by Mikho Mosulishvili
Translated from Georgian into
English by Ann Mosulishvili
CHARACTERS:
1.DEVI—
a husband, flicks his
braces
2.BOA --- a
wife, stamps on the tips
of her toes
3.TATTOO--- the other husband, clinks his beads
4.LILY--- the other wife,
her beads resembling
silver coins chink.
5.HOST --- a
general of the
Military Forces Department, walks noiselessly.
FX DURING
THE PLAY THE SOUND
OF HOSTILITIES : BURSTS, ATTACKING PLANE, TOMMY-GUNS AND
MACHINE GUNS , TAKING PLACE NOT
FAR AWAY, ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE
MOUNTAINS IS HEARD,
BUT THE CHARACTERS DO
NOT REACT TO
IT; IT’S THEIR
USUAL STATE.
1.
IN
FRONT OF THE HOTEL,
ON THE ROAD
FX PURLING OF
A SWIFT MOUNTAINOUS
BROOK, THE SOUND OF
A HELICOPTER WHICH
GRADUALLY MOVES AWAY.
STRIKES A MATCH.
HOST
Don’t think this
pipe is Usama
bin Laden’s present. No, it’s an
extra class cigar, sent
from
FX PAUSE.
UNCLEAR FLICKING.
LILY Hi!
FX. HER
SILVER BEADS CLINK AT HER EACH STEP DURING THE WHOLE PLAY.
DEVI What
did you say?
FX.
FLISK HIS BRACES AND DOES SO NOW AND AGAIN DURING THE PLAY.
DEVI (Cont’d) I
have been saying from
the beginning we
shouldn’t have bought
this place!
LILY
Why shouldn’t we? It
has a wonderful view and a
splendid abyss! You
have the harmony
of tints, coloring
and composition—all that
you like. You
only paint and
paint!
DEVI
I agree with
you, how I
can disagree since
there’s a majestic
landscape and a
composition on a
military road, but
nevertheless we shouldn’t
have bought it.
I present my very
cautious apologies, but believe
me, we shouldn’t have
bought it. It was
your and your
husband’s idea!
LILY Are
you speaking about
my Tattoo?
Do you
know that on
the middle finger
of Tattoo’s right
hand a diamond
ace is depicted?
And on
his back there
is a naked
woman wound by a
snake. When Tattoo runs
this woman runs
too, but only faster!
DEVI Of
course, if Tattoo
leaves , the woman won’t stay with
you either and
even if she stays what do you need
such a snake-wound
woman for? But
between us, is she
at least attractive?
LILY Very! Don’t
make me say
that my Tattoo often
lights a cigarette
straight from a muzzle of
a burning hot
tommy-gun and if
necessary he can fire
a pistol without
taking it out
of the pocket!
DEVI No,
of course, not! I’ve been
telling you and
repeat it now it’s
not a bad
place at all.
LILY You
mean we should have
listened to you and
your gangster wife
and built a
sauna with hot
hydrogen sulfide water
in the old district of the capital.
DEVI
By the way,
my wife bumped
off her brother’s
killer in the center
of Vienna, the capital
of waltz. That
poor guy also
used to light
his cigarettes from
a muzzle of
a burning hot
tommy-gun and fired without
a miss from
his pocket. We
did not find
out if he
had any tattoo
as he was
immediately buried into
a wormy soil.
LILY Who
would have allowed
us to build
a sauna in
the old district
of the capital?
Who is
Gvido from Arezo
among us?
DEVI
I know nothing
about Gvido from
Arezo, but I
know I am
an actual member
of the whole
Scottish Golf Federation
and the General
Consultant of the
Local Golf Association, mind this!
LILY I
am a
fool like you
and this talk
is senseless, you cannot
work wonders with words!
DEVI
Let’s put advertisements in
the newspapers and
a running line
on TV! Maybe
somebody will buy
it!
LILY
We did it!
Some fellers with
powdered wives and
fat mothers-in-law arrived ,
drank all our
coffee and disappeared
without a trace!
DEVI What
shall we do
--to claim bankruptcy
and return to
the city? Or
to say we
have made a mistake?
HOST
I am sorry,
but my eavesdropping
apparatus has switched on.
I wonder what
Richard , duke of Gloster,
will say about
it?
FX. GRINS
TO HIMSELF.
HOST (Cont’d) This story happened in one
mountainous country. When
the German condones
“Siko” were imported some
questionable local manufacturers
immediately produced false “ Siko” out
of a questionable material
and offered it for
sale. And as
“Siko” is the
name of a
male in our
country, one of the
characters in this
play, named Siko-Torpedo,
claimed to Strasburg
International High Court for his
infringed copyright, though some
people advised him to
address London Arbitration
Court and as he
himself confirms he
won the case
and thus got rich,
though , frankly speaking,
he did not
steal any money from
me! I’ll take care of
him in a
proper way! Oh, sorry.
My cigar has put out.
FX. MATCH
STRIKING IS HEARD.
HOST (Cont’d)
It’s really an
extra class cigar, but
here, in the mountains
it’s damp and it
seems.... Yes, I
think I hinted
that we are in
the mountains.
FX A
REMOTE BURST AND
THUNDERSTORM ARE FOLLOWED BY
UNCLEAR FLICKING.
TATTOO Boa, don’t you
think our second halves
laugh at us
and make love together
after getting rid of us?
FX. DURING
THE PLAY TATTOO’S CUES ARE BY BEADS’ CLINKING.
BOA (laughs) With “Sikos”
bought by us?
Do you
think Devi is
capable of dealing
with two women?
FX. DURING
THE PLAY BOA MOVES STAMPING ON THE TIPS OF HER TOES.
TATTOO Shall
I make a
shot straight out
of my pocket, Man?
BOA Wait, wait. Don’t put it on! It’s my bikini!
HOST Oh, I
apologize to you
again. I’ll switch it off
straightaway.
FX PAUSE. UNCLEAR FLICKING.
HOST (Cont’d)
Here, near the skiing spa there’s
a hotel “Dream-land of
Mountains” which we are
going to.
FX THE
DOOR SQUEAKS, STEPS ARE HEARD.
HOST (Cont’d)
Here we are in the
original bar of
the hotel. Over this black-mouthed
fireplace on the wall there
are golf
clubs of different
sizes with the
inscriptions: “driver”, ” brassie”, “cleek”, “midiron”, “mashie”,
“niblick” and “putter”.
FX. GRINS.
HOST (Cont’d)
And do you
know why it is
the original bar? Because
here, all the counters, shelves, rolling chairs ,
white piano, black-mouthed fireplace,
staircase leading to the second
floor , all these attributes
representing a peculiar
complexity, formed a mini golf
course with its
holes for balls.
What else? Yes, the
shelves of the bar
are empty, but the pictures
on the walls are not bad.
Anything else?
Yes, there’s an easel covered
with a white
cloth near the fireplace.
FX SOMEBODY’S STEPS ARE HEARD.
