TROUPE
I have some ideas/I agree/ I'm not sure about all the eggs, etc.
(AS TOBY)
(Yorkshire accent)
Ey up!
(pronounced "eye up")
'Scuse me, lads.
(AL heads turn. SHAKESPEARE - in disguise- has entered.)
(as TOBY)
Name's Toby Belch. A humble actor from York, I come seeking an audition for the
Bottom Brothers.
NICK
That's us.
Oh! What an honor. I hear tell you are creating a work that is... incendiary.
Monumental. Bigger than Shakespeare.
(to troupe)
Did ya hear that? That's right. Toby, was it?
SHAKESPEARE (TOBY)
From York.
We are working on something pretty special. It's a play full of songs-about an
omelette.
(dropping accent)
That's the great idea?
Nick
What?
Shakespeare (Toby)
I said, “that’s a great idea!”
(hands him paper)
Here’s my head-sketch and resume.
(reading)
Hey. You’ve been in every one of my plays.
(feigning deference)
I’m a massive fan. and it’s so unfair that Shakespeare gets all the praise and attention and the money—
(rubbing it in)
So much money—when your plays are in a class all of their own.
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