CHARACTERS:
TAKEN CHILD
STANDARD CHILD
KILLED CHILD
CHILDREN RIGHTS PROTECTION SERVICES
and
MANY VARIOUS PARENTS, i.e.,
Parents of the Taken child
Parents of the Standard child
Daddy of the Killed child
Lights
“About society’s right to know. Society’s right to know is not absolute,” S. Skvernelis, Prime Minister of Lithuania.
Scene 1
Parents who didn’t beat anyone
Because in a normal state parents who didn’t beat anyone has the right to talk first
But this state is not normal and they are first not because they deserved it but totally by accident
Kitchen at home mother is washing dishes dish pile seems to never end
Father loafs around scrubbing non existing crumbs from windowsill from table from cupboard
MOTHER You will cut the nails
FATHER Why me
MOTHER Then who maybe me
FATHER You always cut it why suddenly me
MOTHER Because maybe I don’t want to anymore
FATHER Starts a revolution out of nowhere
MOTHER I’ll give you a revolution
FATHER Give me
MOTHER Why are you acting like an infant
FATHER Maybe because it is your job to deal with everyone like they are children
MOTHER There’s no need for state level conclusions
FATHER Let’s go on vacation
MOTHER What vacation
FATHER Why can’t we allow that to ourselves like normal people
MOTHER So go on vacation with all these fucking nails
FATHER Come here baby don’t be sad
FATHER You cut the nails better than me I can’t do it with the cutter and you know how it goes with scissors
MOTHER Not my problem
FATHER What is your problem
MOTHER I’m not happy
FATHER Do you know any happy teachers
MOTHER Education is science of happiness I did not study to be unhappy
FATHER Why did you study
MOTHER Because I saw the kid as a
FATHER As what
MOTHER As a lamb which stands on a hill and it turns out it stands on my breast and rivers flow from the middle to the valleys to the mouths of all those lambs and wool grows everywhere and they shut mouths to goggle-eyes
How is it possible for a human to have such huge eyes so it seems it does not fit fester or eye holes are too small to fit
FATHER Come my sad baby respect people at least a little
MOTHER Who will respect me
FATHER Only human can respect itself
MOTHER Listen just cut the nails and it’s done
FATHER I won’t cut it period
MOTHER It is always period for you and I still have to cut it what am I to you did I study for that
FATHER You didn’t study for that why did you study at all it made you very unhappy
MOTHER Made a state level problem out of nails
FATHER You did that
MOTHER What are those nails to you it will claw you or what
FATHER So cut it if it doesn’t claw
MOTHER Scared by scissors
FATHER Not by scissors by cutter don’t mix up
MOTHER You made that word up yourself inventor
FATHER We could have a normal conversation but you had to make a disaster as usual
MOTHER Because you’re not a man
Mother keeps washing dishes all the dishes are done mother cleans the sink tap stove everything she can find
Father goes to the bathroom to read smartphone it feels like he’s vanished
Scene 2
Children are next to apartment-house staircase and maybe even sit on the bench next to a rubbish bin and maybe next to recycling containers
Killed child looks alive
Taken child hasn’t been taken yet
Standard child is the best dressed nice jacket posh colours when you look at him you get this it is too beautiful and fake feeling
STANDARD You want tangerine?
KILLED I’ll need to peel it I have no hands
STANDARD I will peel it
KILLED I’ll have to split it I have no fingers
STANDARD I’ll split it
KILLED I’ll have to chew it I have no teeth
STANDARD I’ll chew it
KILLED I’ll have to digest I have no belly
STANDARD So you don’t want it
KILLED I want it thank you
STANDARD You won’t get it
TAKEN Where did you get tangerine
STANDARD Mommy brought it home
TAKEN What colour is your mommy’s hair
STANDARD Blue
TAKEN And face
STANDARD White beautiful
TAKEN Lithuanian?
STANDARD She works at a shops stands behind the counter
TAKEN She brings tangerines home?