HOST (Cont’d)
Excuse me, but in order not
to distort the
genre of the play I must dash
now. But don’t
worry, we’ll meet again.
FX THE SOUND
OF QUICK STEPS
2.
TEA WITH
CARROTS
FX HURRYING
STEPS. A CHAIR
SQUEAKS, SOMEBODY SITS ON IT AND
STIRS TEA IN
THE CUP, THEN
BITES OFF A CARROT AND
EATS NOISILY.
LILY (Signs) Oh.
DEVI What
did you say?
FX. STOPS
CRUNCHING A CARROT, GETS UP, WALKS. THEN HE SITS DOWN AHAIN, SIPS TEA FROM THE
CUP NOISILY AND CONTINUES CRUCHING CARROT.
DEVI (Cont’d) Oh, oh, how my
back is itching!
FX. HE
STANDS UP AGAIN, SOUNDS OF STEPS.
DEVI (Cont’d)
Which club is better?
I’ll take a
“putter”, it’s short and good
for scratching my
back.
LILY What
are you doing?
DEVI I ? Nothing! To
be more exact, I am drinking
tea with carrots!
FX.
SIPS TEA AND CRUCHES CARROTS.
LILY Shame
upon you!
DEVI Because
I am eating carrots?
There’s a whole
warehouse of vitamins
in one carrot!
LILY
I, a weak
and fragile creature,
am lying on
the floor and
instead of raising
me you are
sitting and eating
the whole warehouse! What a
gentleman you are!
DEVI ( jumps
to his feet, runs
up and helps
her to get
up) I thought you
lay down to
have a rest!
Here is your
brush!
LILY Seat
me at the
table.
DEVI
Shall I raise
you?
LILY A
real gentleman would
never ask such
a question!
DEVI Yes! (he puffs while
raising her and
seats her at
the table).
Yes, that’s
it! (the sound of
steps). Here is your
beret!
LILY
thanks! Was your back
itching?
DEVI no!
LILY what
did you do
with this poker
then?
DEVI (is
heart) This is a
golf club! Don’t
you see it
is written “putter”
over the mantelpiece?
LILY
looking at you I
think this “putter” is
for scratching backs!
DEVI
it’s one of
the exercises in golf.
LILY
Then give it
to me and
I’ll train too.
DEVI Take
it! Do you like golf?
LILY (scratches
her back with
the club) Uh, very
much! Very much!
DEVI I
gave you a
whole set of
clubs with its
foulard, where is it?
LILY
As far as
I know Tattoo
catches mice with
these sticks!
DEVI
These are not sticks, these
are clubs! C-l-u-b-s!
LILY yes, with
golf clubs and
also “putters”! There
are a lot of
mice here!
DEVI
I don’t know.
I haven’t seen
any!
LILY
I haven’t either, but
over there, near the piano, they
dug up pits!
DEVI What
are you speaking
about? These
are not pits, these
are holes!
LILY What?
DEVI
Holes! To cast golf
balls!
LILY I pour
out boiling water from the kettle into
them!
DEVI
What for?
LILY To
kill mice!
DEVI ( more excitedly) And I
was wondering!
LILY Why?
DEVI You
know every morning
I took pains
to extract this
water with enema!
LILY
I wish I
had watched you
with these enemas!
DEVI
do mice feed
on tea or
carrots here?
LILY
on sugar, that’s it!
DEVI
The remains of
sugar are in
a glass tin
and if possible
don’t spoil my
wonderful golf course!
There are no mice
here, don’t invent them!
LILY
A golf course, but
not…
DEVI
But what? Do
you know I am
going to have
a golf club
here?
LILY I
don’t know if
you open it
or not, but
these tables are
still stubbornly waiting
for clients! Stubbornly!
DEVI
It’s a splendid
place! Three rooms
number 1,5,7 overlook the
river gorge, and five
rooms -- the charming
peaks of the
Caucasian mountain range!
The only disadvantage
is that I
cannot arrange a natural golf
course outside because
the abyss treacherously betrayed
me! Couldn’t it
appear in some
other place?
LILY
I apologize to
you on behalf
of the abyss
, but it
cannot go to
any other place.
That’s why you’ll
have to go.
DEVI
Give me the
“putter”, I want to
scratch my back.
( scratches). Why are you
staring at me?
I’ve got allergy
to a bumble-bee’s
sting. It can
sting in one
place, but afterwards
you’ve got a
rash all over
your body.
LILY Give
me back the
“putter”.
( Now
she scratches) Why
are you looking
at me? I’ve
got a rash too.
I am allergic
too.
DEVI
Allergic to bumble-bees
or bees?
LILY To
both.
3.THE LESSON
OF GOLF
DEVI ( finishes
eating the carrot noisily) Do
you know whom
I spoke to? To
my granny Pasha, I
call her Pasha.
LILY (She
also eats carrots.) Don’t remind
me of Pasha!
I am not well even without
mentioning her name. I
am as anxious
as an ocean.
FX PAUSE.
DEVI If
it were
not for this
abyss I’d arrange
such a golf
course that William
Shakespeare would come
to play here!
LILY But
he already plays
in heaven.
DEVI
Only one small
step separates these
mountains from heaven.
LILY Eh!
DEVI
Has it calmed
down or do
you still feel
like an ocean?
LILY
Not like an
ocean but very
much like our
brook.
DEVI
I’ll teach you
pitches in golf
and you’ll feel
like a transparent
mountainous lake. ( runs away
and in some time
appears). Look here, it’s a
ball! Let’s put
it here. Do
you see?
LILY Yes.
DEVI
this one somehow reminds that
one... And when
you swing your
arm you must
say: Wow!
LILY Why?
DEVI
it’s necessary! After
a pitch you
should say “Hi”. Do
you know why
you must pronounce
these exclamations? To
correct a pitch!
I’ll lend you
three volumes of my research
later but don’t
lose them!
LILY
Maybe you’ll tell me
in brief?
DEVI
Why not?
Now imagine that
in front of
you there is
a green field
with a rough surface, bushes, perhaps
trees somewhere and
bunkers and a
clear lake with
swans. Have you
imagined?
LILY
How nice!
DEVI
On the other
side of the
lake special flagsticks
are driven into
the ground. They
mark the holes for
balls. These holes
are not for
boiling water but
for balls cast
into with as
few pitches
as possible. In golf
as in life
every pitch has
a decisive meaning!
LILY
How very easy!
Give me the
“putter”!
FX WHISTLE OF
CLUBS IS HEARD.
LILY (Cont’d)
Ah.
DEVI You
see, you have
missed.
LILY
I should have
said “Hi”, shouldn’t
I ?
DEVI
First “Wow”, then “Hi”.
LILY
“Wow” and “Hi”! “Wow”
and “Hi”! Nothing comes
of it. I am
hot.
DEVI
Well, I’ll open the window
and then we’ll
try together.
FX GOES TO OPEN THE WINDOW. THE SOUND
OF A BROOK.
