A Battle of Mimes
Initial Ideas
Initial Ideas
Outline
The screen fades in to the sound of applause as one mime
enters the stage from the left confidently.
He takes a bow.
He cups his ear to the audience then raises his arms for
more applause. He gestures at a second mime entering the stage from the right.
The second mime takes a bow.
The second mime begins to walk toward the second, but looks
shocked as he encounters an invisible wall in the middle of the stage.
He begins to explore the wall with his hands.
The first mime runs over and joins him in examining the
wall.
The second mime walks away from the wall towards the
audience, shrugging.
He looks confused and scratches his head.
The first mime continues examining the wall. He leans
against the wall, and pushes against it, as he gestures to the audience crudely
to watch what he is doing.
The second mime turns back towards the wall, catching the
first mime attention seeking.
He sighs and rolls his eyes.
He walks over to the wall, the first mime still playing with
it.
He kicks the invisible wall over; the first mime is now
holding the wall up trying not to be crushed.
The second mime laughs as the first mime struggles to get
from beneath the invisible wall.
He gets invisible balls out of his pockets and begins to
juggle them, ignoring the first mime.
The second mime gets free and storms off to the left, facing
away from the second mime.
As he turns his head to look at the second mime he notices
one of the invisible juggling balls he has dropped rolling towards him.
He picks the ball up and throws it at the second mime.
The second mime is hit in the face, and drops the rest of
his balls.
He looks down at the dropped balls furiously.
The first grins at the audience smugly, pointing at the
second mime as they applaud the chaos on stage.
The second mime scoops up several of the balls off the floor
and starts throwing them at the first mime.
The first mime picks up an invisible baseball bat off the
floor.
He hits one of the balls into the audience. Both mimes watch
as the ball flies into the audience.
They wince as they think they may have hit something
important.
The first mime wipes his brow in relief.
He proceeds to chase the second mime off stage to the right
with the invisible bat.
He returns to centre stage thinking he has won and takes a
bow.
Suddenly he runs off stage to the left, looking behind him
as if he is being chased.
The second mime returns to the stage and whistles in the
direction of the first mime.
He pets an invisible dog, laughing.
He takes a final bow and signals the other mime to join him
as the audience go applaud.
Credits roll.
