Happy New Year! And... Play #1: TIDINGS

Trying something new.  Happy New Year!

1: TIDINGS - by Ed Valentine
© January 1, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: A WOMAN sits, surrounded by papers. Piles, mountains, mounds, of papers. Her hands are smudged with ink and she types furiously on a calculator.

WOMAN: O. O o o o o O. Carry the seven seven times seven and on and on and…

(Types. Types. Murmurs. The paper spews out wildly from the calculator. WOMAN screams. Then, a small blue ANGEL descends.)

ANGEL: Tidings!

WOMAN: Yes.

ANGEL: And –

WOMAN: Yes?

ANGEL: Tidy-ings.

WOMAN: Yes? YES.

(She shoves the huge stacks of paper offstage in 3 great shoves. The stage is clear. The sky-scrim is blue night. The ANGEL smiles.)

And?

ANGEL: Yes. Now it can begin.

(Clears throat, shakes wings. Sings:)

Aaaah!

(The ANGEL is joined by other ANGELS. Or maybe just their voices.)

ALL ANGELS: AAAAH!!!

(They sing the sun up. The dawn brightens. A new year begins.)


END OF PLAY.