STANDARD Not everyday but drinks for daddy always
STANDARD Only when it’s Sunday
And on Sundays we go for a walk in the forest
We have to do everything until three
Because after three we all go to sleep
TAKEN So you say you go to sleep at three
STANDARD Last time
They went to sleep
I couldn’t sleep just lied there sun behind the window
I saw something on the closet
TAKEN What
STANDARD I don’t know
TAKEN What is it
STANDARD White
KILLED Snowman
TAKEN You stupid or what in a room
KILLED I’m not stupid I have no head
TAKEN So what do you have you headless prick
KILLED Mommy daddy
STANDARD So your mommy is good
KILLED She is very good loves me caressed my head
Gently with her hand
With which she washed trousers before
STANDARD You don’t have washing machine?
KILLED We have machine daddy drives fast
TAKEN So what was it on the closet
STANDARD I take chair climb up daddy moved I was so scared
Just grabbed that white thing
And hurried back to bed
TAKEN So what was it on the closet
STANDARD Spray can
TAKEN What what
STANDARD Spray can if you don’t know
TAKEN I don’t know
STANDARD Stupid
STANDARD Well I can bring it with me next time if you want
TAKEN I do good I don’t have spray can
STANDARD You have mommy
TAKEN I have
STANDARD What colour is her hair
TAKEN Red
STANDARD Shop girl?
TAKEN Teacher
STANDARD What she teaches
TAKEN Lithuanian
STANDARD So she’s Lithuanian
KILLED Can you tell me about taste of tangerine
KILLED What’s up with you?
KILLED I would like it very much if you could tell me about the taste of tangerine
TAKEN Don’t cry
STANDARD So take it and taste it
KILLED I will have to peel I have no hands
STANDARD I’ll peel it
KILLED I’ll have to split it I have no fingers
STANDARD I’ll split it
KILLED I’ll have to chew it I have no teeth
STANDARD I’ll chew it
KILLED I’ll have to digest it I have no belly
STANDARD So you don’t want it
KILLED I want but I can’t
TAKEN So what is a spray can
STANDARD I haven’t tried it
KILLED Nothing you can’t describe neither tangerine nor spray can
I’m very good at describing things
For example what is sea
TAKEN So what is sea
KILLED Sea is water
TAKEN You haven’t seen sea
KILLED I have no eyes
TAKEN You haven’t swum at sea
KILLED I have no swimming cap
STANDARD You want to go to seaside?
KILLED Very much but I will never
STANDARD Why never
KILLED I have been killed
STANDARD Who killed you
KILLED Daddy
TAKEN Why?
KILLED Because I couldn’t say rabbit
TAKEN What?
KILLED Never say rab-bit whatever happens
STANDARD Why do you say that
KILLED Rab-bit means the end the end of the world
TAKEN Don’t cry why are you crying
Two boys only children who have never seen crying and dead kid so it’s not very nice feeling in the air but what can you do
Scene 3
Standard child’s parents are having slow sex
So slow that not only she but also he who is not hurrying anywhere because with some medicine he has no problem with erection
And he wants to show the woman how good he is how long can he go on heyheyhey and this and that
MOTHER I am thinking about you fucking me on vacation
FATHER You want something different than usual
MOTHER Of course I want different
FATHER How
MOTHER maybe we should try some surprise like in some castle under some portrait of some dead queen so she can envy us
FATHER You get excited when someone envies
MOTHER Of course it excites me I would want to I don’t know in the middle of a library between the aisles when all those old books of Hemingway and Remark are falling so that everyone would envy me because everyone envies when they see that someone is passionately fucking in the middle of the day
FATHER Exactly in the middle of the day
MOTHER Exactly passionately why
FATHER Nothing
MOTHER But I’m thinking not about that
FATHER What then
MOTHER What we’ll do with the kid
FATHER We’ll let him go outside
MOTHER What outside abroad there is terrorism
FATHER I didn’t think about that
MOTHER I don’t know you know I was thinking maybe we shouldn’t bring him
FATHER Don’t take him on vacation at all
MOTHER What does he need vacation from when you think school maybe
FATHER How can you get tired at school don’t joke
MOTHER We’re grown ups we get tired we’re no kids
FATHER True maybe you’re right let’s not take him otherwise we won’t be able to whenever we want there in the same room that’s horrible
MOTHER I’m telling you my eyes popped when I first thought about that
FATHER When did you think that
MOTHER Yesterday I just didn’t say anything
FATHER Good that you said it
MOTHER You’ll tell him
FATHER Why me
MOTHER after all father should say such things about the vacation not mother
FATHER Why in contrast mother is more sensitive one
MOTHER But for the father it is more important to be able to fuck like normal human
FATHER Why to the father it is more important is it not important to you
Standard father climbs off the standard mother
MOTHER Important so I say
FATHER So why do you say that for the father it is more important
MOTHER Because still
FATHER What still you don’t even care maybe so why are you lying here on your belly go to the shower or paint your nails don’t just lie there if it’s not important
MOTHER What’s got into you just look at Skvernelis he reacts to everything like a Belgium
FATHER Why are you dragging my childhood friend into this sex talk you have some fantasy or what
MOTHER God how childish you are I don’t know I can’t even say anything anymore I can’t joke
MOTHER No worries we’ll go some place we’ll rest calm down
Standard father doesn’t calm down
MOTHER Don’t you want to finish?
