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Posted on: Oct 14, '08

Merchant of Venice in the Fropper Court of Law!!! - Part II

Merchant of Venice in the Fropper Court of Law!!! – Part II

Call it daydream; or fantasy; or a writer’s imagination -------- the expression doesn’t matter; semantics!!! ha haaaaaaaaaa I just happened upon this schoolbook of the girl next door; and the book was titled, ‘Shakespeare’s plays, retold’. I borrowed the book and read it for old times’ sake! And I had just devoured ‘The Twelfth Night’, ‘The Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’, when the lights were out!!! Thanks to the ‘announced and enforced’ power cuts. I just remained on the chair, engulfed in darkness, too lazy to move a limb; and I’d have had to move more than a limb to switch on the charge light, which was nowhere near me! And in that state of stupor, when my mind too was on a limbo, this seed of an idea walked into my mind --- and it grew; and grew; and grew; till it was a tree the size of the one in ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’! And I thought I’d do a J K Rowling!

What if there was a similar situation on fropper? Oh boy! I could almost see the characters; they walked across; acted out their parts; they WERE the parts! And soon as power was restored, here I’m; sharing it with all of you!

Cast of Characters!

Antonio – The Fropper Spirit
(the main cast)
Bassanio – Mr. Fropper
(Antonio’s friend,
in love with Dagny)
Portia - Dagny Sharma
(the pride of womanhood)
Shylock – Anti-Social Fropperite
(a money lender, the
villain of the piece)
Nerrissa – Asylum
(Portia’s attendant; a
very wise friend)
Jessica - Sazzyme
(the good daughter
of the bad Shylock)
Lorenzo Solarflare
(A gentleman who wanted
to save Jessica from Shylock)

Gratiano, Solario, Salerio – Inktank, whirlwind, swiftmove
(friends of Antonio and
Bassanio)
Launcelot – rat_race
(the clown)
Gobbo – MyZoneCAN
(the clown)

***Never underestimate or degrade a clown; they are the chief entertainers; ask the event management consultants of today; they’ll tell you***

The Duke of Venice – KB of King-Bull’s –Ring fame!!!
(the most fair and
sincere Duke Venice ever
had)

Other characters who do not feature in the play, but are present behind the scenes:

manisha bhattacharya
And her biscuit baba - as ‘idea bank’ 1
sonikudi - as ‘idea bank’ 2
madhumithaCAP - as ‘idea bank’ 3
bindas Corner- as ‘don’
chithrajust - as chithra UNjust

ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD---------

Dagny’s RAMPURI- as----Dagny’s rampuri!!!

Prologue:

In the beautiful city of Fropper, there lived many happy, carefree Fropperites. Fropper spirit was the most sought after gentleman. He was so sprightly, vivacious, transparent, loving, caring, kind, gentle, fun-loving; he was here, there and everywhere on fropper; kind of omnipresent! And true to his name, HE was the real Fropper Spirit!

And now comes the real story; read attentively all of you; don’t miss a word of it!

Fropper Spirit’s best buddy was Mr.Fropper. As all other fropperites, he too was passionately in love with the most wonderful woman in the block; who else, but Dagny Sharma. But as every other fropperite, he was in perennial dread of her blasted ‘Rampuri’! He sooooooo wanted to propose to her, but trembled in his shoes when he thought of that ‘shining steel’ of hers! If dagny loved her ‘blade’, the underworld dons lusted it; the Louvre in Paris offered her a fortune for it; they wanted to hang it beside Mona Lisa; the antic lovers all over the world coveted it! But our Dagny wouldn’t part with it; not on her life; not till she’s got ‘mischief’ left in her blessed soul; the brat!

So, Mr. Fropper decided to hire bindas corner, to steal the ‘rampuri’; he figured that a ‘disarmed dagny’ would be a lot less to tackle than a ‘dagny with her rampuri’! Now, bindas corner was the most cruel and ruthless underworld guy! Even the other dons steered clear of him! But boy! He came with a price tag! And so Mr.Fropper asked his best buddy Fropper Spirit to loan him the dough. Of course, Fropper Spirit, being the most benevolent soul, agreed heartily. But just as the time came to write out the cheque, bang, crash, boom! The world market hit an all-time rock bottom; and all his shares and investments were----------were? -----No, weren’t!!! Not anymore!!!

And this is where evil entered ! The anti-social fropperite! He was said to be the devil’s incarnation; he did nothing but brew trouble; he never lacked in anything except a ‘normal beating human heart’! He had money; loads of it; he had hoarded for the rainy day; not to help others, but to harm them; torment them; torture them! As he knew and expected, it was time for the tribe to take notice of him; because he was the only one left with ‘vitamin M’; those green paper notes, without which the world would stop spinning!

And as expected, Fropper Spirit approached him!

Now Read on!!!

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