LILY
“Wow” and “Hi”! “Wow”
and “Hi”!
DEVI No, no, not
that way! Wait! Let’s
take aim this
way , let’s take aim!
Let me take
hold of the
“putter” with the
other hand.
LILY Take
it , but don’t hinder
me. Oh.
DEVI This way
the whole ocean
will go to
hell. Look , we
are taking aim
like this again
and again!
LILY How
long are you
going to take
aim?
DEVI
Relax, don’t strain, otherwise
nothing will come
of it. Yes!
FX THE
SOUND OF A
BROOK IS MIXED
WITH HUMMING OF BUMBLE-BEES.
LILY (screeches)
Bumble-bees! I am afraid!
Bumble-bees!
DEVI
They have flown to
the tea.
FX AGGRESSIVE
HUMMING OF BUMBLE-BEES .
WHISTLE OF CLUBS.
DEVI (Cont’d) “Wow”
and “Hi”! “Wow” and
“Hi”! Lily, what are you
doing? Lily,
where are you
crawling?
LILY
Under your coat.
DEVI Then....
Well, get out!
Oh .
FX
TWO PEOPLE ENTER THE
BAR
DEVI (Cont’d)
Don’t hinder me!
I am faithful
to my Boa! And
will always be!
4.
A SUITCASE WITHOUT
ANGELS IN THE GOLF-BAR
DEVI
And me too.
TATOO
do I have
to kill anybody
here or is
there anything else
going on, Man?
BOA Now
I’ll pour this
tea out of
the window!
FX SOUND
OF POURING WATER. HUMMING OF
BUMBLE-BEE CEASES. BOA (Cont’d)
Now the bumble-bees
have flown away!
FX CLOSES
THE WINDOW. THE SOUND
OF A BROOK
CEASES.
LILY What
are you doing, Boa? That’s
a bit too
thick to pour
out the tea
when we are
hard up!
BOA Yes,
that’s a bit
too thick to
stick to the
other husbands! These
cups must be
washed!
LILY First ... First take
these cups, Devi!
DEVI Give
me!
LILY And
second, who is sticking?
I ask
you, strangling snake!
BOA
I am sticking! The
six husbands were
not enough for
me, that’s why I
want to lure the seventh!
LILY what
? You’ve
had six husbands
and kept silent
about it?
DEVI
I’ll go and
wash these cups
till they sparkle.
BOA
wait, where are
you slipping away?
DEVI That’s
enough, Boa! I simply
taught her to
play golf. Then
those bumble-bees flew. And I
am allergic to
both bumble-bees and
bees .
TATTOO
I’d like not
to see such
golf lessons anymore, Man, otherwise...
LILY
My tramping Boa! So, are
your six husbands an
irony? Have
you made fun
of me? Have
you laughed at me? Now
I’ll laugh at you!
BOA Go
ahead!
LILY I...
. you
see I am
allergic too and he
taught me to play
golf! And what
Gvido from Arezo is
your husband for me
after all!
BOA
Nobody has ever
laughed at me
so treacherously! Especially
those who are
allergic to latex, this
very latex from
which the condones
are made!
LILY
What has latex
to do with
it? What?
BOA Would
you like it if I said
a mouse frightened
me and I
jumped at your husband?
LILY
No! But I didn’t didn’t
... at your
husband! I cannot
pronounce this word!
BOA
Do you know
what I’ll tell you?
LILY What?
BOA
Do you know
Cola?
LILY
What Cola?
BOA so,
jump at
Cola then!
TATTOO
I’m through! Let bygone
be bygone! That’s all, Man!
LILY If
your last statement
is an example
of your black
humour, then know, my dear,
I don’t need any
spirit-soaked Cola! Even in
a hundred years!
Degenerate! Tattoo! Tattoo, I say!
TATTOO
What’s up, Man?
LILY Why
do you put
me in such
an awkward situation? Do
you know I
am tired of
waiting for you.
Do you know
that except for
carrots and tea I
haven’t eaten anything? What
shall we eat, what
have you brought? Besides,
some awful person
with mahogany spots appeared before
me and I
got frightened!
TATTOO
Wasn’t Devi here, Man?
LILY He
was speaking with
his granny Pasha.
And that frightful
person looked like
a huge toad!
He made humming
sounds like a
mixer!
DEVI
I’ll go and
wash these cups
properly!
BOA
Hold on! Do you
fancy even deceased
Pasha?
DEVI
No, I saw
her in a
dream. I put
frogs into her
galoshes because she won
three golf sets
over me.
TATTOO What
mixer, what galoshes of Pasha? I
have understood nothing, Man!
LILY
Don’t you understand
he is Gvido
from Arezo too? Do-re- mi-fa-sol-la-si?
I told
you officially to
invite a person
who looked like
a huge toad
with mahogany spots.
How can I
explain it the
other way? Do you
remember our Rockefeller “ Devi”, eaten by
a Chinese worker. The
feller was black
with mahogany spots
like our dog and as awkward
as a toad. Have
you understood?
TATTOO
In short, if
we cut off our
Rockefeller’s head and a put
a big frog on him, we’d
have such a
feller, Man?
BOA
What did he say
he was?
DEVI
I don’t know. At
that time Pasha
was winning the third set over me
in my dream as
I had drunk
tazipam and then
suprastin.
BOA
he must have
been a rogue!
TATTOO
Call me driven
out by a
whore if it hadn’t been
Siko-Torpedo! He looks
like a toad, Man! Go
on, Lily! What did he want?
LILY
I heard nothing.
I was working
at my painting.
A horrible vision
appeared before me. It was
so frightening that
even now I
am as anxious
as an ocean
a-a-a-a! ( screeches).
BOA
Soprano spoilt by
cigarette smoking!
TATTOO
Who is this
soprano, Man?
BOA
Nobody. I simply
recalled my old
profession. I used
to be a
ballet-dancer.
LILY
Of course, soprano! My
mother is to
blame for everything
otherwise I’d sing in
La Scala now! My mother
did not even
want to hear
about the conservatory. She
used to say there
was no music
at all, only much or
little noise. No,
I am not a
bad artist at
all, but I’d be
a much better
dramatic soprano! A big deal to dance
Carmen in prehistoric times!
You are a nice
Nino Ananiashvili!
FX. PAUSE.
LILY (Cont’d)
So, I screeched
and fainted.
TATTOO At
last, what did
Siko-Torpedo say, Man?
LILY Who?
TATTOO
That lizard or
alligator, Man!
LILY What!
Are there even
alligators here? Didn’t
you say they
are only in Mexico
and Brazil?
TATTOO
I am asking
you about the
one who was here, Man!
LILY
He looked like
a toad, not
an alligator!
TATTOO
What did he say, Man?
LILY I
couldn’t understand, he was humming
like a mixer.
TATTOO you
are a good
soprano, aren’t you?
Couldn’t you understand words through
humming?
LILY of
course I am!
