Adventure #84 and #85: Minot, North Dakota and Coram, Montana (and also lower Manhattan)

This is a short play about coincidences. This is Pen Pen, coincidentally reminding you that new episodes of Breaking Bad start next Sunday (unless you live in the Greater Boise region in which case you should be at my show at Dearborn in Caldwell DVRing the Breaking Bad premiere).

SCENE 1

A bar in Minot, North Dakota. Nathan, a punk from New York in his late 20's enters wearing a t-shit with a picture of The Kraken eating the Brooklyn Bridge.

BARTENDER

Oh! Nice shirt! I have that same one. Brooklyn Industries, right?

NATHAN

Yeah cool! Did you get it in New York?

BARTENDER

No. Minneapolis.

NATHAN

What a funny coincidence!

SCENE 2

The same bar. 5 minutes later. At a table with one of the other bands.

SAM

You're from Brooklyn? We just played there.

NATHAN

Cool. Where at?

SAM

Goodbye Blue Monday.

NATHAN

Word! I love that place. That's pretty much across the street from my house!

SAM

What a funny coincidence!

SCENE 3

The same bar. 5 minutes later. At the merch table.

LISA

Yeah, Catherine was in New York during some of the Occupy protests.

NATHAN

Really? I'm involved in a lot of Occupy stuff.

CATHERINE

Oh cool. What sort of stuff?

NATHAN

Mostly puppeteering. Did you ever see the Lady Liberty puppet? I helped build that and perform it a lot.

CATHERINE

Yeah, actually. It's in a video for one of my songs.

NATHAN

Did you film it at Duarte?

CATHERINE

Yeah.

NATHAN

On #D17?

CATHERINE

Yeah.

NATHAN

I'm totally in your video walking behind you the whole time. A friend of mine sent it to me last year. You're that Catherine Feeny?!

CATHERINE

What a funny coincidence!

SCENE 4

Duarte Square. December 17^th, 2011. Catherine is shooting a music video. Nathan has no idea he's in a music video.

SCENE 5

20 miles west of the border of North Dakota and Montana on a random Sunday in August.

CURTAIN CALL MUSIC