- 64 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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An Incident at the Border
About this book
"When we came for a romantic walk in the park, we didn't think we would be involved in an international crisis...This side of the line, that side of the line. Does it really make that much of a difference which side I am from?"
When a country's new border is drawn, a couple are divided by the line. Under the rigorous eyes of a brand new border guard, they are trapped in an increasingly absurd nightmare, stuck in between two aggressive nations on the verge of war. A comic new play exploring the imaginary lines that divide us and the severe penalties for breaking them...
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A bench. A beautiful day. Arthur and OLIVIA. She reads a newspaper.
OLIVIA: ‘The country is now a republic. It has officially become independent from the neighbouring land. The details of the independence have all been finalised, though not yet released, so it is not clear whether both sides were completely satisfied with the final terms, nor is it clear what plans either country has for its new-found independence.’ Amazing.
ARTHUR: I wish I was a duck.
OLIVIA: Today is one of those days.
ARTHUR: I’d make a good duck.
OLIVIA: This will be one of those days that everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news.
ARTHUR: Why are you reading a newspaper?
OLIVIA: I am trying to become more involved.
ARTHUR: In what?
OLIVIA: The world. When people talk about me, I want them to say, ‘Olivia is really involved.’
ARTHUR: I don’t want to be involved.
OLIVIA: I want to feel like part of the world.
ARTHUR: I don’t want anything to do with the world.
OLIVIA: I want to have opinions.
ARTHUR: I don’t want any opinions.
OLIVIA: I want to have educated opinions.
ARTHUR: I just want to live in the park.
OLIVIA: It seems like the world is divided into two groups of people: people who do things, and people who don’t do things.
ARTHUR: I want to live in a tree house.
OLIVIA: I’m one of the ones who doesn’t do things.
ARTHUR: You can come and live with me.
OLIVIA: Arthur, I already live with you.
ARTHUR: I mean in the tree house.
OLIVIA: What tree house?
ARTHUR: It would have a little wooden door. Little wooden chairs.
OLIVIA: A little wooden table.
ARTHUR: A wooden bookcase.
OLIVIA: A log fireplace.
ARTHUR: A log fireplace, in a tree house? That is very unsafe.
OLIVIA: Won’t it get cold in the winter?
ARTHUR: I suppose so. If I was a duck I wouldn’t have to worry about the cold.
OLIVIA: I think you would make a good duck.
ARTHUR: Well, so do I, as it happens.
OLIVIA: Except you don’t like flying.
ARTHUR: No.
OLIVIA: And that is half the battle.
ARTHUR: No, but I’m a good swimmer, and that is the other half.
OLIVIA: I just don’t want the other ducks to make fun of you for not liking flying.
ARTHUR: They won’t. I am a tough duck.
OLIVIA: Are you?
ARTHUR: No one tells this duck what to do.
OLIVIA: I like that.
Silence.
OLIVIA: ... We should come here more often.
ARTHUR: We should.
OLIVIA: Sit by the lake.
ARTHUR: Amongst the trees.
OLIVIA: Look at the water.
ARTHUR: The air tastes different.
OLIVIA: The stillness of the water.
ARTHUR: It feels like we have left the real world behind.
OLIVIA: It is so peaceful.
REIVER enters from behind the bench. He is rolling a thick white line of tape along the ground. He rolls it over the back of the bench, forming a line in between OliviA and Arthur. They watch silently. He takes out a radio.
REIVER: George? I’m going to take a few minutes break. Is that all right with you George? It’s just that I’ve got some fudge in my pocket George, and I want to get at it before it melts. Thanks George. What’s that George? What? Oh, vanilla.
He puts the radio away, takes out the fudge and begins eating it.
OLIVIA: ... Excuse me?
REIVER: Me?
OLIVIA: Yes.
REIVER: What?
OLIVIA: What are you doing?
REIVER: Eating.
OLIVIA: What is that?
REIVER: The border.
OLIVIA: The border?
REIVER: Yes.
OLIVIA: ... Of what?
REIVER: Of the country.
OLIVIA: What?
REIVER: That is the border of the country.
OLIVIA: Which country?
REIVER: Depends which side you are standing on.
ARTHUR: That isn’t the border. The border is miles away.
REIVER: Was miles away. Now it has moved to here.
ARTHUR: You can’t move a border a couple of miles.
REIVER: Why not?
ARTHUR: I don’t know. You just can’t.
OLIVIA: It did say in the newspaper that not all of the terms of the independence had been released. I suppose the border move was one of those details. It also mentioned something about a reduction in powers in certain global forums and possible tax increases, but we do get our own national anthem.
REIVER: Wow. You’re really involved.
OLIVIA: Thank you. I try to be.
ARTHUR: So the border is moving here?
REIVER: ...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Character
- Chapters