FATHER Finish yourself if you want I’m done I have to go to the balcony I need fresh air it’s dreadful here see the spring outside
MOTHER Of course go outside there’s so much space in the balcony breathe some fresh air
FATHER Today is the first of March
MOTHER Of course it is March how did that March come so fast hop and here it is suddenly it’s just been New Year
Standard father leaves
Mother finishes herself
Scene 4
This is philosophical thought on what is a normal state and what is not normal one
It would be very good to insult someone with that thought but you need some intelligence to get insulted
So it means no one will get insulted so there’s no point to talk in vain
In summer nails are growing faster than in winter
Because in summer everything is growing faster
For example look through the window the grass tree leaves all kinds of flowers
Spikes of fir stupidity of a fool
Sometimes nails bloom
White blooms blossom
It is air concentrated in nail plates
Overall air is a very important subject
It is said that air is very polluted
In our world
It causes climate change human change fool change
There is only one person in whose world air is clean as just washed hair
You have to know how to resist to blooming of nails
Because blooming of nails is a bad sign
You have to know how to resist to hair and a person with hair
And person without hair
And person with large eyes
And person with red eyes
Because it is red not due to love but due to fertilizers
Scene 5
Parents who didn’t beat anyone
Taken child haven’t been taken yet just came back from school
Kitchen mother is washing the dishes dishes seem to never end
Father is loafing around he is gnawing and crumpling and folding kitchen towel as if he had done something important like wiping the dishes but he didn’t
FATHER Hello baby so how was the school
TAKEN Good daddy what is a spray can
FATHER I’m asking you how was school you spray can
TAKEN Well I’m telling you it was good but what is a spray can
FATHER Good is not an answer
TAKEN So what is answer
MOTHER Good comma
TAKEN What?
