Script samples (20 minutes version):
Copyright © Robert Reed All Rights Reserved
Scene 1, Planet Zargon 5:
ZORK: Can you believe it, Zindy? After seventy years of working over-over time in Empress Min's plutonium hot dog factory we finally have two weeks holiday and we're going to Earth!
ZINDY: Yippee! (Pause.) What's Earth?
... continued
Scene 2, Tower Hamlets public library:
(LIBRARIAN sitting behind desk. Enter TWO BOOK LOVERS who form a queue carrying books. Enter ELVIS covering face from audience with large book and sitting.)
(Model spacecraft is carried by hands from right and landed. Enter ZORK, ZINDY and EMPRESS MIN.)
ZORK: Welcome to London, host city to the 30th Summer Olympic Games. (Whispering.) This is Tower Hamlets library: it's where we are going to find information about the Olympics.
(Zork, Zindy and Empress Min join the queue behind the Two Book Lovers. Empress Min pats Book Lover 1 on the shoulder.)
EMPRESS MIN: Hey, earthling, I'm hungry!
(Two Book Lovers turn, scream and exit.)
ZINDY: Do you think they noticed we were aliens?
LIBRARIAN: Of course, you are. And, the man sitting behind me is Elvis.
ELVIS: (Lowering book.) Thank you, very much. (Covering face again.)
LIBRARIAN: How can I help you?
ZORK: We need the biggest book about the Olympics in the universe, please.
(Librarian reaches under her table and holds up book entitled 'The Biggest Book About The Olympics In The Universe'.)
LIBRARIAN: Yes, it's just in. You can sit there and enjoy it. (Pause.) But, no noise in my library, even if you think you're from a galaxy far away.
(Zork and Zindy sit and open the book.)
EMPRESS MIN: Can I have a double cheeseburger with fries?
LIBRARIAN: No.
(Empress Min sits at table.)
ZORK: (Opening book.) The first chapter is about the history of the Olympic Games.
... continued
Copyright © Robert Reed All Rights Reserved
Synopsis:
Zork and Zindy travel to Earth with, the less than perfectly behaved, Empress Min to discover all about the Olympic Games. They learn about the Ancient Greek Olympics; the first Modern Games held in 1896 in Athens; famous Olympic athletes; and the Queen pops into Tower Hamlets library to talk about the 2012 London Games. Finally, Empress Min decides to hold Olympics
on Zargon 5.
Cast:
ZORK
ZINDY
EMPRESS MIN (F)
2 NARRATORS
ANCIENT OLYMPIC COMMENTATOR
QUEEN (F)
VIZIER (M)
LIBRARIAN (F)
HALL OF FAME HOST
2 GUARDSMEN
SPIROS (M)
ELVIS (M)
COROEBUS
JESSE OWENS
ADI DASSLER
PRINCE PHILLP
3 ADMIRERS (F)
Non-speaking roles:
LAUNCESTON ELLIOT (M)
ARRHACHION
2 BOOK LOVERS
3 ANCIENT GREEK SPECTATORS
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