Scene- A backstage dressing-room area of an old circus tent. A table, a curb a mirror, a candlestick and a candle, a suitcase and a sea chest. SFX of circus noises figure out as the stage lights rise. Enter from upstage centre, Scaramouche- an ancient clown, with each(prenominal) the usual attire- white face, red nose, wig, large shoes, suit, white gloves ect.
Scaramouche: God, what a day! What a day! Good crowd, quite a good crowd, not bad for a swansong. Bah! Bloody parents these eld…neurotic thats what they are…fear and delight whats wrong with that. Ha-ha wicked old clown do it to steal your children like the Pied Piper…ha! bargain away (sings) steal away, steal away, steal away to… (Breaks off.) present moment tired. Rest here a bit first. (He makes his way to the chair and sits down heavily. Glances at Newspaper)
Ach! The Bloody jugglers been in here again, offend on me crossword, filling it in all wrong. Whats this? septet across five letters: A hundred and cubic decimetre possess comic performer. Lets see, lets see, C,C, thats Latin too, isnt it C- a hundred, a hundred and fifty, fifty L-CL, possess- own, CL- own, clone, CLOWN!! Might have bloody(a) well known. Comic performer?
Slowly, balefully, he eyes the audience.
drop out me to introduce myself: Scaramouche Jones, esquire-Clown… Englishman.
Tonight is the last night of my bearing, the thirty-first December, Anno Domini i Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-nine. The very arse-end of the twentieth century- millenary Eve.
I was born at midnight, December thirty-first xviii ninety-nine as the 19th century gave way to the baby squalling of the 20th. As a million clocks light upon midnight up and down this land, and as champagne bottles burst and talk their foaming incontinence, I shall lay down my long life and weary body precisely one hundred eld old.
He strikes a match with a flourish and lights the candle, croon to himself,
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