Script of the Performance Art Piece

SECRET OF THE SUPER CODE

ŠJ.Bowman

OPENING SCENE:

Lights dim on main floor Lights (two) on at sub scene.

Queen Bee standing with worker bees around her.

Monologue Dr. Jack

" I am Dr. Jack the Entomologist and part time social insectivore In studying the social insects. Especially the wasp I discovered the super code.

The super code is the formula that is contained in all things.

Sometimes Parts of it are arranged in the same order in totally different species.

A primary example is the Human need to create parking spaces and meters. This human section of the super code is identically repeated in the Wasp super code. It is the formula that causes the Wasp to build geometrically ordered nest and to feed the larva with honey in order to maintain the social order.

Considering that this section of the super code is identical in both humans and wasp we must assume we are closely related.

So what is the Wasp?

There are two types of wasp. The solitary and the social. We are more concerned with the social wasp since he builds the orderly arranged parking area.

The social wasp is no longer an individual. He does not exist for himself or his family.

He exist only for the colony. His job is to perpetuate the colony. In fact many of the social wasp are sterile and are reproduced only as workers. So they can continue to build green paper nest to maintain the order.

The social wasp have a very ordered environment but they don't go unscathed.

A few years ago we created an insecticide called DDT. It was marketed as Black Flag. No only did it kill the bees but it also killed the birds. Without both the birds and bees our environment will die."

WAVE A BLACK FLAG OR SPRAY BLACK FLAG

"Suburban America has created their bug sizzlers. All across America on a hot summer night you can hear the sizzling of the bugs."

USE SIZZLER

"There are also insectivores

They devour the young of the wasp.

The wasp build their green paper house and think the young are secure.

But as you can see they are easily extracted and eaten."

EAT WASP LARVE

PICK UP REMOTE

TURN OFF DR JACK'S LIGHT

TURN ON FLOOD LIGHT WITH REMOTE

TURN ON INSECT SOUNDS

WAIT FIVE SECONDS

QUEEN BEE PICK UP KEY CODE

QUEEN BEE WALKS BACK TO POSITION

DR JACK SHOOTS REMOTE FLASH TWICE

QUEEN BEE WALKS AROUND DURING CONSTRUCTION OF TETRAHEDRON

* REPEATED FIVE TIMES*

WORKER BEE DOES BEE DANCE WORKER BEE CONSTRUCTS TETRAHEDRON WORKER BEE HANGS TETRAHEDRON WORKER BEE SET`S DOWN

DR JACK SHOOTS REMOTE FLASH BETWEEN EACH WORKER BEE

DR JACK SHOOTS REMOTE FLASH TO MAKE WORKER BEES GETUP AND START MOVING AROUND. QUEEN HOLDS KEY CODE OVER EACH WORKER AS DR JACK SHOOTS

**************SOUND SIGNAL FOR CHAOS ALGORITHM TO COME OUT

CHAOS ALGORITHM COMES OUT AND TAKES ANARCHIST KEY CODE FROM PEDESTAL –

WALKS TOWARD FRONT OF STAGE

DR JACK SHOOTS REMOTE FLASH

ANARCHIST WAIT A FIVE COUNT AFTER FLASH IF FLASH FAILS THE ANARCHIST WILL WAIT FOR A TWENTY COUNT

ANARCHIST DANCE ERRATICALLY AROUND CHAOS ALGORITHM

ANARCHIST SPRAY WORKER BEES WITH BLACK FLAG

BEES FALL DOWN - EXCEPT QUEEN

ANARCHIST REARRANGE SUPER CODE

REMOVE THREE TETRAHEDRONS - PLACE TWO AN HANGER TO RIGHT

PLACE ONE ON FLOOR BETWEEN THE OTHER TWO SETS

ANARCHIST MILL AROUND CHAOS ALGORITHM

QUEEN CALMS THE ANARCHIST WITH KEY TETRAHEDRON

QUEEN REVIVES DEAD WORKERS WITH FLASH PAPER

WORKERS FEED HONEY TO ANARCHIST

ANARCHIST EXIT

CHAOS ALGORITHM TURNS OFF FLASH AND RETURNS ANARCHIST KEY CODE TO THE PEDESTAL

CHAOS ALGORITHM EXITS

QUEEN ACTIVATES WORKERS TO RECONSTRUCT THE SUPER CODE (by moving Key code near them)

(Dr Jack shoots remote flash?)

WORKERS REPLACE MOVED PARTS OF THE SUPER CODE

QUEEN AND WORKERS RETURN TO OPENING SCENE

DR JACK TURNS OFF FLOOD LIGHTS

DR JACK SHOOTS REMOTE FLASH (LAST TIME)

DR JACK TURNS OFF SOUND

DR JACK TURNS HIS LIGHTS BACK ON

DR JACK SAYS

" We neither created nor destroyed the super code. It always was and always will be. Our job is to search for it, find it, and use.

However, right now I am sure you are hungry and I have made some wasp Kabobs for you.

I will pass them out."

HOUSE LIGHTS COME ON

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