children and their children’s children about being here the day that we typed the complete works of Shakespeare. Nothing can take this day away from us. Nothing!
SFX: Wind, rustling.
King Monkey: Oh. Nothing apart from this wind.
SFX: Sounds of papers flying up in the air
All Monkeys: Nooooooooooooooooo
King Monkey: Catch the papers!
Monkey Maurice: We can’t. We’ve not evolved to catch the complete works of Shakespeare.
Monkey Joe: Did we back it up?
King Monkey: No, cos we had to use these bloody typewriters.
Monkey Joe: And we wonder why we are called stupid….
King Monkey: Back to the typewriters monkeys! Back to the typewriters….
END
Rapunzel
f/x birds singing
Prince Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb thy golden stair.
f/x HARP PLAYING AS THOUGH SOMETHING SPIRALLING DOWN
Reginald Spencer (officious/boring voice) Excuse me, er, what d’you think you’re doing?
Prince I beg your pardon?
Reginald Spencer (officious/boring voice) I said “excuse me, er, what d’you think you’re doing?”
Prince Well, not that it’s any of your concern but I was just about to climb up this golden stair here to visit my girlfriend, Rapunzel. She’s up in this tower. Who are you?
Reginald Spencer (officious/boring voice) Spencer’s the name: Reginald Spencer. And this is my card: I’m from the local council.
Prince (as though reading but unimpressed) Health and safety department.
Reginald Spencer (officious/boring voice) That’s right. And you climbing this woman’s hair here is distinctly prohibited under several of the regulations. I’m going to have to put a Stop Order in place at once.
START HARP PLAYING
Rapunzel (floaty/girly voice) Princey? Oh my princey-wincey? What’s taking you so long down there?
STop HARP PLAYING
Prince Nothing dear.
