Dramatic Flight

RIGBY FOTHERINGTON-SMYTHE and AIRLINE PERSONNEL OFFICER

OFFICER:
Next!

RIGBY:
Am I in the right place? I’m an ac-tor.

OFFICER:
Name?

RIGBY:
Rigby Fotherington-Smythe.

OFFICER:
Oh, the one from Brighton.

RIGBY:
Hove, actually.

OFFICER:
Age?

RIGBY:
(SHORT COUGHING FIT) ... but I can play a lot younger.

OFFICER:
Free Friday?

RIGBY:
Well, I may be available.

OFFICER:
Nine o’clock.

RIGBY:
Just a one night stand?

OFFICER:
There, back, there, back.

RIGBY:
This isn’t a Peter Brook production?

OFFICER:
Hardly. We’re an airline, Mr. Smythe, not a theatre company.

RIGBY:
But you’re flying ac-tors ..?

OFFICER:
To keep up our quotas.

RIGBY:
What an outrageous waste of ...!

OFFICER:
Hundred and fifty.

RIGBY:
A day!?

OFFICER:
Yes.

RIGBY:
For that, I’d give you my Bottom!

I can see what you're trying to do here, John, but it's not quite working for me.

I think the premise is a bit mundane and you need more of a twist. Obviously, that would change the sketch entirely though!

Dan

Thanks for the feedback, Dan.

Funnily enough, somebody else obviously thought of the same idea, as there was a similar upper class actor being auditioned by Flybe on Tilt last night.

Yeah, I heard that and thought it might be your sketch and initially thought: "Well, well. I clearly know *nothing*..."

Dan

Yeah, again I wrote this primarily with Treason in mind, hence the Brighton references and sexual innuendo. I suspect Tilt want stuff that's less smutty.