Titles. Quotation from J.A.Komensky (motto). (Orbis Pictus?)
| No: | 1 - First |
| Background: | A bit dirty Czech pub in hot weather |
| Waiter: | M good mood (Czech) |
| Customer: | M good mood (Dutch) |
| Plot: | Order for soup Waiting Soup with a fly swimming in it Dialog, fluently English: |
| Dialog: | C: Mmm, smells very well! But, ugh, what is this!? W: What's the matter? C: There is a fly swimming in my soup. W: Oh, really? I'm sorry, it's horrible, you know, they've increased in number a lot this year, listen, I have already taken five of them out bringing it here. |
| No: | 2 |
| Background: | Office |
| Waiter: | F secretary, young pretty, conceited |
| Customer: | M businessman, ambitious, impertinent, in good mood |
| Plot: | During waiting for the soup, the C teases the W. He puts a toy-fly to the soup himself. He calls her to come and see it saying she did it. She doesn't believe him, so he wants her to come closer and have a look into. He is looking on her tits; the W is very annoyed. She feels that like sexual harassment. She pours the soup on his head. |
| No: | 3 |
| Background: | Old English pub |
| Waiter: | M old gentleman, very handsome and polite, good mood |
| Customer: | F old lady, very handsome and polite, good mood |
| Plot: | The C takes the fly out with a smile herself without calling the waiter, she's very peaceful. The W turns on old music |
| No: | 4 |
| Background: | Small flat of average family |
| Waiter: | F wife tired after whole day full of housekeeping |
| Customer: | M husband pedant chauvinistic |
| Plot: | Its evening, husband comes home, switches the TV on, lays on the bed and starts to read his newspaper. His wife comes few minutes after with full shopping bags. She is very tired, but she starts to prepare the supper, the soup. We can hear their children voices from bedroom. Everybody is having fun of the fly in father's soup. ("Bad" version: They are having an argue. The soup is already cooked and the mother calls her family to come to the table. Nobody comes. She calls again. The husband says he is very busy now because of the TV. The children say they are not hungry. After half an hour the soup is cold. The husband says he is hungry and asks his wife for the supper. Then he finds the soup cold and seems to be disappointed. Fly in his plat provokes his choleric reaction. He starts shouting at his wife who silently listens at first and then leaves home.) |
| No: | 5 |
| Background: | A bit dirty restaurant |
| Waiter: | M ordinary, bad mood |
| Customer: | M entomolog |
| Plot: | the swimming fly consternates C and instead of an argument starts a lecture about the fly digestive system |
| No: | 6 |
| Background: | Common restaurant |
| Waiter: | F "crazy", in good mood |
| Customer: | F "crazy", in good mood |
| Plot: | As usual, but the W and C talks in diminutives (littles). They are saving the poor little fly... |
| No: | 7 |
| Background: | Common restaurant |
| Waiter: | F big, lazy and phlegmatic, good mood |
| Customer: | M small, elegant, strange |
| Plot: | Waiting for a very long time, C has read all the newspaper than starts call the W loudly but not annoyed yet. The soup is finally here but includes a fly. The problem is that the man hates flies. "What a hygiene! Dear lady, I asked you for beef soup, not for the fly one!" talks very loud and slowly pours the soup on the table from where it flows on the floor. "You have to pay 12,50 crowns please." "Oh no! I will never eat the soup that a fly is swimming in. The less I will pay for it. The flies! These awful slimy fuzzy flies! Have you ever seen a spider how he knows to get round a fly!? A smelling fly which licks shit and than takes a bath in my soup!" He goes out and bangs the door. |
| No: | 8 |
| Background: | Small buffet, tidied |
| Waiter: | F in good mood |
| Customer: | F crying girl |