MOTHER Good comma and then a full sentence which explains why good I can give you an example like thank you I’ve been bad I’ve been poorly paid for my big job
TAKEN I got it
FATHER So how was school
TAKEN Thank you I barely got two for a big job
MOTHER What two
FATHER What job
TAKEN Arts we had to draw love for the state and I drew snowman because I was in a mood for that
MOTHER Everything’s clear
FATHER You did good
MOTHER We forgive you it’s nothing
TAKEN So what is a spray can
FATHER It is a kind of container
TAKEN What container
FATHER In which something is put
TAKEN How come
FATHER Well like a bottle which you can spray
TAKEN To spray what
FATHER You spray what you want
TAKEN For example
Father bring in an example
TAKEN What is it
FATHER Shaving foam here you see a spray can
TAKEN All clear so this is a spray can
FATHER Yeah
TAKEN So shit I thought it was something more it’s bullshit
MOTHER Maybe enough about spray cans and it’s time to cut your nails kid
TAKEN Well not now
MOTHER Daddy will cut your nails
TAKEN Why daddy
MOTHER Daddies also have to do some things from time to time
TAKEN Well no not daddy he can’t do it with the cutter
FATHER I told you I can’t
MOTHER He can he was learning all day
FATHER I wasn’t
TAKEN Mom well there’s no need when he’s cutting well you know
MOTHER Don’t write off daddy how he’s supposed to feel when you write him off like that
FATHER It’s nothing let him
TAKEN I’m going to Matukas
MOTHER I’ll give you Matukas we are cutting the nails
TAKEN Well in the evening
MOTHER Daddy won’t be home in the evening
TAKEN So you will cut it and maybe it’ll be the end of this circus
MOTHER There’ll be no end there must be order for once
TAKEN There’ll be order in the evening well what I’m gonna say to Matukas that I’ve been cutting nails
FATHER Let him go
Child runs away
Mother notices that all the dishes are done and the sink tap stove are quite clean she is thinking what to do now
Father is looking through the window
Scene 6
Standard child’s father and the standard child
It is not clear who is more afraid of the other and which one is the father and which one is the child and which one has dark tomorrow waiting for him and which one maybe has no tomorrow waiting at all
FATHER Listen baby
STANDARD I’m listening daddy
FATHER There are seven rooms
You are allowed to six and not allowed to the seventh
STANDARD How come I’m not allowed
FATHER It’s forbidden you see
STANDARD I see forbidden
FATHER There are seven keys one is tiny
You don’t touch that tiny you hear
Because when you touch it when you put it into the seventh lock
Never will you or the world be the same as it used to be you understand
STANDARD I understand daddy but how come it won’t be the same as it used to be
FATHER Just like I said we will know we will see the stain on your face
It will be a horrible stain not similar to simple stains
It won’t be a smirch not a blotch not drop of fat
It will be shame and blood and nose down and horror
STANDARD What horror daddy
FATHER The kind of horror only the snowman experiences
When it melts downs and becomes a puddle do you hear what I say or don’t you
STANDARD I hear I have ears show me daddy the seventh key
FATHER I’m telling you it’s forbidden for you to touch it don’t you remember what I just told you
STANDARD I remember why it’s forbidden daddy
FATHER Because it is the key to the seventh room
STANDARD I want to go to the seventh room very much give me the key why don’t you
FATHER You have no ears
STANDARD I have why are you shouting daddy
FATHER I’m not shouting
STANDARD You are give me the key not those six just that one
FATHER No I’m telling you I forbid you
STANDARD What are you forbidding why are you hiding the most beautiful key
FATHER You fool I’ll wash your brain
STANDARD I’m not a fool don’t beat me I’ll tell services you did
FATHER Are you threatening me
STANDARD I am you are a fool and give me all seven keys now and I won’t scream
FATHER I’ll give you screams
Child screams and claws pounds throws things hits the walls shouts DON’T BEAT ME DON’T BREAK MY ARMS
FATHER Stop I’m telling you
STANDARD Give me the keys I’m telling you
FATHER You bloody fool (gives keys)
STANDARD You are the bloody fool daddy thank you just don’t ever go to the seventh room daddy there you will get bald and your eyes will fall out do you understand
FATHER Whose fucking kid are you
STANDARD It is not allowed to say well yeah let’s and fuck
FATHER Get out of my sight
Child gets out of father’s sight
Father spits stares at his spit on the floor takes a sponge cleans the spit washes the sponge washes his hands put hand cream on his hands like a woman
Scene 7
Taken standard and killed children are standing somewhere where they just don’t fit
For example at build and drive parking lot which has never been used because what bullshit is that
