(Act Two is here)
Characters
Loose Bannon
Manthefort
Miss Kissy
Pa Trubu
Secessions
Tense Rictus
Watch Their Tails
Location
A room in Trubu Tower.
Tense Rictus, Miss Kissy, Manthefort, Secessions, and Watch Their Tails seated at a splendid table. Excitedly talk over one another as they eat and drink.
Secessions: A toast! To the latest poll! It has us up by twenty points in northern Idaho.
Manthefort, Miss Kissy: A toast! A toast! We’re killing her!
Watch Their Tails: It’s the beginning of the end for that epileptic.
Tense Rictus: I thought we were going with Alzheimer’s.
[Laughter. Shouts of Whatever! Okay!]
[A sudden hush.]
Tense Rictus: Here he comes.
[Enter Pa Trubu with Loose Bannon. The men at the table eye Bannon warily.]
Tense Rictus: Uh, hi, Bannon. What brings you by this lovely afternoon?
Pa Trubu: Gentlemen, I give you my new campaign manager. Manthefort, give Bannon your seat.
[Manthefort’s face flushes. He abandons his seat.]
Manthefort: So where do I sit now?
Pa Trubu: How about… KIEV?
[All laugh except for Manthefort.]
Pa Trubu: My friends, change as we know is a part of life, it’s a part of life, change, change, part of life, and although we’re doing great in Hayden we’re doing unbelievable in Hayden, we’re winning so much in Hayden they’re begging us to do less winning, there’s always room for improvement. Loose Bannon is the attack dog we need at this point in the election cycle.
Loose Bannon [on all fours]: Rrrrrrfff! Rrrrrrrffff!
Pa Trubu: Manthefort – you and Miss Kissy go to the wine cellar and get us another bottle. Tense Rictus, Secessions – walk my dog. [All four leave.] So – Loose Bannon, Watch Their Tails – it’s time for the three of us to get to work.
August 17th, 2016 at 2:01PM
Lovely, though I would have very much enjoyed the addition of a character called Rinse Repeat.
August 18th, 2016 at 7:10AM
loving this series but hard to compete with the daily news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/us/politics/stephen-bannon.html