
Colta.ru offers readers to fragments of the play by Konstantin Bogomolov “My Blaster is discharged”, written for production in the Liepais Theater, which were kindly provided by the author. The text is published in the author’s version, original spelling and punctuation are preserved.
Funeral in space. ADVERTISING
MANAGER
The deceased is put in the coffin, the coffin is loaded onto the ship. Sending ships every three days. There, the ship is attached to the station - and coffins are unloaded from it. Then they are taken to a special platform - and, having performed the procedures - the funeral service and the like - pushed - like this (shows) - like a boat from the shore. Very beautiful. Music sounds. For relatives, a broadcast is carried out. And if anyone wants to, it may be present during the settings procedure - as we call it.
A relative of the deceased
This is so strange - when a person flies into outer space. You see how he is moving away. And you can’t do anything. You cannot rush for him - because you will not return. And this is so accurately in relation to death. So sometimes I want to rush for the dead. But you see how he floats away from you. In black. With every second he is further. And the desire goes out in you every second. And he disappears in the distance. This is an incredible experience. The coffin rotating slowly in the darkness of the cosmos is a literal image of death slowly in zero gravity.
A relative of the deceased
I don't understand what happened to us. It was some kind of centuries-old sleep, understand? We buried the dead in the ground, as dogs bury their poop. like this. it's horrible. Do you understand? it's horrible…
MANAGER
We highlight them, coffins. Everyone shines - there are very powerful LEDs installed. They can be seen for millions of kilometers. Do you understand how wonderful it is? You look at the night sky with myriads of stars - this is a huge cemetery. And it is always with you. Always nearby.
Logo
Aeterna Magica . Become a star.
LOVE
The first man
You heard - she has a new man!
The second man
Yes. Andris.
The first man
She sleeps with everyone.
The second man
Not with everyone. She sleeps only with dying.
The first man
Truth?
The second man
Yes. She sleeps only with dying.
The first man
Andris is dying?
The second man
If she is with him, then yes.
The first man
And if a man does not die, is he not interested in her?
The second man
No
The first man
Why?
The second man
Don't know. She says that special magic comes from a dying man. Special energy. Don't know. When she meets the patient with cancer, she goes crazy. Hangs on his neck. He takes away from the family if he has a family.
The first man
Well, this is love to the coffin.
The second man
funny.
The first man
Some kind of game.
The second man
Why? This is often in women. Do you know Alla?
The first man
No.
The second man
Mom Arthur.
The first man
Ah, yes.
The second man
She works in the hospice. She sleeps with men there. With patients. She says that death is beautiful. that death is autumn. She is funny. And patients are all in love with her.
© Zedonis Safronov / Liepaisky TheaterSUN
The astronomer is probably
Everyone thinks that the sun is a ball - a ball of fire. But this is not true. The sun is such a huge wound. A non -healing wound. How does she warm? Heat comes from her. After all, heating comes from any wound. Let's conduct an experiment. Look. We apply the wound.
Applying the wound
We take the thermal meter and bring the heat meter to the wound. Look - heat comes from the wound. The device shows that from a wound 1, heat 1 comes 1.
As we know from the Sun, the heat of equal 10000000000000000000000 °
At the same time, the area of the sun is 1000000000000000000000000
Thus, from a piece of sun the size of this wound comes the heat equal to heat emanating from my wound.
What proves that the Sun is just a fire -ooom -like wound.
It remains only to understand - what is this wound? Whose? Whose suffering we have been warming all these years? And why does this wound not heal?
PREGNANT
Dad, mom, hello!
Hello.
How did you rest?
Great, son, great. They bathed a lot, sunbathed, ate fruits.
The sea is good?
Great! Warm, clean.
Were there jellyfish?
No! I brought you
Son, wait. I have to tell you something.
I listen to you, mommy
I am pregnant.
Pregnant?
We hired a black man there and he fucked me. This father wanted. Not me. But I was not against it. He fucked me and my father shot it on film. He said - there will be a memory of rest. And the Negro fucked me. He had such a huge member. I was even scared at first. But the father was near. How then - when you gave birth. He was near. And the Negro fucked me. And I became pregnant.
Why are you telling me this? This is your business with dad.
© Zedonis Safronov / Liepaisky Theater The son leaves
The pensioner is walking along the street. There is a bench.
Two girls are sitting there about fifteen.
She is discussing her stomach
Girls, where is the consultation here?
There, around the corner.
Thank you
How old is she, what do you think?
80 somewhere.
***. Do they not know what a condom is? Or do not think about what will happen? Here she will give birth to him - let's say - and then? Who will sit with him?!
*** Generation. completely ***.
This ***. No sense of responsibility. So old, I lived so much - and no ** * responsibility.
The pensioner, meanwhile, reached the clinic.
She climbed up the stairs to the entrance - went.
She is already at the doctor
Hello
Hello. Sit down. I listen to you
I am pregnant
I see
I want to terminate the pregnancy
Do you want to get rid of the child?
Yes
How old are you?
83
And the father?
He agrees
A child is a joy. This is happiness.
I know. But it must be cut out.
Why?
I'm not ready. Not ready for such responsibility. I want to live for myself. I went through so many troubles and deprivation. Through the war. Through the camp. Through the occupation. I want to live for myself.
Fine. Let me look at you
Looks
It's too late for you to have an abortion. We must give birth
from ***. I pulled everything pulled.
The doctor consults another doctor
The old woman came. With the stomach. He thinks that she has a pregnancy. He wants an abortion to do. And she has no pregnancy. She has cancer. tumor
so what? who cares. And so and so - cut.
late. And it is too late to cut the fetus. And a tumor. The stomach is like in the eighth month. The tumor is inoperable. I will write to her anesthetic
No need.
Why?
Let him think that he gives birth.
For what?
Just. funny. will yell in pain as during childbirth. But in fact it will die.
funny.
Blaster
The General of the Cosmic Troops broadcasts
General
We were looking for life in space. And we sent the living there to find the living there. But other civilizations did not make contact. Then we suggested that our strategy was incorrect. The living living repulses. The living attract the dead. Not dead matter, but dead. We conducted an experiment.
experiment
General
As you can see, the experiment clearly proved our idea. And we made a decision. We will send there, to the great blackness of space, not a robot, not a dog and not a living person. We will send there dead. Some of us have to become the first dead man sent into space.
The general aims from Blaster in one of. Blaster does not shoot.
General
***. My blaster was discharged.