Looking at them inspires some inexplicable suspicions as if they were kind of kindergarten drug dealers
TAKEN Hi why are you so dirty did you fall into paint
STANDARD It’s jam I ate pancakes
KILLED I missed pancakes very much
Mom used to cook them only there never was any jam
I always dreamed a lot about jam
And that daddy didn’t eat all the pancakes but he always did
TAKEN Listen what do you headless one need here
STANDARD Are you stupid
TAKEN Why so stupid
STANDARD He’s killed and you’re with him like he’s alive
TAKEN Well maybe yeah
STANDARD I’d like to see what you would say if you were killed it’s not that bad maybe you would be lying in your own vomit somewhere
TAKEN So where’s your spray can
STANDARD All good there’s gonna be a spray can but first let’s talk business
TAKEN What business
STANDARD Look what I have I took it from daddy
TAKEN What is it some keys
STANDARD Here and six keys and the seventh key you see
TAKEN Well I see
STANDARD You want
TAKEN Want what
STANDARD To see what’s there
TAKEN And what is there
STANDARD I don’t know how can I but I’m going so I thought you would like to go there too
TAKEN I want to of course so show that spray can
He sprays the killed child’s face he doesn’t fight it
KILLED What is it some kind of snow
KILLED Hooray hooray snow
Now I’m a snowman
STANDARD Very good you look so
Dead dead
For real now
KILLED It’s a lot of fun with you here
But I need to go
TAKEN Where are you going
KILLED Further I can’t stand still
I need to go ahead somewhere
STANDARD What are you talking
You’re not right in the head
Better let’s go ahead together
We will take you to seven rooms
You can choose one for you
KILLED It corrodes my face
TAKEN But you have no face
KILLED But it corrodes my face
STANDARD So maybe you’re not killed
TAKEN Maybe you’re just beaten
KILLED But then I should have been able to eat tangerine
STANDARD But we didn’t try go now wash your face
KILLED But I have no hands
STANDARD And maybe you have everything
TAKEN Maybe it turns out your daddy forgave you for the rabbit
KILLED Why are you scaring me let me go
STANDARD But we’re not scaring you
KILLED Don’t break my legs
TAKEN But you have no legs
KILLED Let go of my hands
TAKEN Where are your hands the-re a-re no haaaaaaaands
Taken child and standard child attack killed child
Scolded killed child runs out of the parking lot of build and drive
The audience somehow meaningfully feels that for the first time in the meaningless parking lot there has happened something it turns out that important
Scene 8
Killed child turns into giant rabbit and says an important monologue
Just as important and coherent as it is used to in our state in our eatery in the market
KILLED I thought that maybe it could be different maybe
Maybe it would be possible at least during state
Holidays to say rab-bit
During Christmas for sure and when’s your birthday
My mommy is beautiful
Everyone suspects that there is something a lot more to be said and are sorry that it is just the way it is
Scene 9
Parents of the standard child
Father is counting fertilizers
Wife sits on a pile of fertilizers somewhere maybe in some room maybe in parliament house maybe in space
The conversation is very erotic
FATHER You are so beautiful for so many years now
MOTHER Just for you just for you
MOTHER What did you tell to our kid
FATHER What do you mean what I’ve told him
MOTHER Why is he clanging like a cow
FATHER I don’t know why he’s clanging
MOTHER Maybe he’s traumatized
FATHER Maybe he’s a cow
MOTHER Darling don’t you think it is too white in our house
FATHER It’s very beautiful we only lack a Christmas tree
MOTHER We can’t keep Christmas tree all year long
FATHER Why
MOTHER Spikes will fall
FATHER Plastic doesn’t fall
MOTHER Maybe but I want the real thing
FATHER Not at our house
MOTHER Why
FATHER Then we should change our occupation and start to compost
MOTHER Stop it darling you are so handsome
FATHER Just for you just for you
MOTHER I hope you haven’t told the kid what you plan
FATHER You think I’m an imbecile
MOTHER It will be very good for him there
FATHER Of course I made natural size toy ferrari
MOTHER Makes no sense
FATHER What makes no sense
MOTHER Why toy car if natural size
FATHER You don’t understand anything
MOTHER There he’ll be way better than he would be with us
FATHER Of course
MOTHER You never know where a child could wander off when parents are on holiday when you think
FATHER Very bad things may happen
MOTHER Only we must leave enough food so it is enough and something to drink and how about toilet
FATHER I made one
MOTHER And windows
FATHER No there’s no need he may jump I’ll connect natural window sized screen to his tablet
MOTHER Of course
MOTHER Seven days are very short time
FATHER Are you worried?
