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A Play: - THE STAKE OUT - A Long Weekend

CHAPTER COMES WITHIN ŢANITH ƒANG (Volume)

A Play by Samson MJEE Turnerton Performed Across Three Nights as follows


Title

The Stake Out – A Long Weekend


Documents Required:

The Artefacts

Narration Notes

Riddles

Poems

Twooter

Pictures

Answers



ACT 1

Title

CLINGING ON FOR ONE LAST PARTY, Daily Mirror.

(§See Artefact 1)



SCENE 1


Title

Choosing Bands and Why We Like Them & Their Lyrics:

God Knows


Location

132 Chipperfield Road, Burmingham, West Mercia, United States of Gerestonamn.


Present In Body

Mathew D. Dresβson (Mathew)


Present In Mind

Maya Jama

Ţanith ƒang

(Gerest/SHIM Returned Question – Artefact coming)

Louise Swindler, Norman Swindler, Marcus Dresβson, Dominic Wardourk, James Noëls, Raymundu Bærk, Faye Bærk, Charmlie Barstom, Mark Amate Lyon, Kit MacDonald, Unnamed TAB, Amma Huges, Henry Huges, JC, Starr, Thom Dresβson, Alison Dresβson, Harvey Westmorelam, E.V.E (Stellar), Timmy Smalls



Scenery

Brown leather armchair;

Laptop, phone,

Singing Bowl

Clothes/Washing

Notes & papers and art (lots)

And books


{§LIGHTS UP}


Narration Notes 1

Mathew is Sat in a comfy brown faux-leather armchair, certainly not Italian; probably from the Swedish co. IMEA.

He is eating the CAKE he had made, off the cuff (See Picture 1)

He has a studio room within the place.


{The end of Angie by The Rolling Stones plays through Mathew’s Apple Mac Laptop}


MATHEW

[Writing up recent events]


VOICE Still can’t believe that packet of pancakes, 6 right? It just fell off the shelf. The guy was there, saw it. CCTV too – verified. Still,, then drop.

Nobody touch’it.

The Spirit Acts just enough hey.

(Long Pause)

{Heartbreaker by Metronomy plays next}

Mathew

[Gets up walks over to something for nothing at all and sits back down]


VOICE Cus The Machine knows The Will (document to come)

And Acts Through its Thing (Totum-Summa Corpus)



VOICE Audience, please now see Narration Notes 2, let us read


Narration Notes 2


He’s thinking about his mates all waiting in line fucking the other half of his heart.

It the person takes many names, but It The Thing that felt like his.

Non-binary, 22, mixed Silly Isles-Geresti with The People’s Oriental United Five.

Yes, They were spice.


Passport says Tanith Fang.


VOICE He cannot resist reaching for his phone, can he?!


{The Same Album shuffles to On The Motorway)


Mathew “I love this song!!”

[Typing & reading too]

“Let’s let ‘em have a good time tonight - Ay”

[Updating Twooter handle]


VOICE

See Twoot 1, if you pleae


TWOOT 1


I’ll be at The Wall looking at The Writing


§Hu! –


Mathew “§Hu! – (O§??I?)”

[Gets up urgently then returns to his chair to Twoot]


VOICE See Twoot 2

TWOOT 2

NO MANGO MEANS

They have a plan for US (this plan is not mine)

SHIM Lies SHIM Knows

NO MANGO means MAN Knows (on clock)

they are on my time, so, enjoy

have a good time making money with Our….you know

the Rugby

@ the Rugby – you know they are a Slave, right,

a child right, not of

SOUND MIND


[Clicks send]


Mathew

[Gets up to tidy away his washing and a few bits before refraining from striking his Singing Bowl and sitting back down to his phone, typing as he speaks angrily

Turns to scrawling on his papers, quite neat]


VOICE This part is really quite crucial my Squire


Mathew “Your Blood is on The Wall, SHIM, and The Will, and yours E”

He presses skip to Everything Goes My Way, by the same BAN’D. (sic)


Mathew “Fuck me, how does this happen?”

[shouting, then turning back to write a note]


VOICE HE WRITES:


Choosing Bands and Why We Like Them & Their Lyrics:

God Knows


Mathew Title!

[He puts the kettle on and while it boils he hits apprehensively (so twice) the Singing Bowl then fiddles with some things, including coins and laces, and returns while the thing is singing.]


VOICE HE WRITES,

SEE RIDDLE 1


RIDDLE 1


185!(+5) 190(+1) 200

AND SAYS

Mathew “Your First Riddle

Remember Judges:13?


Put a pin in it


[He stands back up and strikes his Singing Bowl again, why not

and then presses play on The Bay by Metronomy]


Does Tanith even have their phone? How like a child are they treating um….


They are in and out of the suicidal – For Fuck’s Sake.


They are Fuck,

[and shouts]

Saké


VOICE Saké indeed.


Mathew “CNC – SHITTING HELL!!!!! This is serious.


[Calms and returns to write]


VOICE He clicks send on an email to

THE THING with

THE WILL

attached


LIGHTS OUT (A§ide – see this song by Your Biggest Fanclub, if you can, if not

God Damn)





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