A Touch of Colour

Corridor of Applied Science II. Publicity Agent is about to duck down stairwell but is spotted by Capt'n who has just rounded corner.

C.
Hey! Wait! I'm after you.

P.A.(pauses, a little reluctantly)
I was just going to put my new parking sticker on, we're in February, I reckon I'm pushing my luck to keep parking on campus without it.

C.
Here, let's have a look.

P.A.
Don't do that, you're not meant to peel ... hey, what a great colour!

C.
You wouldn't want to have a lime green car.

P.A.
It'd go well on a black beama.

C.
Yeah, and so would a "Paid For" sticker. I wonder how do they chose the colour each year?

P.A.
They go to the CSRC.

C.
The CSRC!?

P.A. (barely suppressing his joy at catching the Capt'n)
Yeah, the Committee for Selecting Rational Colours.

C.
Go bite your bum! (sorry, Social Realism, ed.) Look, we need to talk business.

P.A.
Fair enough, come into my office, here I'll toss the phone book out into the corridor and then we can both fit.

C.
Hell, what a shambles. It's more like the inside of a Grundy bin than an office.

P.A. (turns framed "art print" to wall, photo of VC cut from cover of the "La Trobe Bulletin" has been glued to back, randomly throws some papers to one side to clear a chair)
It's Tachism decor.

C.
It's tacky all right. Now, we need some cash to buy another case of Water Wheel Shiraz.

P.A. (reflects)
Cash, yeah, I saw an email with something about cash,
(appears to randomly shuffle books, papers, posters around, eventually the components of a computer emerge, fiddles with keyboard and mouse)
Ah, here it is (reads)
"University Experience Program at Bendigo, There is money available - $16,000 - from central University funds for the purpose."

C. (puzzled)
But we can't get any of that?

P.A.
Wait, listen to this bit, (reads) "A small play (along the lines of a successful presentation at the Bundoora University Experience Program) could then be performed".

C. (still puzzled)
So?

P.A.
So, don't you see? We'll write a play and sell it to whatever committee's running the show.

C.
You're off your head! What the (FX - "beeep" overrides ) do we know about writing plays?

P.A. (excitedly running with his idea)
Piece of cake, we'll do it the same way as we did our mission statement, pinch the best bits of other people's stuff. We'll grab a few decent plays, I've got some rubbish we did at school, it must be top shelf because you can't understand it, it's in a funny English, take a bit from this and a bit from that, fix up the names, work a university into it somewhere. It will be a winner. Its has to be. Obviously if you put the best bits of half a dozen top plays together you'll get something really good.

C.
Sounds like that car Johnny Cash sings about.
(I suspect he is refering to One Piece at a Time, Kemp, W. ed.)

P.A.
Relax, you negotiate the price with whoever. I'll bring in a script next week.

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