Let the malicious
and jealous neighbors
burst with envy.
TATTOO
So, what did he say, Man?
LILY
He said : Will you
buy me big
macs and Coca-Colas!
BOA Yes!
LILY
He said : s
there a special
ketchup for the macs?
BOA
He cheated all
of us very
well!
LILY
do you know
this spirit-soaked Cola
who works at
our parking lot?
BOA O.K.
, O.K., I’ll give myself up
to your Cola and
five other males! Only say!
LILY Have
you heard?
To Cola and five
other males! All in
all -- six.
TATTOO ( shouts
at her) listen to
me, what did Siko-Torpedo say?
LILY
he said “ Here. I
brought two lemons”.
DEVI
What do we
need lemons for? He ‘d better
have brought oranges, they are
sweet at least!
BOA
And where are
these lemons?
LILY
In Siko’s reddish
suitcase.
TATTOO
And where is
this reddish suitcase, kitten?
LILY
I am not
a kitten!
DEVI
He could do
with a plastic
bag. What did
he need the
suitcase for?
BOA
Where is the
suitcase?
LILY I
threw it away
on the road!
BOA
which means we
have recently found
Siko-Torpedo’s suitcase!
FX STEPS--
BOTH LEAVE.
LILY
Where have they
run?
Are they going
to bring Coca-colas, ketchups and big
macs to us?
DEVI
you are such
a wonderful artist
that I’ll bring
them to you!
LILY
Will you, really?
DEVI Yes, of
course, but a
little bit later.
LILY If
you saw this new
painting you’d go
crazy and rash
for big macs and
coca-cola straightaway!
DEVI Eh,
if it
were not for
this abyss I’d
arrange the first
mountainous golf course in the world here!
FX TATTOO
AND BOA ENTER.
TATTOO
Is it that
suitcase, kitten, Man?
LILY
I am not
a kitten, but it
is! Devi , will you
prefer those lemons
to my new painting?
DEVI
This one reminds
me to some
extent of that
one.
5.
AT LILY’S
NEW PAINTING
LILY
you call this
place an “enemy”,
but you don’t
know how wonderful it
is! When the
sun sets, the
beams decorate these,
how to say,
projected things of the
abyss with extraordinary
colors! What tonality! It’s
a dream of
every artist!
DEVI If
a golf-ball strikes these
projected things will it
stay there or
fall down?
LILY
I don’t know
about the ball, but
somewhere inside there
are caves.
DEVI
Will the golf-ball
get into them?
LILY
I don’t know,
but around these caves
mountainous grass grows
and inside them
predatory birds nest.
It’s these sharp-clawed
birds with hooked
beaks which stole the
puppies of our
Rockefeller.
DEVI
So, it’s eagles
and it’s not worth speaking about a
golf-ball.
LILY
I know nothing
about the ball,
but do you
like music?
DEVI
Yes! Your mother
was mistaken only
in this question!
LILY
the sound of
the brook over
there reminds me of
some Mozart’s sonata! Do
you hear?
No, not sonata, but fugue.
Some Bach’s fugue. Organs.
DEVI If I
had listened to
organs my granny
Pasha would never have won three
sets over me.
LILY Do you know
what kind of
sensation it is?
Unexplainable ! As fantastic as
a honeymoon!
DEVI As
your six
honeymoons?
LILY Yes! yes! yes! The abyss
is in front
of you, the sound
of the brook
is heard from
behind and these sharp-clawed
predators are flying above to hunt
somebody! What colors! Six
honeymoons taken together
or even more!
FX MUSIC
IS HEARD.
LILY (Cont’d)
Yes, it is like
a prelude to
love when you
caress your dearest
one.
DEVI How
nice!
LILY
You are excited. You
are whimpering like
a child! Oh! oh! Oh! You are trembling and quivering
like a leaf.
DEVI My
whole body is vibrating and I have
a feeling as if
desired spasms beginn
in muscles!
LILY Not
spasms , but a pleasant
itching. As pleasant as honey! Very intense.
DEVI I’d say
the most intense.
LILY Yes,
it’s the most intense
feeling. Don’t interrupt
me ! It’s Gvido
from Arezo! (sings) Do-re-mi-fa
-sol-la-si! Desired
sweetness is moving to the
zenith! It’s moving and moving, without
stopping! It’s
crescendo! (sings again) ) Do-re-mi-fa -sol-la-si! It
is moving , moving
and ...
DEVI And what?
LILY
It rises to
the top of love, reaches
its peak. It’s
sforzando-- an emphasis
on a definite
sound. Oh, sforzando!
DEVI Yes!
yes ! yes!
LILY And
then it’s very easy, very easy!
You ascend and descend! Ascend and descend! Again and
again!
DEVI Where do
you ascend?
LILY to
that peak
DEVI Sforzando!
LILY It’s such
a sensation that
neither alcohol nor
narcotic euphoria could
be compared with it!
DEVI Yes!
LILY It’s
a fantastic bouquet of all major
and minor keys
with their sharps and
flats! The whole
quartet- quintet circle!
DEVI Well, I
know nothing about
this circle, but how
wonderful Bob Marley is when he
sings about a
buffalo soldier and
so is Puff Daddy. Would
you like me to
switch on our tape-recorder?
LILY In
short I
finished this way.
DEVI really?
LILY
Yes, I finished
and painted the abyss, then brought
it home. And
did you think
I would never finish?
DEVI
this one reminds
me in some
degree of that
one, but experience
tells.
In a low
voice. Is it little— the
six husbands, including Tattoo?
LILY
Well, today I
took off the canvas
as I needed
to correct something in it.
Suddenly this toad
with mahogany spots appeared.
He hummed something
about two lemons
and didn’t look like Gvido
from Arezo at
all. And all
of a sudden
I saw a
white car, our white
car flying into this
magnificent abyss.
DEVI
And did it
crush severely?
LILY No,
our white car
fell into the
abyss not in
reality, but in
my painting! But I didn’t
paint it.
DEVI
Yes, but what
about that bouquet
of a quartet-quintet circle and
spasms? You painted
that abyss, didn’t you?
LILY
Yes, I painted
the abyss, but not
our white car! And
I see it
flying into the abyss in my painting!
DEVI
if it’s only
in the painting,
there is nothing
to worry about, isn’t
there?
LILY I didn’t
paint it, but
nevertheless it is
painted!
DEVI
You fainted, didn’t you? That
one with lemons
might have painted
it!
LILY
with mahogany spots?
DEVI Yes.
LILY No,
what has he
to do with it? When
he came it
had already been painted.
Your granny Pasha
couldn’t have risen
from the grave, could
she?
DEVI
Even if she
had risen she
couldn’t have painted
it!
LILY
And suddenly it
occurred to me
there was nobody
here who could
paint except me.
I got frightened
so much that
I screeched at
the top of
my voice and
do you know
why?
DEVI No.
LILY
Because it was
necessary to put
a stress on
this inexplicable phenomenon.
