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I'm posting the script here, cause i've no internet. Sorry. Steph, please copy down to microsoft word. thanks!

Mui Choo_(Dramatic, frustrated sigh) You see ah, when man and woman come together, sometimes they make baby.

Baby_ How?

Mui Choo_(Groping for words, ideas) Out... of... FOOD. Yes! They eat the food, and then the Mummy make the baby inside her stomach.

Baby_ How?

Mui Choo_ I no know. The Mummy no know. Only the stomach know, but lucky for baby, the stomach very good at making baby. The stomach know how to make rice into hand, chicken into leg, kailan into head!

Baby_ Wow, clever stomach!

Mui Choo_ After a long time, baby come out. Baby come out very beautiful. Baby can become man. Or woman, and make more baby.

Baby_ What does Daddy do?

Mui Choo_(Silent for a while) Daddy gives Mummy the first part of the baby.

Baby_ How? Mummy eats Daddy?

Mui Choo_ Only a very small part of Daddy. Daddy like Mummy eat him. Mummy like eat Daddy.

Baby_(Smiling) So everyone's happy!

Mui Choo_ No. Sometimes Mummy and Daddy don't want to make baby.

Baby_ Oh.(Looks down at her feet) Like my Mummy?

Mui Choo_(Maybe like your Mummy.

Baby_ So Mummy takes the baby out of her stomach.

Mui Choo_Yah.

Baby_ And the baby's too small to live outside the Mummy. So the baby dies.

Mui Choo_Yah. (Looks at feet)

Baby_ Didn't Mummy like me?

Mui Choo_It hurts to be Mummy.

Baby_ Like she's hungry?

Mui Choo_No. Like very full. Too full. She live with two life in one body.

Baby_ Mamma?

Mui Choo_Yah?

Baby_ Did you take your baby out of your stomach?

Mui Choo_No. I love you, baby.

Baby_ I love you too, Mamma. (Pause) It's so hard to remember what it was like inside my Mummy. It was so dark, but i wasn't scared, because I always thought she loved me.

Mui Choo_She love you, baby. She make mistake only.

Baby_ (Pause) Mamma? Isn't this place strange? Sarah told me this is the Biology Lab. People come here to study life. But everything in this room is dead.

Scene 7 NNGGGYUHUHUUUUHHHH

Mug_ Remember remember time ticks tocks slowly quickly away from me?

Death_ Hello Mug. You remember me?

Mug_ Very hard to forget every wheresome whoso what. I don't know. Am I dead yet?

Death_ No.

Mug_ I remember what it was like in the old days temples high as the moon the moon the stars in my face people seeking to find. Mind and me, see.

Death_ The Sri Vijaya Empire. You were a God of wisdom. Remember? It was beautiful. But it's over.

Mug_ Remember, remember beastbroken shards of unity, other greater, big God from West and crumble. Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. What happened?

Death_ You were only an idea, Mug. People only used you as long as they needed you. People don't treasure wisdom as much as they used to.

Mug_ Lavish distaste distaste food of the gods great bulls of steaming sacrifice suffice oh flesh propitiate me.

Death_ It's over. There's a new God now.

Mug_ Need me deed me decreed died over, years and years half forgotten across the god-gluppy sea. Am here, am now, only exam hall hymns hosanna. Who?

Death_ Only the students before the examinations. No one else prays. And they don't know who they're praying to.

Mug_ Who? Who?

Death_ It's time to go.

Mug_ Nono peoplestill peoplestill peolestill. Needmeneedme, am. Hungry. (Begins to wail) Amen.

Death_ Time come time.

Mug_ (Bear wail, squealing through his sinuses) Nggyuuuuhhh!!

Death_ Tiimmmeee. (Wails as well)

Mug_ Chckchckchck!

Death_ Nnggggyuhuhuuuuuuuhhh!

(The words dissolve into a fight, in which both make bear-like, groaning sounds and try to push the other away. Death suddenly disappears, leaving God behind.)

Mug_ 5,4,3,2, pens down.

Scene 8 Very Special Apples (The toilet. Sarah is giving Baby tuition.)

Baby_ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Sarah_ Very good. SO what is one and one?

Baby_ Two.

Sarah_ Good.

Baby_ Why?

Sarah_ Sorry?

Baby_ Why?

Sarah_ Okay, if you put one apple and one apple together, you get two apples.

Baby_ What's an apple? Wait... it's the thing that begins with A. But why do you get two apples?

Sarah_ Because one and one are two.

Baby_ But that's what I'm asking about.

Sarah_ Which part don't you understand?

Baby_ Can one and one be three?

Sarah_ No.

-afiqah