Allegiance

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When the performing arts and arts teams studied this passage in preparation for Urbana, we found it’s so deep and so serious that to translate it into a five-minute sketch seemed nearly impossible. During an improv exercise we tried out the idea of a couple of friends talking another out of following through on the master’s command to “…trade with it [a mina] because I am coming back”. We ended up with dark comedy, a piece that challenges us to consider risky, costly allegiance to the King.

This sketch requires two comic actors and a straight player (Rachel can be shifted to a male actor if needed) plus an extra to serve coffee at the start. For the funniest spend time developing character and well-coordinated movement.

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Excerpt:

JESS
So—

THEO
—tired.

JESS
and

THEO
Ufh!

THEO
If I have to look at one more fish I’m gonna be sick.

JESS
Rolling pins and ovens: don’t get me started—

THEO
(grossed out) Slimy and wet, everything, always — and that smell?

JESS
Croissant, brioche, doughnut, baguette. And the second I wait for the yeast to work he’s all — Hurry up! The bread won’t rise itself!

Enter RACHEL, dazed.

THEO
Oh, hey Rachel.

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