EXCERPTS
PLAYS
- LIGHT BURGERS WALTZING THROUGH THE GARDEN WITH JOE
FRANK: Afternoon, Merrillee. You going somewhere? MERRILLEE: With 'it'. The Light's coming here tonight and I'm going with it. GEORGE: See! What did I tell you. Come on in, Merrillee, have a seat. L.E.: Don't encourage her, George. Dragging a suitcase. Talking crazy. FRANK: Merrillee, you sure you're feeling all right? MERRILLEE: I'm just fine, Frank, thank you. Hiidee, Mason. Good to see you again. (she waves/Mason acknowledges and she goes to a booth) George, you mind if I sit in this booth? GEORGE: About that booth....I don't mind, but I can't have you sitting there all night without ordering food. You know, on account of the turn over and people being partial to a booth.... MERRILLEE: I don't have to eat it, do I? GEORGE: No, Ma'am, you just have to pay for it. MERRILLEE: (pulling out a wad of money) Here, you take this now and whenever you think about turning it over you just bring me something you think they'd order. FRANK: You better be careful flashing money around like that, somebody will steal it. MERRILLEE: Doesn't matter to me, I won't need it where I'm going. L.E.: (to George/Mason) See what you've done. FRANK: Now, Merrillee, even if something was to come tonight what makes you think it's ready to land and take passengers with it? MERRILLEE: It told me. MASON: You talked to it? MERRILLEE: After I introduced myself ... of course. L.E.: Merrillee, you can't go around introducing yourself to everything and everybody. MERRILLEE: It doesn't mean any harm. L.E.: What somebody means and what happens can be two totally different things. MERRILLEE: You don't have to worry. Why I've seen it every night it's been out. At first I thought it was just a coincidence that I was looking at it. Then after a while I began to realize it was looking at me. FRANK: Merrillee, you best take care, since the light started shining we got a lot of strange people in town doing a lot of strange things. I wouldn't put it past any one of them to be leering in your bedroom window. MERRILLEE: No, it was them. I know. You can tell when a UFO is in your presence. You can feel it. Sometimes you can hear it. If you have any electrical devices on like a TV or radio the picture will blur and all you can hear is the sound of static .... SSSRRRRSSSSRRRR