PLAY #112: PERESTROIKA HAS MULTIPLE TENSES (MARCH 23)

A pyramid of red coal.

Lots of actors in MARGARET THATCHER face-masks enter.

Very fast music.

The MARGARET THATCHERS run around as if in a video game, smashing the coal with mallets, pocketing coal in handbag, stomping up and down on coal.

 

MARGARET THATCHERS exit in unison.

Dust rising.

CHORUS enters.

 

CHORUS

Maggie T extracted unions to save the climate

a bare state renews privately

perestroika comes in the oddest shapes.

 

ACTORS enter without face-masks, survey the dust and rubble.

 

The possibility that things can be salvaged, that something will be renewed, hangs in the air too.