Then there should
have been a
sforzando piano , a low
sound that unexpectedly
follows a sudden
stress, and that’s why I
fainted.
DEVI Now,
it’s all
very well --
sforzandos, pianos and
stresses. But didn’t
any car fall
into the abyss?
LILY So, that’s
why I was
as anxious as an
ocean.
DEVI
You might have
fancied it. Show
it!
FX. PAUSE.
BOA
This is not
enough.
TATTOO
How much is
lacking, Man?
BOA five
hundred thousand
DEVI this
picture costs more than
five hundred thousand!
LILY
Do you think
so?
BOA
do you doubt
it? I tell
you , half a million!
TATTOO There
must be two
million, Man!
DEVI
well, two million
is a good price.
I’d buy it
if I had
the money.
LILY
so it means
that it’s Picasso’s
level.
BOA
DEVI, what are
you mumbling?
TATTOO
Kitten, there are two
lemons in the
suitcase. Is it
true, Man?
LILY Yes,
it is. Give it
to Tattoo and
Boa, they know whom
to bring it.
BOA
what a fucking
swindler this Siko-Torpedo
is, Man!
TATTOO There
are two variants:
either they or
Siko -Torpedo stole it, Man!
BOA
Terse non datum-- if
somebody had found
the suitcase on
the road, he
wouldn’t have taken
only half a
lemon, would he?
TATTOO
Lily, come here, Man!
LILY (
steps accompanied by
chink of silver
beads) My God!
My God! How many dollars!
They brought this
money to buy
my picture! Is
it possible? How
many big macs
can be bought with this money, Tattoo?
LILY
My lord! My lord! How
nice it hasn’t been
lost.
DEVI It’s
not your fault.
You really thought
there were lemons. Couldn’t he
explain it clearly
to you that
there were two million? What’s
the connection between a
lemon and a
million?
BOA
A lemon in
thieves’ cant means
a million. Have
you learnt it
just now?
LILY
How many is it
all together, Tattoo?
TATTOO
half a million
is lacking to
make two, Man.
LILY
I know nothing
about your lemons, but
one million and
some more is
quite a sum, isn’t
it?
TATTOO
Didn’t you take
half a million
to buy big
macs, Man?
LILY I ? I
thought there were
lemons and threw
them away on the road!
A million and
some more! My
Lord! My Lord! The angel
granted it to
us! Or maybe
Gvido from Arezo
sent it?
TPATTOO I
warn you : don’t mention
this frog-eater Gvido or
how you call
him anymore, otherwise
I’ll kill him
like a fucking carrot-eater, a
rabbit, Man!
LILY Yes,
but don’t Frenchmen
eat frogs?
TATTOO
And what do
Italians eat, Man?
LILY Spaghetti.
TATTOO
Stop talking about
that spaghetti eater!
DEVI
I’ll go and
wash the dishes
till they glitter.
BOA
wait! Didn’t you
open the suitcase?
DEVI No,
I was
putting frogs into
my granny Pasha’s
galoshes because she
had won three
sets over me.
TATTOO ( speaks
in basso) You
are as mad
as your granny
Pasha, Man!
BOA Tattoo, my
brother, don’t speak in basso. Do you know what I am
going to
tell you?
TATTOO What
is it, Man?
BOA
You don’t know
Cola, do you?
TATTOO
I don’t understand, Man!.
BOA
he took a
medicine and slept! Do
you understand it now?
TATTOO O.K. let’s go and
see Lily’s new
painting, Man!
6.
NEAR THE SUITCASE
LILY
So, how much
is it here?
a million and a half?
DEVI Yes.
LILY Is
it much or
very much?
DEVI Very much!
LILY
We are lucky, nobody stole the
money on the
road!
DEVI Really.
LILY Very
lucky.
DEVI With
this money I’ll
fill the abyss to
the top and
arrange a mountainous golf course, won’t
I, Boa?
BOA It’s
really a nice
painting!
LILY Tattoo and
I are not
interested in what
you are going
to do, are we, Tattoo?
TATTOO I
like this white
car in a
loop, Man.
DEVI What
shall we do?
LILY Divide
it into halves.
DEVI Seven
hundred thousand to
you, eight hundred
thousand to us!
LILY
Why do eight
hundred thousand go
to you?
DEVI This
golf club was
built totally on
my account, that’s why!
LILY
But these paintings
were made at
my expense! And Tattoo
filled this tank
with one ton
of diesel fuel
for you to
switch on the
heater and bathe
with your mistress!
DEVI
Take it back, mister!
LILY You
take it yourself if
you want to.
DEVI
How can I
take this mini
golf course?
LILY
Then we’ll take 750
thousand, and you - 750
thousand.
DEVI Yes,
but our
expenses are much
higher than yours.
LILY
Why higher, I wonder?
Paints, easel, frames, priming of
canvas. And art! A
part is mine, a part
is Tattoo’s. You
go and try
to take one
ton of diesel
from somebody!
DEVI A
big deal-- diesel, dissolved in water!
Is my art
worse?
Only the lumber
cost half a
million!
LILY
Don’t forget that
my Tattoo lights
a cigarette from
a burning hot
tommy-gun!
DEVI
O.K., let’s divide the
money into halves,
but don’t forget
that my Boa
strangled the fucking
rabbit like your Tattoo
in the center of Vienna!
LILY Then
I’ll divide! How
many dollars are
there in one
bundle?
DEVI How
do I know!
There are only
hundreds!
LILY ( Strikes
his hand with
hers) Leave it!
DEVI
If there are
one hundred banknotes
in every bundle
then how much
does it make?
LILY How do
I know?
DEVI
So, we ought
to add two
or three nulls
to a hundred!
LILY
Yes, and a
little more!
DEVI Then
I’ll open it
and count.
LILY
(slaps him in
the face) Don’t
touch it!
DEVI Why?
LILY
I don’t trust
you!
DEVI
Neither do I .
LILY I
am an artist
and might have
been a soprano
in La Scala!
DEVI And
I am an
actual member of
the whole Scottish
Golf Federation and
the General Consultant of the
Local Golf Association!
LILY That
doesn’t interest me!
DEVI
And me neither!
LILY
I’ll count it
myself.
DEVI
Put back the
bundle, I don’t
trust you either!
LILY
I won’t.
DEVI Boa, let
her put the
bundle, I will count!
BOA
Do you know
what I’ll tell
you?
LILY
I don’t know
that spirit-soaked Cola
at all!
TATTOO
Let’s not fertilize
sterile women!
BOA
the money is
not ours, do
you understand?
FX. CLOSES
THE SUITCASE.
TATTOO
I’ll put this
suitcase on the
fireplace and tomorrow
Boa and I
will give it
to the host, Man.
BOA Yes,
we’ll take it
and tell him
that it lacks
half a lemon!
I don’t care a fig!
TATTOO
Let Siko-Torpedo, driven out
by a whore, worry
about it, Man!
