NOTE: Since I, as Izan Knarf, am on oxygen, these notes, etc. were designed for the oxygen. However, I determined I could do the performance without the oxygen during the short time required.
1. NOTES from two person practice
3. OUTLINE
4. PROP LIST
Continued on this page is the (two person) (walk on stage and do it) SCRIPT. It is different than the two person script link above.
To make this into walk on stage and do it performance I changed a few things. (FROM THE ORIGINAL) Some I already changed with the one person version. Valentine is more scantily clad and more difficult for her to hold/carry props. She would use a large silk to make the sword appear and disappear (then put it in her belt). I would have the changing bag with the ants/egg/bones inside my coat and when she says “I wanna do a trick” I would say “Oh well” and reach in and get the tools. I would also comment, something like, “Here see what you can do with this egg and these ants I got from Salvador Dali.”
…Jack……..15 February 2006
#1 Load fire wand about one hour before performance.
#2 Dress for performance about 10 minutes before scheduled time to go on.
#3 Carry (load in pockets) all the props in clothes.
We both enter at the same time (or the curtain is lifted with both of us on stage) We are both in hand cuffs and chains. We are looking down like we are resting/sleeping. We look up and remove the hand cuffs and chains and let them drop to the floor.
I shoot the fire wand to get their attention and say, “Welcome to Hell……Dayton Ohio 2006. I am Izan Knarf and this is my lovely Minion Valentine.” “I have her handcuffed so she won’t run away. She always runs away from me. I don’t know why. I am a nice guy. I have been in hell for 60 years just because I was a Nazi. What did we do wrong?”
I do the flash bill trick first to introduce the money in hell (Capitalist) “Well anyway, “For you that will do anything for a buck. Hell is the place for you. There is plenty of money in hell.” Pull out a flash dollar “The only problem is that every time it hits the air it ignites.” Light flash dollar – with butane lighter
While I am doing the introduction and flash bill trick Minion is still standing nearby and makes the sword appear from a large silk.
Minion walks toward the audience and does a sword swallow.
Minion makes the sword disappear into the silk and stores it in her belt.
The fan falls apart. “Damned capitalist. A capitalist sold this to me. They can never build anything right. Hell is full of capitalist. Yea, Regan is here. Bush and Cheney. No, there not here yet. Since we are here for eternity then time is hard to tell” Put fan back together
Minion goes near the audience (front of the stage) and does a finger flash trick while Izan is doing the Capitalist Fan trick.
Minion says, “I want to do a trick. I want to do a trick.” Minion does the egg and ants to bones trick.
Izan says, “OK, Here are some ants and an egg that Salvador Dali gave me. See what you can do with them.” Changing bag, Ants and Eggs are inside Izans coat pocket.
1. Minion shows an empty changing bag to the audience. (RED) She says, “This bag is empty as you can see” as she turns the bag inside out then back again.
2. Minion holds up several ants and an egg. She says, “Salvador Dali gave me these ants and this egg.” She says, “I am going to put them in the bag.” She drops the egg and ants into the bag.
3. Minion switches the changing bag (changes it) while saying, “Salvador Dali and Narcissus A lovely hand for me to kiss.” and pulls out the bones that look like human finger bones and says, “Bones of the hand of man. Flesh devoured by the social species – Only the bones remain.” She then kisses the bones.
Izan says, “Let’s see what I got for lunch?”
Izan pulls lunch bag out of inside of coat and inflates it, and says, “We have a lot of food in Hell. The only problem is the cooks are Jeff Daumer and Ed Gein and Ed’s momma Edna.” Minion slave hands it to me. I open and say, “Yea just as I expected, left overs. Here Minion slave give it to someone in the audience.”
I say, “See I am such a nice guy. How did I get here?? O yea it was that bullet thing. When I was out there (wave hand and point at the world) I was the greatest Nazi Magician. I did the great bullet catch trick. Fourteen people were killed doing the bullet catch and I was one of them.”
Minion turns from the audience and does the bullet catch. She pulls the gun out of her purse and says, “Here take this you Nazi.” And shoots toward me. I reach out and grab the bullet and drop it into the metal cup attached to my waist.
Minion says, “lets send the Nazi back to hell”
Minion yells, “His name spelled backward is Frank Nazi. If we say his name three times he will go back to hell. Let’s hear it. Frank Nazi, louder, Frank Nazi, Frank Nazi.”
Performance ends.