| Plot: | A C (sad girl) comes to buffet, sits on a chair and starts to cry. W comes to her and says: "My dear, what has happened?" Girl doesn't answer. W offers her soup. C nods her head and starts to cry again. W brings her soup. C doesn't have a handkerchief. W gives her hers own and sits down beside: "Be careful, there's a fly. Poor soul, how hard is it trying? Look, don't be sad and rather help it. You are still in a better situation than it is. Aren't you?" "No, she's better. She has already got rid of all. But what about me?" And she cries, and cries, and cries. |
| No: | 9 |
| Background: | Castle in middle age |
| Waiter: | M server, poor |
| Customer: | M aristocrat, choleric |
| Plot: | An aristocrat is becoming hysterical because of the fly and he commands the cut the servers head off. |
| No: | 10/11 respectively |
| Background: | Czech/Dutch pub |
| Waiter: | Czech/Dutch "waiter's English only" |
| Customer: | group of Dutch/Czech young people |
| Plot: | Both groups are having fun of the fly in the soup. There is clearly to hear the conversation from the next table ("Hey, listen, what for funny language are they talking!"). |
| No: | 12 |
| Background: | Luxury hotel |
| Waiter: | M choleric |
| Customer: | F choleric lady, rich |
| Plot: | C feels very highbred, the both seem cocky and stubborn. A small problem with the fly becomes a big argument in which the both are losing their image of elegance and luxury. |
| No: | 13 |
| Background: | Common restaurant |
| Waiter: | F tired, cynical |
| Customer: | M+W ostentatiously happy couple |
| Plot: | Cs are kissing each other all the time and they ignore the waiter who has a bit cynical fun when the girl feeds her boyfriend tenderly with a soup including a fly evidently. |
| No: | 14 (continues of 12) |
| Background: | Luxury |
| Waiter: | F (other then in 9) |
| Customer: | M sympathetic homeless |
| Plot: | C listens to the argument about the fly in the soup then asks for it because it's good enough for him. W doesn't talk with him at all. |
| No: | 15 |
| Background: | Common restaurant |
| Waiter: | F ordinary |
| Customer: | M vegetarian |
| Plot: | C asks for vegetable soup and he's very angry when he swallows the fly in it. But the W doesn't understand his problem at all and finally she tells him, that the soup was made of beef meat. |
| No: | 16 |
| Background: | Dining room in a factory |
| Waiter: | F very stupid cooker |
| Customer: | M engineer, genius |
| Plot: | C feels ashamed when the W shouts at him in their argument about the fly whenever he's much cleverer. |
| No: | 17 |
| Background: | Full of guests |
| Waiter: | F gypsy girl, thief |
| Customer: | M skinhead |
| Plot: | C uses the fly in soup as a pretext to hit W to face. |
| No: | 18 |
| Background: | Luxury |
| Waiter: | M ordinary. Chief: F with charming beauty |
| Customer: | M ambitious, choleric |
| Plot: | C is very angry and he calls for the chief. When she comes, the problem with the fly is over at the moment and he wants to invite her for supper. |
| No: | 19 |
| Customer: | Two young people, one of them deaf-mute, communicating regularly with hand-speech. |
| Plot: | The other customer is translating everything into the hand-speech. |
| No: | 20 |
| Waiter: | Stupid-like appearance |
| Customer: | Intellectual, gentleman |
| Plot: | C tries very many different languages, but W does not understand any of them. At last, he gives up, takes the fly out of the soup and eats it. |
| No: | 21 - Last (this no. is not definite) |
| Background: | (the same as in No.1) Full of guests |
| Waiter: | M, different, speaks only Czech |
| Customer: | Different, F, speaks only Dutch |
| Plot: | They can't communicate together by words but finally they manage with their hands. Their strange communication is stranger in the fly's eyes - some special effects. We want to show its point of view and compare it with ours. The longest scene. |
J.A.Komensky comes on stage and makes conclusion ("A man is more a farmer than a master of all the God's creatures." and more his thoughts concerning problems of communication). Scene runs into the titles.