LILY
The one who looks like
a toad?
TATTOO Yes, Man.
LILY He
cannot worry anymore.
For six months
he won’t be
able to worry.
TATTOO
Why, kitten, Man?
LILY
because... Where are the Bahamas?
TATTOO Bahamas
Bahamas No, there was no
one with such
a nickname in Jamaica
prison, neither in my district!
Nor in the
Abkhasian war, Man!
LILY It’s
not a nickname, it’s an
island! Yes, he said he
was going to
the Bahamas!
TATTOO doesn’t
he know that
from a burning hot
tommy-gun I ...
BOA Light
your stinking cigars and
wait, while Siko-Torpedo has
escaped!
LILY No,
he hasn’t escaped.
He said he
won a case
in Strasburg Court.
TATTOO
What case, Man?
LILY The
German condones are
called “Siko” and in his passport
he is written
under the same
name. The copyright to
this name belongs to
him. He said
he had won
a lot of
money in Strasburg, and
was going to
the Bahamas to
have a rest
and then to
lay a claim
to London Arbitration
and to get
big bucks from
the Germans again.
DEVI I
wish I were
called Siko too.
TATTOO
Where is this
island, Man?
DEVI
I have no
idea, but they have
the best courses!
For golf!
BOA
Everything will be
clear! But all that’s
left from the
money must be
given to the
host.
TATTOO
Yes, Man.
LILY
Don’t say this
“Man” anymore, if you
love me!
BOA Devi,
have you
fried potatoes?
DEVI
The last portion’s
got burnt!
TATTOO Then
what shall we
eat, Lily?
LILY We
had supper with
carrots and tea.
TATTOO ( goes
upstairs) take it
to our room. Only
without the fucking
rabbit, Man. Sorry, I
shouldn’t have said
“Man”!
LILY So
what?
BOA
Only tea! And you too, Devi, take it
to our room
with its fucking
rabbit!
(leaves).
DEVI
this means with
a carrot.
LILY You’ll
switch on the
heater and I’ll
boil tea.
DEVI
Only ten litres
are left.
LILY Of
diesel fuel?
DEVI
Yes, maybe you
can do without
it?
LILY no,
it won’t do. You must
switch it on.
DEVI That
means pleasant spasms
in muscles reaching
the peak , doesn’t it?
LILY You , scamper off!
DEVI How?
LILY
like spilt rice.
7.
PARALLEL DIALOGUES
FX BOA
AND DEVI ARE
IN THE ROOM
DOWNSTAIRS. IN THE ROOM
UPSTAIRS—TATTOO AND LILY.
THE ROOM
DOWNSTAIRS.
FX. BOA WALKS TO AND FRO.
BOA How did
you faint, idiot?
DEVI
How should I know?
BOA
Did it have
to happen at the moment
when this Siko-Torpedo, driven out
by a whore, came?
DEVI
How could I
know he would
come?
BOA
Didn’t you hear?
DEVI No,
I didn’t. What shall I
do then? Let’s
drop it!
BOA
If somebody fucks you
at such a
moment you won’t feel
it.
DEVI
I am not
such kind of
a man and,
if possible, speak
to me in
a more cultural
way.
BOA
Do you dare to
speak about culture? Didn’t
you appear with
rods and rain
warms and in
rubber boots in the
evening when I
said to you
“let’s go and see “Swan’s
lake”?
DEVI
in your opinion
I should have
come with a
gun to shoot the wonderful
white swans. That’s why I preferred
fishing and it
turned out that
I was guilty.
BOA Give
yourself up to
Cola!
DEVI
Hold on! Do
you really think
I am such
a man?
BOA
I don’t think so, but
it appears to be
true.
DEVI What
appears to be
true? Have you
gone mad?
BOA
Have you any
idea what kind
of matter you
have spoilt? Do
you know that?
DEVI No,
but.
BOA
How could you
know?
It’s me who has
to think about everything.
You only look
after your own
damned interests.
DEVI let’s
drop it! Are
you scolding me
because I fainted once?
BOA Not
because of this,
but because of
the spoilt matter.
DEVI
Well, dear. You exaggerate now as you did
with your swan’s
lake.
BOA
I don’t! Do
you know what’s
going to happen?
DEVI
Nothing.
BOA
Do you remember
the husband and
wife who were
shot from a Kalashnikov
gun in a car
with their two
children? They
owned a hotel
like ours. Don’t
you remember?
DEVI Why
must they shoot
us?
BOA
There is no
use talking to you
if you don’t
understand even this!
My lord! Cursed
be the day
when we went shares
with these rotten
husband and wife
and bought this
out-of-the-way hotel! Yes!
yes! Why
are you looking
at me?
DEVI
So these husband
and wife are...
rather than our
partners .
LILY They
are informers and the
host took them
into share so that
they could control us!
Clear?
DEVI
One of them
seems to be
a harmless person
and the other--
a harmless recidivist!
LILY But
only at first
sight!
DEVI
But if they
control us cannot
we control them?
LILY
We cannot, we’ve fainted.
DEVI
Don’t start that again!
BOA
Then let’s not
fertilize sterile women!
DEVI
And this one
somehow reminds me
of that one...
BOA ( strikes
him on the
hand) Shut up !
The son of
this host was
violently killed with a
knife and a
fork! How else
can the lord
make you understand that
you are sinful ? And
if again you
fail to understand
and arrange all
these rotten hotels
along the whole border,
engage in the
heroin traffic and
organize it all
in such a way
that your partners
inform you against
each other then
you are miserable, really miserable
even if you
are a general of
the State Security
Committee or a marshal.
DEVI
but where has
the State Security
Committee gone?
BOA
these are the
methods of the
State Security Committee!
DEVI
then I’d say
he is very
fond of organizational work.
BOA I’ll
tell you what’s going
on!
DEVI what?
BOA
half a million
dollars varnished in
that organized system! All the five hundred
thousand dollars! The cost
of one thousand
grams of heroin. What
would you do
if you were
the host?
DEVI
what should I do?
BOA
listen to me!
Siko-Torpedo had to bring two lemons
to us. We had been
waiting for him
in Gudauta the
whole day. He wasn’t
able come there. He brought the
money here. Then something happened, didn’t it?
DEVI
probably.
BOA
but we don’t
know what happened. We
must have slept
or had visions!
DEVI I
wish we hadn’t done it!
BOA
and half a
million dollars disappeared!
DEVI yes.
BOA
but how, how did
the money disappear? Was
it a trance? Or is
it the
credit of the
World Bank or
humanitarian aid, that nobody
is responsible for it?
So, what would you
do, if you
were the host?
DEVI I say,
Siko-Torpedo stole the
money and made
off to the Bahamas’
offshore zone! What else
should I think?
BOA
it’s out of
the question! What’s
the reason of
taking only half
a lemon?
He could
have taken two lemons!
DEVI I
haven’t thought of
that!
