Newton's Third Law

Newton’s Third Law

A spectacled man and a woman sitting across from one another at a table, eating in silence. Both have straight posture and impeccable, courtly manners.

Continues for about fifteen seconds.

Spectacled Man clears his throat.

Continues for fifteen more seconds.

Man enters wearing a fitted flat-brimmed baseball hat and baggy jeans.

Hat-wearing man (as he skips across the stage with his legs awkwardly far apart and his hand on his belt buckle in order to keep his pants up): AWHATSUP!

No response.

Hat-wearing man flips table over violently (back to crowd.)

No response. Spectacled man and woman stare blankly with their hands folded across the napkins spread neatly across their laps.

Hat-wearing man leaves stage, with a swagger-laden strut.

Spectacled man rises from his chair, picks up a previously unseen baseball bat, and follows slowly off stage while twirling the bat in his hand.

END