MOTHER I’m not worried about anything
FATHER Maybe it just seemed so
MOTHER What am a teacher to you to be worried
MOTHER We only need to cut his nails so he doesn’t get hurt
FATHER Of course the nails
Parents of the standard child are watching porn and making love on the pile of fertilizers and look like two English lambs who have never been cut who eat grass for days somehow sorrowfully and then mate and then go back to the grass
Scene 10
Some voice is audible
There are arousing suspicions that it’s the rabbit talking who before hasn’t said anything what made any sense
Everybody feels relieved that here maybe now he will say something
But relief is a tricky thing
Under the nail is the most interesting part of the nail
It’s a whole universe under the free part of the nail
It is the place where all our troubles are stored
We also forgot one very important thing
Toenails are cut straight and handnails are cut oval
Because so that it wouldn’t grow into skin
What is almost the same as
Government grown into state
What is almost the same
As pneumonia
What is almost the same
As cancer
And cancer kills you ha ha ha
They stare at x-ray photo
They say do you see
Look what a beautiful flower all this is
Or it’s not a flower what organ it what is this
Lungs you say or what why don’t you tell
Doctor takes a look at them at their smiles
Thinks fuck so periphery so Kybartai
And still it’s sad to say
This flower sorry but it’s not lungs
And totally not lungs and not an organ
It’s tumor now I have to go
Scene 11
Home of taken child’s parents
Child protection services officer with unplucked eyebrows and mustache brings back home taken child who is not yet taken.
Parents of taken child are standing inadequately grinning or just open-mouthed but they understand what is going on because they saw it on TV only they never thought such calamity will come to their home
SERVICES Good day
MOTHER Good day where are you going
SERVICES We good day are going inside
MOTHER Why are you holding our son
SERVICES We hold your son because we found him
MOTHER Where did you find him
SERVICES In the yard we found your son where can we sit please
MOTHER Don't sit there we just re-dressed tapestry
SERVICES Very good it will do
SERVICES Your son
MOTHER What with our son
SERVICES Look at all his
MOTHER All his what
SERVICES Belly please
MOTHER What happened baby
TAKEN I accidentally cut it with my nail
MOTHER O god we had to cut it tonight
SERVICES Who had to cut it
MOTHER Father had to
FATHER I didn't have to anything I never cut it
MOTHER Well aren't you stupid
SERVICES So mother or father had to cut it
FATHER Of course mother mother always cut it
SERVICES With what device does the mother cut
FATHER That's the point that I can only cut with scissors and mother
SERVICES With what devices does mother cut it I say show me
TAKEN Mother cut with the cutter
SERVICES What aggressive weapon is that
MOTHER It's baby nails cutter
SERVICES Do you have a baby
MOTHER No
SERVICES So why are you using baby devices what do you think your child is
FATHER I told you long time ago that we should move to scissors
TAKEN I don't want scissors dad it hurts
SERVICES So after all you didn't cut child's nails
SERVICES Why didn't you cut child's nails after all
MOTHER We had to do this tonight we talked a lot about it with my husband
SERVICES You talked and did nothing are you incapacitated
MOTHER Of course we are capable
SERVICES Nails is not a joke
MOTHER Of course it's no joke we won't do that again
SERVICES We will take your child
FATHER Are you joking for nails
SERVICES For wound goodbye
Parents of taken child are crying huge rivers
Scene 12
Killed child has turned into large rabbit stands in the bathroom and is putting toothpaste on a toothbrush
Short father of killed child lies in the corridor seems like he's paralysed of something
FATHER Kid
Child where are you I can't see you
Can you come
KILLED I can't daddy I'm brushing my teeth
FATHER Kid please come I think I
KILLED You think what I can't daddy I'm brushing my teeth
FATHER I think I have a tick
KILLED Where is that tick on you you made it up
FATHER I didn't make it up fuck can you come kid
KILLED Why you call me that
FATHER It's on my back I can't take it out
KILLED I can't toothpaste will fall on the carpet and won't come out
FATHER You need to watch out not to pull off the head because than it grows back
KILLED What grows back
FATHER The tick grows back haven't you heard
KILLED Big thing
FATHER Tick are spreading horrible diseases
KILLED Wowza
FATHER Are you coming or not I told you
KILLED Give the insect the chance to drink it's thirsty
FATHER I can't move are you blind can't you fucking see
KILLED Well I'm sorry that I am brushing my teeth at the same time when you have a tick on your back
FATHER Come here I told you
KILLED It's coincidence daddy
FATHER Get the tick out you hear!
