eleven
11. (9/24/2009)
полиция памяти
(memory police)
part one.
Four imposing members of some form of secret police.
Yellow jumpsuits.
Masks covering their faces.
We can see their eyes through large vinyl sheets.
They carry metal detectors.
They carry emp devices.
They check for levels of radiation.
KATYR
May I help you gentlemen?
GRIGORI
No matter ma’am.
We’ll find it if we must.
KATYR
What is it you are searching for mr…
GRIGORI
No.
KATYR
Mr. No?
GRIGORI
No.
No I will not tell you my name.
It won’t matter.
You’ll forget it.
A person can only give out their name so many times before he runs out of syllables in his life.
KATYR
Excuse me?
GRIGORI
It doesn’t matter.
You’ve already forgotten it.
KATYR
May I help you gentlemen?
GRIGORI
It happens like this every time.
KATYR
What is it you are searching for mr.
ERMOLAI
Why don’t you have a seat Mrs. Petrovitch.
You’re husband is hiding something here and we have to find it.
KATYR
Mr. No?
ERMOLAI
Ah.
She’s worse than I thought.
GRIGORI
Same conversation I had with her three days ago.
ERMOLAI
Has she slept?
GRIGORI
No sir.
KATYR
Excuse me?
ERMOLAI
She’ll have to be put down.
Or at the very least sent away.
What kind of man could do this to the woman he loved?
KATYR
May I help you gentlemen?
ERMOLAI
Just don’t respond.
Let her, go.
Poor thing.
GRIGORI
Have you found anything, yet sir?
KATYR
What is it you are searching for mr…
ERMOLAI
some small contraband.
Pictures.
Video camera.
Tape recorder.
Nothing more than a few months jail time.
But we know it’s in this house somewhere.
GRIGORI
Where should we look?
KATYR
Mr. No?
ERMOLAI
Tomorrow morning,
We’re going to demolish the entire house.
That way,
If its here and we miss it,
At least we destroy it.
So no one can have it.
GRIGORI
Good thinking.
KATYR
Excuse me?
Lights down.
The sun sets.
Katyr stands center stage.
A carpet lifts up underneath the coffee table.
A man emerges holding a box with holes.
It glows bright through cracks in the wood.
He is Yasha, Katyr’s husband.
KATYR
May I help you gentlemen?
YASHA
No, no, katyr it’s me.
KATYR
What is it you’re searching for mr…
YASHA
Katyr…
It’s your husband.
Yasha.
It’s Yasha.
KATYR
Mr. No?
YASHA
What’s wrong with you?
KATYR
Excuse me?
YASHA
WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?
KATYR
May I help you gentlemen?
YASHA
Katyr.
Snap out of it.
I found it.
I found it.
KATYR
What is it you are searching for mr…?
YASHA
The light, Katyr.
It’s in here.
I found it.
KATYR
Mr. No?
YASHA
Please.
Yasha kisses Katyr.
She doesn’t move at all.
KATYR
Excuse Me?
YASHA
I love you katyr.
Please know that.
Please know I didn’t want to do this.
He goes to leave.
KATYR
May I help you gentlemen?
He turns around.
Looks at the box.
Returns and places it on the coffee table in front of her.
He opens the box.
Blinding light fills the stage.
KATYR
What…
What…
YASHA
Yes, Katyr?
Yes?
KATYR
What is it you are searching for mr…
Yasha closes the box.
He exits.
Defeated.
End part one.
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