The Genius (Hollywood)

Sunday….

Its been half an hour, since the end of the performance

Old bat setting on a rocking chair, while smoking marijuana. Sorry, it was just a simple cigar. but you can be sure, because he is fuc*ing old bat.

While sitting on the chair, thinking of his glorious days, when he used to bang many women. Not that he will say anything to his wife.

Then Eren enters…

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Old bat office~

The room is not too big, not too small. Its medium. Queal office chairs and tables are not directly in front of the entry door. But the left part of the wall.

And the opposite, there is a big bookshelf. On one side, books are kept on the other side files.

But if you look carefully at it, you can see Playboy magazine.

Thats sticking out of books. Old Queal knows how to hide a book.

On the left wall, there is a huge Monalisa picture. Obviously, its fake. Because in the original picture, Monalisa was not in a bikini.

Not only that, there is a great poster of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, both sides of it.

When someone sits in the office/ boss chair, they would get a great view from the right side of the window. The scenery would be great if there was a beach.

Alas….. there is none.

But a park.

Where angels would be jogging, but old mans eyes, angels are laughing and playing.

And thats where a rocking chair is … just near the window…

….…….

I don know why Boss called me.

I still remember, when my boss interviewed me.

I gave interviews in many theatres, but none except me. Might be, due to my clothes.

Yes, my clothes were old, but I washed them regularly. But the other theatre boss acts as I smell. And they would ask someone else to interview me. And by the looks on their face, I know, I am already rejected.

But my current Boss did none.

He asked me to introduce myself. After the introduction, he asked me, ”you already passed out of high school, so Why are you not going to university, don you want to go for higher education ”.

I replied, ”of course, I want to. ”

Then he must have seen my hesitation, so he said, ”it must be for ivy college, you must want to join ivy college. So, you are taking a break? ”

And I was like, ”yes yes that is why sir ”. While nodding my head frequently.

Then he asked me ” you could have joined another job, an easy job, you might get a little higher pay than the theatre but still why do you want to join the theatre. ”

I don know why, but the answer was on the tip of my tongue and it just wanted to be released.

After hearing my replies, he raised one eyebrow. After a few seconds, he smiled. And asked which job in theatre you want.

I immediately replied ”director ”.

He looks at me, like minutes. but I felt like hours.

Then he point his finger at the Marilyn Monroe poster, and asked ”whats her size ”

I didn know what he meant, so the sound that came from me was ”mmmm? ”

And he just smile and said ”boy your eye is not matured enough, after its mature, then you can be a Good Director ”

By the way, later I found out, what he meant. -_-

Anyway, he asked me to choose another

I replied ”playwright ”

He said, ”do you have a drama? ”. I said ”Yes ”.

So, he asked me to show him the drama script.

After reading it for 5 to 10 minutes.

he said ” its a good drama. But in our theatre, a new drama already running. So sorry Kid ”

And before I could reply, he told me, ” And no other posts are available. The only available post is Usher. do you want it? ”

When I hear it. one thing comes to my mind, Then why the fu*k, you asked me, which post do you want? is your brain ok? Old bat

Instead of saying what was on my mind, I replied ”yes sir ”

And you already know, the rest of the story.

And yeah, he helped me, in applying for Usher union. Without being in the Usher union you can be an Usher. because its illegal and the theatre cannot hire volunteer Ushers.

Not only that but also helped me, with the copyright of my drama. saying that ”its a good drama, and someone might copy it ”

And no, he didn pay the copyright fee in the copyright department. Which is actually a small amount.

I paid for it. I just don want to be in any more debt. He already helped me very much.

Today, he asked someone to inform me to meet him after the night, when the show is over. And he has something important to talk about with me.

I just hope, its nothing serious.

Only time will say if its serious or not.

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I am an artist, who wants to show, his art to everyone. Not a capitalist, who runs after money.

But still an artist needs to eat food and look after fellow people.

Our theatre business was going well.

Well, not so well. But still, it was nothing too serious that, I could not handle. After all, I have been in this business for almost thirty years.

I have worked as a producer, director, and playwright.

So, you can say, I have rich experience in this business.

Its just that, due to inflation, business is not very good.

Not only that some very good staff resigned, to find a better path for themselves, or got much good offer than ours. Who knows, what the truth is?

Not that I care.

its just that, my new Play didn do well. And it gave me a heavy blow.

Now, that I remember, the new kid. When joining our theatre, he showed me a script. and the script was very good.

He not only wrote a script but also made a storyboard.

But the problem is that both script and storyboard are not good for theatre. Yes, its very good for movies. But for theatre? No.

So I asked someone to inform him, to visit my office.

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Near the rocking chair, there is a coffee table.

On the coffee table, there is a file. Which has a collection of some A4 paper.

On the file, anyone can see, and read the cover page. Which point out, what is the file about.

On file, its written, …

[Les choristes rêvent]

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