Fade up. Indoors, suburban street noise coming through open window. Occasional shouts in background.
WOMAN: What are you doing? You’ve been staring out of that window for two hours.
MAN: I’m not doing anything. I’m trying to work out what those nutters are up to, over there.
WOMAN: Why is that important?
MAN: Why is that important? It is important because we are an outwardly respectable couple. I am an outwardly respectable man, and you are an outwardly respectable woman. We don’t want undesirables coming round here, disrupting our accustomed routine and de-valuing our property.
See the rest at:
http://iamhyperlexic.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/an-undiscovered-fragment-of-radio-drama/
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Loriot
I first remembered Loriot, when she asked "what are you doing?"
Goes a little like this:
woman: "what are you doing?"
man: "nothing"
woman: "you cannot just do nothing!"
man: "I just want to sit here and read my papers."
woman: "you could go for a walk or something!"
man: "Please, I just want to do nothing."
*short pause*
woman: "you could blablablabla!"
and it keeps going like that
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Here is the actual text:
http://www.funparadies.de/Funwords/loriot.html
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That has a Samuel Beckett feel about it.
In my piece, there is a mild dramatic device in the Man's first line: he says he is doing nothing, and then immediately contradicts himself by going on to describe what he is doing.