BOA
This Siko-Torpedo invested
four millions in
these hotels. Do
you think he is
mad to have stolen
half a lemon?
DEVI
Right you are.
He isn’t mad!
BOA In
short. Either we, you and
me, or they
took it!
DEVI
I swear by
you I didn’t.
BOA
So, they have
a nest!
DEVI Whose
nest? Swallow’s?
BOA
venomous snakes’!
DEVI
There are no
snakes here.
BOA
Cannot you guess
that snake took
it?
DEVI
I don’t know,
she had itching
all over her
body and ...
BOA
They probably fucked
using the false
“Siko” and this
caused allergy. A
big deal!
DEVI What
happened then?
BOA
I’ll tell you!
After Siko-Torpedo had
left, he quietly slipped
to you, looked
if you really
fainted or not, and
then took half
a million out
of this suitcase without angels, thought —“Why do
I need that
much? And the
rest will come
into my hands “ and
hid it.
BOA you ,
whores! I shall
not be a woman
if I don’t
bake a pasty
from your blood
and feed this
simulator Siko-Torpedo with
it.
DEVI
it’d be a
pleasure to eat
a smoked pasty
now. What if he didn’t
take it?
BOA then,
you took
it.
DEVI
I swear I
didn’t.
BOA so,
it’s a
deal planned beforehand!
Do you know
what they are
doing now?
DEVI
how could I know?
BOA
they are urgently
phoning the host
to say we
stole these five
hundred thousand.
DEVI
shall I believe
they are capable of
such meanness?
BOA
give me my
mobile phone, I’ll prove
it to you at once!
FX.
DIALS THE NUMBER. PAUSE.
BOA (Cont’d) you
see, it’s engaged!
DEVI
try again!
FX. TREIS
TO PHONE AGAIN.
BOA
Engaged! A stab in
the back!
DEVI
try again, call and say
that not we,
but they stole it! Come on, come on! The rotten
should get their
deserts!
THE ROOM
UPSTAIRS.
FX. LILY WALKS TO AND FRO.
TATOO How
did you
faint, idiot?
LILY
How should I know?
TATOO
Did it have
to happen at the moment
when this Siko-Torpedo, driven out
by a whore, came?
LILY
How could I
know he would
come?
TATOO
Didn’t you hear?
LILY No,
I didn’t. What shall I
do then? Let’s
drop it!
TATOO
If somebody fucks you
at such a
moment you won’t
feel it.
LILY
I am not
such kind of
a man and,
if possible, speak
to me in
a more cultural
way.
TATOO
Do you dare to
speak about culture? Didn’t
you appear with
rods and rain
warms and in
rubber boots in the
evening when I
said to you
“let’s go and see “Swan’s
lake”?
LILY
in your opinion
I should have
come with a
gun to shoot the wonderful
white swans. That’s why I preferred
fishing and it
turned out that
I was guilty.
TATOO
Give yourself up
to Cola!
LILY
Hold on! Do
you really think
I am such
a man?
TATOO
I don’t think so, but
it appears to be
true.
LILY
What appears to
be true?
Have you gone mad?
TATOO
Have you any
idea what kind
of matter you
have spoilt? Do
you know that?
LILY No,
but.
TATOO
How could you
know?
It’s me who has
to think about everything.
You only look
after your own
damned interests.
LILY
let’s drop it!
Are you scolding
me because I fainted
once?
TATOO
Not because of
this, but because
of the spoilt
matter.
LILY
Well, dear. You exaggerate now as you did
with your swan’s
lake.
TATOO
I don’t! Do
you know what’s
going to happen?
LILY
Nothing.
TATOO
Do you remember
the husband and
wife who were
shot from a Kalashnikov
gun in a car
with their two
children? They
owned a hotel
like ours. Don’t
you remember?
LILY Why
must they shoot
us?
TATOO
There is no
use talking to you
if you don’t
understand even this!
My lord! Cursed
be the day
when we went shares
with these rotten
husband and wife
and bought this
out-of-the-way hotel! Yes!
yes! Why
are you looking
at me?
LILY
So these husband
and wife are...
rather than our
partners .
TATOO
They are informers and
the host took
them into share so
that they could
control us! Clear?
LILY One of
them seems to
be a harmless
person and the
other-- a harmless
recidivist!
TATOO
But only at
first sight!
LILY
But if they
control us cannot
we control them?
TATOO
We cannot, we’ve fainted.
LILY
Don’t start that again!
TATOO
Then let’s not
fertilize sterile women!
LILY
And this one
somehow reminds me
of that one...
TATOO (
strikes him on
the hand) Shut
up ! The son
of this host
was violently killed with a knife
and a fork!
How else can
the lord make you
understand that you
are sinful ? And
if again you
fail to understand
and arrange all
these rotten hotels
along the whole border,
engage in the
heroin traffic and
organize it all
in such a way
that your partners
inform you against
each other then
you are miserable, really miserable
even if you
are a general of
the State Security
Committee or a marshal.
LILY
but where has
the State Security
Committee gone?
TATOO
these are the
methods of the
State Security Committee!
LILY
then I’d say
he is very
fond of organizational work.
TATOO
I’ll tell you what’s going
on!
LILY
what?
TATOO
half a million
dollars varnished in
that organized system! All the five hundred
thousand dollars! The cost
of one thousand
grams of heroin. What
would you do
if you were
the host?
LILY
what should I do?
TATOO
listen to me!
Siko-Torpedo had to bring
two lemons to us. We
had been waiting
for him in
Gudauta the whole
day. He wasn’t able
come there. He brought the
money here. Then something happened, didn’t it?
LILY
probably.
TATOO
but we don’t
know what happened. We
must have slept
or had visions!
LILY I
wish we hadn’t done it!
TATOO
and half a
million dollars disappeared!
LILY yes.
TATOO
but how, how did
the money disappear? Was
it a trance? Or is
it the
credit of the
World Bank or
humanitarian aid, that nobody
is responsible for it?
So, what would you
do, if you
were the host?
LILY
I say, Siko-Torpedo
stole the money
and made off
to the Bahamas’ offshore
zone! What else should
I think?
TATOO
it’s out of
the question! What’s
the reason of
taking only half
a lemon?
He could
have taken two lemons!
LILY
haven’t thought of
that!
TATOO
This Siko-Torpedo invested
four millions in
these hotels. Do
you think he is
mad to have stolen
half a lemon?
LILY
Right you are.
He isn’t mad!
TATOO In
short. Either we, you and
me, or they
took it!
LILY
I swear by
you I didn’t.
TATOO
So, they have
a nest!
LILY Whose
nest? Swallow’s?
TATOO
venomous snakes’!
LILY There
are no snakes
here.
TATOO
Cannot you guess
that snake took
it?
LILY
I don’t know,
she had itching
all over her
body and ...
TATOO
They probably fucked
using the false
“Siko” and this caused
allergy. A big
deal!
LILY What
happened then?
TATOO
I’ll tell you!
