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Atlantis
Lally Katz
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Atlantis
Lally Katz
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Lally Katz is on a journey. She's left Australia behind and she's in the country of her childhood, trying to find a way back to when things were innocent. Her relationships are chaotic, her professional life is a shambles and contemporary America seems riddled with charlatans and shysters. But along the way moments of wisdom bubble up, as if from some lost ancient city beneath the waves off Florida...
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The fabulous Lally Katz once again mines her life - both real and imaginative - for an epic story lined with romantic dilemmas and unforgettable encounters. A grand adventure through cynical times, but infused with Lally's unwavering optimism.
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ThéùtreACT TWO
SCENE ONE
A PILOT speaks.
PILOT: Good evening, folks. We have begun our descent into New York City. We will be landing at JFK Airport in approximately twenty minutes. I hope youâve enjoyed your flight with us. Youâll notice how dark it is below, there are many areas of New York still without power after the hurricane. And New York continues to be on high alert for a second hurricane.
LALLY: [to the audience] New York City. Speeding through the darkened New York streets in a taxi, I sit in the front seat next to the driver. I feel itâs safe because sheâs a woman. The driver has a long, thin, pale brown ponytail. I notice very soon that she is missing a lot of key teeth. Sheâs overweight, but only loosely. She, like everyone else in this story, is a real person.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: First time to New York?
LALLY: No. I live in Australia. But I was born in New Jersey.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Jerseyânow Jersey got hit even worse than we did.
LALLY: I hope my grandparents are okay. Theyâre in a really nice retirement village.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: A hurricane donât care how ritzy their place is. If it wants to hit, it hits. Where you staying?
LALLY: Airbnb.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Ainât that illegal in New York now?
LALLY: I think so.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Well, donât go getting in trouble. After the hurricane itâs impossible to get gas. My husbandâs loser brother is trying, but heâs a loser.
LALLY: Youâre married?
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: I got a common-law husband.
LALLY: Thatâs nice.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Well, it ainât no picnic. Heâs got seven kids. Ranging from six years old to nineteen. I ainât their birth mother. My husband had âem with his first wife. But sheâs a drug addict now and hardly ever wants to see them. Just if they can do something for her. Itâs real hard on the kids, you know. Especially the middle kids. The older ones have learnt to know better, and the younger ones know me better than they knew her. We keep praying sheâll get her life together. Sheâs always asking me for money, but the only salary I got is from driving the cab. My husbandâs got a disability, so he canât work. And this salary donât go far with seven kids. Plus Iâm trying to put some away.
LALLY: Wow. Youâre an angel.
[To the audience] What a great character!
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Well, I got a belief. That helps. Have you ever heard of the lost city of Atlantis?
LALLY: Sure. The myth?
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Itâs no myth. It was a real cityâwhere everything was perfect. They were real advanced in everything. And then it got taken underwater. Some say that Atlantis was greater than Asia and Africa in size. But I donât think it was really that big. One day and one night Atlantis was taken over by the sea. If it was as big as they said, it would have taken at least a week. But I suppose the sea is powerful though. And Atlantis is still down there under the sea. Thatâs my belief. That soon weâll all be taken back to Atlantis. Thatâs why thereâs the hurricanes and the floods we been getting so much of lately. So Iâm saving up all the money I can, to move my family to Florida, so weâll be the first people taken back there.
LALLY: Miamiâs in Florida! Will that be taken by the sea?
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: Of course. Everybody knows that. Miamiâll be the first city to go. Itâs a shame, because Iâd rather move to Orlando. I got a cousin there.
LALLY: [to the audience] What she says kind of makes sense to me. Even if she is saving up all her money to take her family to Florida to drown them. I realise that to me, Miamiâs already under the sea. Perfectly preserved, in another time. Itâs already an Atlantis. The Miami that I would want to findâmy childhood, my family home, my pantherâare unreachable in time. And time is just as powerful as the sea.
NEW YORK TAXI DRIVER: My belief is what keeps me going. The worldâs not like it was. Itâs people, you know. The weather is acting like the people. Nobody cares about nobody no more. Everyone mindinâ their own business, lookinâ after their own interests. Didnât used to be li...