Goose

Characters

Man
A cost benefit analyst dressed in a well used city suit

Woman
Married to man, dressed casually

Observer
A goose biologist in anorak and jeans (male)

Goose
A greylag goose (female). There should only be a suggestion of goose about the costume, but her movements should be as goose-like as possible. Her vocabulary of phrases is based on the calls of wild geese observed by Konrad Lorenz

Scenes

The set is envisaged as two wooden stepladders. This provides a house in Middle England, North Sea mudflats and Lappland through any time from the last ice age.

Scenario

Goose is a play set around the life cycle of a goose. The Goose is one of the characters and speaks within the range of communicative sounds observed by Konrad Lorenz. The Goose takes with her a Cost Benefit Analyst and his wife from middle England, and a Goose Biologist who has shamanic tendencies. The Cost Benefit Abnalyst is proposing the building of a new airport on Thames mudflats, and he remains set in his ways, despite flying across northern Europe and man's destruction of it since the ice ages.

There is a musical accompaniment to the songs which would ideally be played by members of the cast on guitar, penny whistle, flute, or any other instrument they could manage

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