Scribbled Tripe

Scribbled Tripe was one of the last plays written by the late Hann Uodaey, and is considered by many critics of the Asemic Movement to be one of his most postliterate. The play was composed in two parts, with the first act being notably shorter than the second, and included an original score written by the award winning Johnson Nyquist, known for his use of the Anti-Overture. Act one opens at dawn in northern Peru with the sea lion, Yeque, representing the Moche Everyman. We see Yeque, a self-proclaimed Luddite, contemplate different modes of being, escalating with his realization that prehistory only exists if history itself is defined. After this disconcerting performance we can see that Yeque is not a sea lion at all, but in fact a cougar with a wig. His primitivist victory is short lived, however, as the phantom-limbed dophin, representing mould technology, enters from house right to conform Yeque — turning him into one of the many mass-produced clay dishes he was just condemning. Yeque, defeated, exits: his only hope being a new life with the Ica-Nazca. Uodaey has stated in interviews that this first act embodies his anger towards the Moche civilization for “selling out.” Act two begins rapidly after Act one, separated only by the Turkish tradition of the cymbal curtain as the script dictates. We jump ahead a few years to meet the traveling vagabond, Winkelhaken, who is currently residing directly on the boarder of Greece and Bulgaria. Winkelhaken’s character has …
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