This piece is for two performers.

There are a series of tasks, commanded and performed. There are moments of disruption. But they are met swiftly with the threat of an unknown punishment.

One person occupies the stage. Without emotion or any recognition of self awareness. Joined by a second, they do not speak directly to each other, but give fragmented instructions. The Trapped in an endless parade of tasks and actions, with limited rewards.

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The stage is littered with objects, like a small room thats been expanded. There is a distant quite ambient sound of some kind of machinery. 

Objects:-Ironing Board, typewriter, 3 chairs, 4 tea chests, hats, small tables, lamps, bunch of keys, an enamel washing bowl and pitcher, toys, piles of news papers, books in a pile, VHS films, blankets, old telephone, camera, answer machine. 

The stage lights darken a phone rings an old fashioned bell type. A man appears, stops at the edge, pauses, comes onto the stage area, walks to the phone, he goes to pick it up, it stops before he does…………an unseen voice speaks out over a loud speaker

“ Your late…”