Prompt:
A message is delivered from a surprising source
-John Walch, playwright
Response:
A young Asian woman, TU, sits at a table in a bar in a lovely short dress with a big fruity drink with an umbrella.
A big and young American male, CARTER, sits across from her. He drinks a beer in a bottle.
CARTER
I don’t know why you’re so pissed off.
TU
(slight accent)
And I don’t know why you Americans are so stupid.
CARTER
What am I being stupid about?!
TU
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
CARTER
What about it?
TU
There’s an unfinished mall in Beijing with signs for KFC and Starbucks over stores that will never be completed. KFC and Starbucks didn’t even put up the signs. The Chinese government put up the signs.
CARTER
So what?
TU
America won.
CARTER
America won what?
TU
The war of ideology. Ideology is over.
CARTER
What?!
TU
Pizza Hut, Disney, Hollywood. Even the Indians named their film industry after America.
CARTER
Bollywood.
TU
I took the subway into the left bank of Paris. The left bank where French Revolutions began! What do you think was the first thing I saw when I came out of the subway.
CARTER
The Eiffel Tower?
TU
McDonald’s.
CARTER
So what?
TU
The one true ideology... Capitalism.
CARTER
But they blow up the World Trade Center?
TU
And you built it back again.
CARTER
Why are you telling me this?
TU
The message is old.
CARTER
What message?
Tu stands. She holds up her right fist like a boxer. She raises her lift beside the right.
TU
Sixteen tons.
Tu lowers her fists, turns, and leaves.
Curtain.
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