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Note: this text is for an outdoor, public performance. It is written in the style of environmental theatre, and assumes that it is playing to a foot-traffic audience.

At rise: Light rain. COMMODORE KEEN stands on a raised ledge, approximately three feet off the ground from a main throughway (perhaps a sidewalk). Several paces behind him, and raised about two additional feet off the ground is a BOY, standing at attention.

BOY
Fine day, I say!

COMMODORE KEEN
(After reflective pause.)
Fine day.

(Surveying pause. This lasts until a pedestrian or car passes by.)

BOY
Fine day, I say!

COMMODORE KEEN
Fine day.

(Pause.)

COMMODORE KEEN
It is finished.

(With a sense of dignified completeness, he steps down from his ledge, turns, and exits. Beat. The BOY follows.)