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Saturday 6 April 2013

MacScottish Play and the Zombies

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 by Ashley Lister

This week's theme is jokes. I believe there are one or two jokes in the following play which was performed at the Dead Good Poets' open mic event yesterday evening.


MacSCottish Play and the Zombies

 EXT. A desolate moor near Sauciehall Street. Night.
SFX: thunderbolt & lightning. Three witches are centre stage. One of them holds a cat.

First Witch
When shall we three meet again?

Second Witch
What about next Tuesday, for the bingo? That would
be nice, wouldn’t it?

Third Witch
I have been visited by a prophecy of doom from my pussy.

First Witch
(to audience)
She means her cat.

Third Witch
My pussy has told me two things: First it has told me
the zombies are coming.

Second Witch
Ooh! That’ll be nice. Usually they just shamble
along seeking brains and eating people.

Third Witch
And, secondly, my pussy has told me that we will meet
with the nobleman, Lord MacScottish Play.

Second Witch
Ooh! A nobleman. How lovely. Will you be washing your
pussy before you meet him?

First Witch
(to audience)
She means her cat.

Third Witch
I don’t think there’ll be any need to wash my pussy.
He’s Scottish so he won’t be expecting that.
[beat]
Unless you’re talking about my cat.

Enter MacScottish Play and Banquo

MacScottish Play
Fandabidosi. Och aye the noo. Whit urr ye three ladies
daein' 'ere?




Banquo
[to audience/precise English]
Good evening. My name is Banquo and, for the remainder of
this play, until my untimely death at some point later in
this opening act, I shall be playing the role of the
translator for everything said by the noble Lord
MacScottish Play.

MacScottish Play
[angrily to audience]
Ye heckit Sassenach bastards.

Banquo
[to audience/translating]
Good evening English people. I admire and respect
your culture.

First Witch
All hail MacScottish Play, Thane of Cawdor.

Second Witch
All hail MacScottish Play, King of Scotland and slayer
of the Zombies.

Third Witch
(offering cat to MacScottish Play)
All hail MacScottish Play. Would you like to play with my
pussy?

MacScottish Play
Ah dinnae ken whit ye'r sayin’, yer dunderheided bitches.

Banquo
(translating)
The Lord MacScottish Play thanks you for your kind
greeting but he’s unsure why you’re calling him by these
grand titles.

MacScottish Play
(nodding)
Aye.

(points at Third Witch)
Pussy.

Third Witch
(offering cat to MacScottish Play)
Would you like to play with my pussy?

MacScottish Play
(stroking the cat)
Ah wid ower clap yer wee moggie. Aye.

MacScottish Play strokes the Third Witch’s cat.

Banquo
(to the remaining two witches)
What dark business is occurring here? These roads should
be safe for travellers like myself and my lovely Lord
MacScottish Play. He’s a Scotsman. He’s not used to being
accosted by wanton slatterns like yourselves. No offence.
Not unless one of you is trying to sell him smack or
something. No offence. Or unless one of you is his sister
propositioning him for sexual services. No offence. Or
offering him a munchy box. No offence. Or a deep friend
Mars Bar and neeps. No offence.
 
First Witch
We have been granted a prophecy. Zombies are going to
come.

Second Witch
I said: ‘that would be nice.’ Usually they only get to
shamble places and eat brains in these types of stories.
It must be very frustrating for them.

Banquo
(aghast – looking around)
Zombies here in Scotland? Brainless, empty shells of
soulless human beings, killing and consuming without any
thought or conscience? How will the zombies have a chance
against them?

Enter Zombie

First Witch
Here’s one. I told you the zombies were coming.

Second Witch
(disappointed)
He’s not coming. He’s just walking slowly.

Banquo
(to audience)
I’ve never understood why anyone would fear zombies.
They’re so slow moving and obvious it’s not like they’d
be able to sneak up behind someone and take them
unsuspecting and unawares.

Zombie attacks Banquo by sneaking up behind him – unsuspecting and unawares. Banquo dies.



Zombie
Brains. Must eat brains.

Zombie attacks Second Witch.

Zombie
Brains. Must eat brains.

Second Witch
Ooh! This getting eaten out isn’t as nice as I’d hoped
it might be.

Second Witch dies. Zombie attacks Third Witch.

Zombie
Brains. Must eat brains.

Third Witch dies. She takes the cat down with her when she falls. MacScottish Play produces a sword and stabs Zombie. Zombie dies.

MacScottish Play
(talking to the dead Zombie)
Ya bas. Ah wis plooter her moggie.

First Witch
Well done Lord MacScottish Play. You saved the world from
Zombies and stopped Scotland from becoming home to a race
of mindless, inarticulate violent types that are shunned
and feared by the rest of the free thinking world.

MacScottish Play
Thank f**k for that. We wuddnae huv wanted that tae
happen, wid we?


THE END

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