Act II – Scene 10

Waiting for the Worms

Setting – Pink's Mind.

(FASCIST PINK and his hammers begin to march. One of the soldiers hands FASCIST PINK a megaphone.)

FASCIST PINK: Eins, zwei, drei, alle!

(The music begins.)

THE WORMS and PINK (offstage VO, in harmony):

Aaaah….

TENOR WORM

Ooooh….

WORMS and PINK:

You cannot reach me now.

Aaaah….

TENOR WORM:

Ooooh….

THE WORMS and PINK:

No matter how you try,

Goodbye cruel world, it's over,

Walk on by.

PINK (offstage):

Sitting in a bunker,

With THE WORMS:

Here behind my wall.

FASCIST PINK (with backup from THE WORMS):

Waiting for the worms to come!

PINK:

In perfect isolation,

With THE WORMS:

Here behind my wall.

FASCIST PINK (with WORMS backup)

Waiting for the worms to come!

(FASCIST PINK begins to ramble about random subjects in the megaphone for a short moment.)

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To cut out the deadwood!

SOLIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To clean up the city!

SOKDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To follow the worms!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To put on a black shirt!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To weed out the weaklings!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To smash in their windows and kick in their doors!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

For the final solution to strengthen the strain!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To follow the worms!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

To turn on the showers and fire the ovens!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK (through megaphone):

For the queers and the coons and the reds and the Jews!

SOLDIERS:

Waiting!

FASCIST PINK:

To follow the worms!

(FASCIST PINK and the soldiers stop marching and freeze in place.)

PINK (with backup from THE WORMS):

Would you like to see,

Britannia rule again,

My friend?

FASCIST PINK (with backup from THE WORMS):

All you have to do is follow the worms!

PINK (with backup from THE WORMS):

Would you like to send,

Our colored cousins home again,

My friend?

FASCIST PINK (with backup from THE WORMS):

All you need to do is follow the worms!

(An electric guitar riff plays part of the melody from 'Another Brick in the Wall' as FASCIST PINK begins to ramble again in the megaphone and paces. The soldiers face stage right and form into two single file lines, and begin to goose step in time with each other, which leads them offstage. The famous 'March of the Hammers' scene is projected onto the wall. While all this is happening, an offstage crowd begins to chant.)

CROWD (offstage VO, loudly and on beat, repeated several times): HAMMER! HAMMER!

PINK (offstage, loud and long): STOP!

(Immediately everything stops. The crowd goes silent, FASCIST PINK stops rambling and exits, and the projection and music are stopped. Black out. Curtains.)