Features Artist-in-Residence Published 17 April 2012

An Aphorism

The second in our ongoing series of 100W plays by Kicking K.

Kicking K

Empty simulator in a museum, attendant. Mother, buggy, toddler.

MOTHER: && It free?
ATTENDANT: (A sign) The prices are all here.
MOTHER: Can’t afford it.
Toilet round here?

ATTENDANT points. Exit MOTHER, leaving buggy and CHILD.

ATTENDANT: && You can’t just.
Unbelievable.

ATTENDANT kneels before child.

ATTENDANT: && Unsupervised kids get removed. Fire regulations. I would have told your mum. If she wasn’t an ignorant cow.
What’s your name?
You don’t know, do you. Maybe you haven’t got one.
(Laughs) She’s probably climbed out a window.
(Stops laughing) That’s not funny.
How do I even know she’s coming back?
CHILD: Because without love freedom has no unit of measurement.

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