After Siko-Torpedo had
left, he quietly slipped
to you, looked
if you really
fainted or not, and
then took half
a million out
of this suitcase without angels, thought —“Why do
I need that
much? And the
rest will come
into my hands “ and
hid it.
TATOO you
, whores! I shall
not be a woman
if I don’t
bake a pasty
from your blood
and feed this
simulator Siko-Torpedo with
it.
LILY
it’d be a
pleasure to eat
a smoked pasty
now. What if he didn’t
take it?
TATOO
then, you took it.
LILY
I swear I
didn’t.
TATOO so,
it’s a
deal planned beforehand!
Do you know
what they are
doing now?
LILY
how could I know?
TATOO
they are urgently
phoning the host
to say we
stole these five
hundred thousand.
LILY
shall I believe
they are capable of
such meanness?
TATOO
give me my
mobile phone, I’ll prove
it to you at once!
FX.
DIALS THE NUMBER. PAUSE.
TATOO
(Cont’d) you see, it’s engaged!
LILY
try again!
FX. TREIS
TO PHONE AGAIN.
TATOO
Engaged! A stab
in the back!
LILY
Try again, call and say
that not we,
but they stole it! Come on, come on! The rotten
should get their
deserts!
.
8.
THE TOPSY-TURVY DIALOGUES
THE ROOM
DOWNSTAIRS
FX. CLINKING OF GLASSES.
DEVI
to our health!
BOA Fuck
them all! To our
health! (they drink).
DEVI
What shall we
do now?
BOA
let’s smoke a
cigarette.
DEVI
what shall we smoke?
BOA
a cheap one.
DEVI
shall I smoke
too?
BOA
yes, but not much.
FX. STRIKES
A MATCH.
DEVI it’s
nice! Let me
caress your head!
I am tired of waiting for you!
BOA (
kissing) my beautiful
eyes!
DEVI I
have burnt my
fingers.
BOA
(kissing) my beautiful
fingers!
DEVI
a bumble-bee stung
me there!
BOA where?
DEVI on
the “driver” or
“putter”.
BOA
my poor “driver”
and “putter".
DEVI
don’t kiss me!
BOA
Later, at night
as we do
it! Will there
be any hot
water?
DEVI
only ten litres of
diesel are left
and we are
burning it.
BOA
yes, after the
bath!
DEVI
you need me
only for this! (sound
of steps) one
doesn’t caress for
no particular reason..
BOA
what’s the matter
with you?
DEVI
nothing. Phone again!
BOA
it doesn’t have
any sense, they have
already reported everything.
DEVI
what shall we do?
BOA
I wish there
were two lemons in
the suitcase. We’d bring
it to the
HOST and asked
him to put
off the payment of
interests for three
weeks.
DEVI
what if we
ask for it now?
BOA
he’ll say what
do you think
about the disappearance of half a lemon?
DEVI
rotten!
BOA
he’ll say go
and first bring
this money otherwise
you’ll lose your
hotel.
DEVI
degenerate!
BOA
and you will lose your
life too!
DEVI
cretin!
BOA
the matter is
that business is
not only playing
golf and painting!
DEVI
imbecile!
BOA
if you don’t
bring this money
I swear I’ll
tell him!
DEVI
a snake! Both
male and female!
BOA
and if he
learns, you know, he’ll
hang you on
a tree by
your “driver” or “putter”.
DEVI
who is he?
BOA
the chief! You
are lucky to
have no children yet.
DEVI
they shot those
husband and wife
together with their children
in the car!
BOA
how happy our
jealous and wicked
neighbors will be!
DEVI how can
one be prone
to such meanness? What
will happen to us?
BOA
how do I know?
I cannot
endure such nervousness anymore!
All our idiotic
life has passed
in paying interests
and debts!
DEVI
well, don’t lose your heart!
BOA
we’ve made fools of
ourselves from the beginning! We
shouldn’t have bought
this rotten hotel
with the borrowed
money! Well, I agree
it is wonderful,
stunning, three rooms
overlook the river,
five rooms overlook
the peaks of
the Caucasian range,
it’s located on
the military road.
But nevertheless we
shouldn’t have bought
it.
THE ROOM
UPSTAIRS
TATOO
we’ve made fools of
ourselves from the beginning! We
shouldn’t have bought
this rotten hotel with
the borrowed money!
Well, I agree it
is wonderful, stunning,
three rooms overlook
the river, five
rooms overlook the
peaks of the
Caucasian range, it’s
located on the
military road. But
nevertheless we shouldn’t
have bought it.
LILY
well, don’t lose your heart!
TATOO
how do I know?
I cannot
endure such nervousness anymore!
All our idiotic
life has passed
in paying interests
and debts!
LILY
how can one
be prone to
such meanness? What
will happen to us?
TATOO
how happy our
jealous and wicked
neighbors will be!
LILY they
shot those husband
and wife together with
their children in the car!
TATOO
the chief! You
are lucky to
have no children yet.
LILY
who is he?
TATOO
and if he
learns, you know, he’ll
hang you on
a tree by
your “driver” or “putter”.
LILY
a snake! Both
male and female!
TATOO
if you don’t
bring this money
I swear I’ll
tell him!
LILY
imbecile!
TATOO
the matter is
that business is
not only playing
golf and painting!
LILY
cretin!
TATOO
and you will lose your
life too!
LILY
degenerate!
TATOO
he’ll say go
and first bring
this money otherwise
you’ll lose your
hotel.
LILY
rotten!
TATOO
he’ll say what
do you think
about the disappearance of half
a lemon?
LILY what
if we ask
for it now?
TATOO
I wish there
were two lemons in
the suitcase. We’d bring
it to the
Host and asked
him to put
off the payment of
interests for three
weeks.
LILY
what shall we do?
TATOO
it doesn’t have
any sense, they have
already reported everything.
LILY
nothing. Phone again!
TATOO
what’s the matter
with you?
LILY you need
me only for
this! (sound of steps)
one doesn’t caress
for no particular
reason..
TATOO
yes, after the
bath!
LILY
only ten litres of
diesel are left
and we are
burning it.
TATOO
Later, at night
as we do it!
Will
there be any
hot water?
LILY
don’t kiss me!
TATOO
my poor “driver”
and “putter".
LILY on
the “driver” or
“putter”.
TATOO
where?
LILY
a bumble-bee stung
me there!
TATOO
(kissing) my beautiful
fingers!
LILY I
have burnt my
fingers.
TATOO (
kissing) my beautiful
eyes!
LILY it’s
nice! Let me
caress your head!
I am tired of waiting for you!
FX. STRIKES
A MATCH.
TATOO
yes, but not much.
LILY
shall I smoke
too?
TATOO
a cheap one.
LILY what shall
we smoke?
TATOO
let’s smoke a
cigarette.
LILY
What shall we
do now?
TATOO Fuck
them all! To our
health! (they drink).
LILY
to our health!
FX. CLINKING OF GLASSES.