Scene 1. Polycarp's Barracks
A remote village. Evening. Barracks.
It's dark in the hall and on the stage. I can't see anything, but I can hear something.
Some household sounds are heard on the stage. Someone walks, someone knocks something, moves something. The sound of a spoon on an iron bowl. Heavy dissatisfied male exhalations.
In the auditorium a few people can linger and fidget in their chairs impatience understandably, the excitement and expectations of the unknown (this issue can be partially solved decoy actors, but the viewer to the point until the light on the stage does not illuminate, usually rustles, rustling, etc., that's what we need).
Polycarp (suddenly loud, strictly to the viewer chills ran down his back, and there was mixed feelings, to whom and from whom the appeal, or to the viewer, whether it already is the play). So what? How long are you going to get in?
We give a small pause of 3-4 seconds before the next remark, so that the viewer does not have time to understand anything.
Vera (nervously). Yes, what is it? Don't you know what yourself? The traffic jams must have been knocked out again! Maina – drag the lantern, so you can't see anything.
Polycarp (strictly). Okay, don't make any noise there! Not for the first time!
Myna (excitedly). I don't see it, Mom! There is no lantern in place. Petrukha, come on, he's taken it again! He spends the night at his grandmother's, constantly takes it with him. There is no lantern in place, no – that's the cross!
Vera (nervously). The dog is with him with a lantern, bring matches, light up with something already!
Rustling, walking, movement, the clink of a spoon against an iron bowl.
Myna lights a match.
In the light of the match, the faces of the mother and daughter are barely visible, who are trying to see something at the electric panel.
Myna (hesitantly). No, everything seems to be in place… Something I don't understand then…
at this moment the light turns on.
The viewer sees a cozy, rather poor house. The atmosphere is rural, modest, habitable. In the corner of the house there is a large backpack assembled. Dinner is in the house. The table is set for all family members. The father is sitting at the table, calmly eating soup from an iron bowl, in fact, he taps the spoon on this very bowl, bites a piece of bread. Mother and daughter are bridging at the electrical panel. Myna blows out the match.
Mother and daughter transfer dissatisfied glances to the head of the family. He continues to eat calmly, and clink a spoon.
Polycarp (calmly, without looking up "from the case"). And …, well, that's right. The announcement hung on the building of the village Council. Short-term outages are possible. I completely forgot.
Vera (throws up her hands nervously). No, I am so touched by this imperturbable calmness! As he ate, so he eats. At least for the sake of appearances, whether the place of deployment has changed. My daughter and I are trying something here, trying, and he, you see, is eating!
