February 4 Play: THE NEGLECTED BUSINESSMEN

35: THE NEGLECTED BUSINESSMEN - by Ed Valentine
© February 4, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: Four Japanese businessmen around a restaurant table. Bones of a big ugly fish on a platter. A fifth businessman slumped over, dead.

BUSINESSMAN 4: Hey! We’re from that play you never typed in. We’ve been sitting here. Doing nothing.

BUSINESSMAN 3: Like so many failures, may I add.

BUSINESSMAN 2: Dishonor!

BUSINESSMAN 1: We can never go home. And this fish stinks.

BUSINESSMAN 4: There’s a saying in our town: “Never eat day-old sushi.” You’ve made us into day-old sushi.

ALL 4: Let us live!

BUSINESSMAN 4: Sincerely: The Corporation.

(They bow. Stare out. Lights out.)

END OF PLAY.