Overview
- Female: 1
- Male: 2
Context
This scene achieves three important tasks. First, it provides insight into how the town staff manages so well despite the new Town Manager being a very proper, well-educated but clueless boss. Secondly, it shows how the Town Foreman loves heavy machinery and their capabilities. It also provides foreshadowing for the creation of the “cabbage cannon”. This brilliant weapon plays a large role in a pivotal “theatre of the mind” scene at the climax of the story which transports the audience to the
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Edna: Hang on. I have to announce you.
Harry: Are you kiddin’ me? You have to announce me? We don’t even have the equipment to do that. I oughta know cuz ol’ Stuffy Hat would have made me install it.
Edna: The equipment is on order through a communication grant we applied for. Mr. Bottomly says we have to practice for when it comes in. (Pretends to press a button) MR. BOTTOMLY! MR. SANDERSON IS HERE TO SEE YOU! (Lights up in Cedric’s office.)
Cedric: (pressing an invisible button with a flourish) SEND HIM IN! (Harry shakes his head and goes in the office. Lights go to half in reception area. Edna mimes typing, phoning, etc.)
Harry: Good Mornin’ Mr. Bottomly.
Cedric: One moment Mr. Jones... (Pretends to press the button again) “MRS. FARNSWORTH! PLEASE HOLD MY CALLS DURING THIS MEETING. Good morning, Mr. Jones. What can I do for you?
Harry: I just wanted to thank you for the new equipment you got passed through town council.
Cedric: (looking puzzled) Equipment?
Harry: Didn’t even hit our budget as it was paid for by an inter-governmental grant. It was amazing.
Cedric: It was?
Harry: Yup. Great work by all involved. I finally got that 2000 kilowatt generator with the heavy duty wiring harness (starts getting very excited) and the super-refined copper windings and moulded rubber feet for positive grounding vibration protection. And a...
Cedric: Yes, it sounds lovely, I’m sure. And why did we need one of those again?
Harry: Oh, that’s so we can have power and lights while we’re working out at the sewage lagoon. And that 500 PSI compressor was a heck of a deal, too. With the eight inch hose and 500 cubic feet per minute of sewage pushing power, we can blow out the sewer lines like nobody’s business.
Cedric: Oh yes... THAT equipment. Yes, yes... the uh... generator and that... sewer... thing. That took a lot of tough dealings with those shrewd inter-governmental types, let me tell you. I am surprised I was successful.
Harry: We always are, too, sir.
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