KILLED It's interesting that when you have the tick it doesn't hurt at all there could be hundred ticks at once it still wouldn't hurt it's very interesting insect I'm going to rinse daddy it's important that it doesn't hurt and you don't bleed
Father rolls like a sausage in a pan
Child rinses his mouth in every possible rinsing and gargling ways
He tries to feel what this new life as a rabbit means when you can fuck with daddy who used to fuck you up
Scene 13
Parents of taken child sit on the sofa not close to each other on the contrary far from each other look like neighbours but well we would like to see how you would sit after a visit of child protection services
Empty house silence of a horror movie curtains move a little a pen falls down the table wind rises behind the window night sets
MOTHER Why didn't you learn to cut nails right after he was born
FATHER That's not what we should be thinking about now
MOTHER I've told you a thousand times to learn to cut nails I won't be able to do that all the time and this was the situation when I really couldn't
FATHER Because why
MOTHER Because I was tired from all that nail cutting snot pulling life you understand
FATHER Well, now you can rest
MOTHER What are you talking about you asshole
FATHER Sorry I took it after you
MOTHER Me you're sick maybe take a look at our home how are we going to live now
FATHER I don't know how we are going to live you think I have no heart I'm not thinking about it
MOTHER I don't think that you're also human
FATHER Right when spring came and violets has blossomed
MOTHER Birds are singing did you hear them sing last night
FATHER Of course I heard and thought how were they singing then in old days when
MOTHER When what
FATHER When we used to lie in the forest under hunters’ tower and next to us all these napkins and leaves
MOTHER You still remember
FATHER Of course I remember when I need to think about something when something like this
MOTHER So you think about me at such hard moment
MOTHER About me naked it turns out
FATHER And what you think about
MOTHER About the child our child with blue eyes bad teeth if they saw the teeth it would’ve been even worse
FATHER Stop thinking now
MOTHER For fuck’s sake he’s thinking about sex our kid has been taken and he thinks about sex for fuck’s sake what are you human fucking father or not where did you come from at all to my fucking life I would’ve lived a true teacher’s life without any deviations and now you can’t cut fucking nails CAN’T CUT FUCKING NAILS that’s a comedy that’s a horror film well that’s new why are you staring at me like an ass
FATHER You didn’t get my point
MOTHER Yeah what fucking point
FATHER That I miss you like I miss the child
FATHER Child’s taken and that’s why I miss him and you haven’t been taken and still you see how it goes
MOTHER Like I haven’t gotten enough of my problems he fucking misses me
FATHER Why are you cursing so much
MOTHER I don’t know such fucking faze came on I can’t stop
FATHER Don’t cry
MOTHER I’m not fucking crying do you see me crying what am I to you a cry baby fuck we can’t talk tonight at all
FATHER Well
FATHER Well truly
Mother starts crying softly in feminine way as a ladybird would cry
Father doesn’t know what to do and how to make go away thoughts about human’s natural primitive desire to have sex here and now after the child has been taken
Scene 14
Taken child and standard child find the seventh room unlock it and enter
It’s a wonderland of course depends on how you imagine wonderland
But it has ferrari for sure
TAKEN We can’t go in there
STANDARD Sissy this is my home
TAKEN And what if it’s dangerous
STANDARD What you don’t see what’s here
STANDARD It’s a dream
TAKEN My dream is different
STANDARD What is your dream
TAKEN I’d like to have a brother so I don’t have to live alone at Dalia and Liubomiras’ place
STANDARD What is it
TAKEN Dogs I live with
STANDARD Where are your parents
TAKEN At home
STANDARD So why aren’t you with them
TAKEN I’ve been taken
STANDARD So they beat you
TAKEN No
STANDARD So why
TAKEN They didn’t cut my nails and it had grown back
STANDARD Look at the car
Suddenly doors are closed by standard child’s father who has just come in
Children meet him with confetti
