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A play wot I wrote (it's only 3 pages )

Actually it's more a review sort of..

Holocaust XXXVIII The revenge strikes back
ON A STAGE STAND A JEWISH MOTHER (JM), AN ANGRY JEWISH SON (AJS), A NAZI (N), A NICE JEWISH GIRL (NJG) and Wardrobe Assistant (WA)
NJG

Gosh it"s great living in 1930s Germany.
AJS

But that Hitler has just been elected, if only we Jews would fight!
N

Achtung Juden!
PLAY WRITE (PW) WALKS ON AND HITS N WITH A SCRIPT
PW

No! No! You are nice Nazi at the moment, who the Jews talk trust. You only become a nasty Nazi later! Did you not read the script?
N

Sorry sir, no sir, had a late night sir.
PW
You're not even supposed to be dressed as a Nazi yet. Where are your school boy shorts symbolising your innocence?
N

Forgot them sir.
PW

Then do it in your pants!
N TAKES OFF TROUSERS AND STANDS DRESSED AS A NAZI OTHER THAN HE'S WEARING HIS UNDERPANTS
NJG

I do love nice Nazi, even if our love is forbidden.
JM (WHO ACTUALLY HAS A STRONG BIRMINGHAM ACCENT)

Oi very gevalt, I wish my poor Harold was here, such times, I'm glad my poor Harold isn't alive to see us. Such times. Gevalt anyone fancy some soup?
AJS

Don't worry mum in every generation they rise up to kill us; Pharoah, Haman, Hitler, Arthur Pilchard at the town planning committee.
N

Arthur Pilchard?
PW
(OOV)
Read the script you imbecile!
NJG

Yes that Arthur Pilchard is the worst. I wrote about him in my diary.
N
I
love you Jews, you've been so nice to me. No true German could turn on you.
PW WALKS ON AND SMASHES A MILK BOTTLE
AJS

Eek it's Kristallnacht! Lets fight the Nazis. No lets not.
NJG

Dear diary I hope the nice Nazi saves us, he's so lovely even if this is a self hating stereotype.
JM

Oi gevalt, all my sons and daughters. Where is my Harold?
HECKLER

He's dead!
PW

Bloody shut up. This isn't The Sound of Music.
HECKLER

At least that had songs!
JM

Hitler, Arthur Pilchard such evil. Oi how will we survive this?
N
I
hate you Jews, Achtung Juden!
PW OOV

Put your bloody trousers on, you're a Nazi now!
N PUTS TROUSERS ON
N

Achtung Juden!
PW OOV

And you Jews put your pyjamas on!
JEWS WALK OFF AND COME ON WEARING JM (A SEXY BASQUE), AJS A SEXY BASQUE, NJG PADDINGTON BEAR PYJAMAS
PW OOV

Bloody hell where are the striped ones?
AJS

Don't blame us, the Almeira is remaking Cabaret, and Cameron Mackintosh is opening Schindler's List the Opera.
N WALKS OFF AND WALKS AND WALKS ON WITH AN ALSATIaN IN A STRIPED CAP.
JM

Oh now that is offensive and I'm not even Jewish.
PW OOV

Don't be so Judocentric. Hitler killed all sorts, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, alsatians.
NJG

He killed one alsatian, his own Blondie after taking her for walks and feeding her wiener shnitzel for 5 years.
N

I heard Eva Braun used to kick her.
PW OOV

That's it., Plays over all the Jews die of Typhus.
EVERYONE INCLUDING N FALLS TO THE GROUND
PW

Not you Nazi read the bloody script!
N GETS UP
N FACES THE AUDIENCE
N

And the whole of the cliched Jewish family died. But there will always be tyrants Hitler, Pharoah, Tony Blair

N GIVES THE AUDIENCE A WINK AND MAKEs APPLAUSE HAND GESTURES

and of course Arthur Pilchard.
PW STORMS ON STAGE

Who turned down my application to build a writing studio in my garden. Hear that Arthur f**king Pilchard I'm calling you a Nazi ha!
JEWS GET UP
JM

Of course some people would say the modern Holocaust play is just a ragbag of poorly researched cliches, used to push forward what ever agenda is bugging some unimaginative playwrite.
N

Where you don't even need to learn the script.
WARDROBE ASSISSTANT FLOUNCES ON
WA

Sorry lovies I just got a call. Stephen Spielberg owns Intellectual Property on the Holocaust.
AJS

So now what do we do.
WA

Easy lovey you're all Rwandans!
WA SMEARS CAST'S FACE WITH BOOT POLISH
AJS

I hope dem Hutus don't massacre us Lordy Lordy!

now edited for added comprehensibility (not that anyone's going to read it anyway, might as well try and teach a toilet to speak Cantonese or something)

Why the hell not?

Other than the blindingly obvious the paste didn't work

It's not at all xenophobic, any other critique?

It's funny. And actors will like it.

Hey AJGO what did you make of those photos of my bum?

Quote: AJGO @ November 13 2011, 4:32 PM GMT

It's funny. And actors will like it.

Sorry!

I saw Shalom Baby, yet another crass dreary Holocaust exploiting bit of drivel. This is my response to this in Sootyj's opinion turgid genre.

Actually it was written by my extremely close chum Dr Sardonicus.

Who believes satire only works when it's cuts right along the bone.

(Sardo is even more embittered than Sootyj, if such a thing is possible)

Quote: Stylee TingTing @ November 13 2011, 4:34 PM GMT

Which actors would that be? Mel Gibson + friends?

One of my major downfalls with sketches is that I write what I think is funny, but then when I look at it thinking to send it somewhere I realise that in terms of staging I've ignored some characters, or have favoured subtle or dry words or mannerisms over giving the actors something they'll really enjoy performing. So I was appreciating that Sootyj has maintained the tone of the piece combined with imaginable and comedic performances.

Quote: sootyj @ November 13 2011, 4:35 PM GMT

Hey AJGO what did you make of those photos of my bum?

And this is the thanks I get :D

Thanks it's a case for me of satirising what's out there already.

Sometimes the material writes it's self.

In this case watching a play where they have an play with a wedding in Aushwitz just writes it's self.

Quote: AJGO @ November 13 2011, 4:54 PM GMT

And this is the thanks I get :D

Exactly what the Pope said when he saw my photos.

That had a Milliganesque feel in the execution; I laughed.

I fear Stylee Ting Ting is rather missing the point of the satire.

Thanks Timbo you get a photograph of my bum!

I'll add it to the collection.

Hi sootyj,

It's been a long time.

This is unusal but I like it a lot.
Which in itself is unusual.

Mind, I think the character 
 has far too much to say.

Keep up the relatively average work.

Thought you killed yourself?

Averagely pleased you didn't.

I found this difficult to read purely because of the formatting and the abbreviations for the characters, but even so, I did manage a few sniggers. Could you give them stereotypical names (Fritz, Jacob or whatever) with a cast list at the start so they're easy to identify? note you said this is only the first 3 pages - I reckon this has a lot of potential to be a really funny play. Can you please sign the photo of your bum for future sale when the play is a West End hit?

I liked this.
It was a little hard to follow at times, but I think that's one of the things I liked about it.

To save time I have signed my bum

thanks for the feedback, I have a weird aversion to naming characters

I should get over my self

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