Children are amused in somehow creepy way father not at all
He would love to be watching porn now but he’s in children’s room and has to play some non-pornographic games
FATHER Kids
STANDARD Daddy have a seat
FATHER Why kids have you come here I’ve told you
STANDARD Daddy why is here such a room
FATHER Let me tell you baby
STANDARD So tell us why don’t you
FATHER I was looking for you and you’re here with a friend we were scared
STANDARD So why is here such a room
FATHER Me and your mommy are going away for a while
STANDARD I want too
FATHER And you will stay in this room I brought you food for a few days and then we’ll be back and bring you a cake
STANDARD Okay daddy now sit here
FATHER Okay I’ll sit you’re playing here
STANDARD Uh-huh we’re playing now we will put you a blindfold daddy let us
FATHER There’s no time for that boys
STANDARD For you there never is time let us to put blindfold on you don’t be lame
FATHER Well okay we can play a little
FATHER Why aren’t you saying anything boys
FATHER Only you will have to be here alone the friend has to go home
STANDARD He’s not going anywhere he wants to be here
FATHER Well okay as you wish only there may be not enough food
STANDARD It will be enough daddy give your hands
FATHER What are you doing here
STANDARD We’re playing daddy it’s impossible to play with you
FATHER Okay okay
STANDARD We’re playing snowman
Taken child and standard child take father of the standard child a hostage
STANDARD Now you will have to recite word to word what you’ve said to your baby last Thursday at four o’clock sixteen minutes
FATHER I don’t remember
STANDARD Don’t say you don’t remember
FATHER I really don’t remember anything
STANDARD But there’s a record of it
FATHER I deleted it
STANDARD But there’s protocol
FATHER I erased it
TAKEN But there’s head
FATHER I don’t have one
TAKEN Where’s your head
FATHER Boys what’s going on here
TAKEN Where’s your baby
FATHER I don’t know let me go he’s big now he walks talks and thinks
STANDARD Now you publicly admit that you are idiot
FATHER I’m not
TAKEN You are don’t lie you don’t remember anything you have no head you ruined the kid
FATHER I didn’t
STANDARD Do you understand why are we asking you to remember that Thursday
FATHER I don’t
STANDARD Because then a signal of you planning something horrible has been given that you plan to ban something to hurt someone you’re a cop in heart and maybe even have a dream about Kremlin or a cake with plastic figures of dwarves
FATHER I don’t have a dream I don’t dream at all
TAKEN You’re wrong in the head give us your head we want to use it for our purposes
FATHER I won’t
STANDARD We ask you nicely once again to remember that Thursday and repeat to us those words which are connected to our freedom and our happiness our heads
FATHER I don’t remember
TAKEN Why have you erased the record
FATHER Accidentally
TAKEN Why do you have such huge ears
FATHER I don’t know
TAKEN Why you have such a huge mouth
FATHER I don’t know boys
STANDARD Now you will be burned in a white snowdrift please don’t scream don’t make noise we would offer you alcohol before death but it’s Sunday after three
A huge rabbit comes in
They clog father’s mouth
A very funny music is on
Children try to pull off father’s head children are having fun as it is fun to play with artificial snow and you suddenly realize why it is written on the can to avoid fire and keep where children can’t reach it
KILLED Now you will be a snowman
Don’t be afraid
It may be cold in the beginning then maybe it’ll be hot
But that’s how it is in life
Sometimes it’s hot sometimes it’s cold
Don’t be afraid to relax you’re going for eternal sleep now like a bear in a snowdrift
Kisses
Children spray artificial snow on the father
Father becomes a snowman
Children put the room on fire and leaves eternally and it’s unknown how many survive and how many don’t
But it is absolutely clear that it’s time to ban artificial snow at state level
Darkness
“Human showed another human a drawing, laughed at it, it wasn’t to publicly mock or something. It depends on taste. I look at it as some kind of humor, which maybe has crossed some lines but what are you going to do — we live in a society where it’s acceptable,” R. Karbauskis.
The end
