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Scene 1 The Troubled Man (//Here in New York, the story takes place in a small shop owned by our main protagonist, Bob Appleton. The store is settled on a small city block. Not too many competitors around him. In his small, but well off candy store, Bob Appleton was cleaning his counter, when he looked over his shoulder, and came across a startled realization.//) Bob: Oh no, I am running out of candy. What am I going to do? (//Just then, a pamphlet flies in through his window and hits him in the face//) Bob: Ouch. That hurt. What’s this? Hmm… I should check out this supplier store. Maybe they have some candy I can buy from them! (//Bob quickly hangs up his apron, grabs his keys and runs out of his shop//) Scene 2 The “Goods” (//In her store known as the Eastern Middle, Nahlah is sleeping on the counter. Bob walks casually into the store, and looked awkwardly at how big the store was compared to his. When he saw Nahlah sleeping, he looked with a puzzled look.//) Bob: Um…what are you doing? Nahlah: Oh! Um…I was, uh…reading…the back of my eyelids? Bob: I saw your flyer. What kind of candy do you sell here? Nahlah: Well our bestseller is our Hershey Chocolate bars, but we do have some other types of candy. Why don’t you take a look around? Bob: Sure. That would be great (//He looked around the store to find many Hershey’s chocolate bars. He looks at the prices and sees that there is a profit to be made//) Bob: Wow, this chocolate is at a good price! I should buy some from her and sell it for even more at my store! I’d be able to buy a bigger store for me. Score! (//Nahlah makes her way through the aisles of candy//) Nahlah: What would you like to buy? Bob: I’ll take 500 pounds of this chocolate please. Nahlah: 500 POUNDS!?! Well if you really want it. Then you can have it. Scene 3 Eunice Joins the Business (//Mean while Eunice is closing her store. Looking at some papers with a frown whilst flipping through them.//) Eunice: Oh, the candy is running low. I should probably find a place to buy more. (//She is on her way home when she sees the Eastern Middle. She enters the store and sees Bob and the store owner talking’ she waits for them to stop talking and sees Bob leave.//) Nahlah: And here you go Mr. Appleton. See you next week. (//Turns to Eunice//) Hi, can I help you. Eunice: yes I need to find out what kind of candy sell to stock my shop Ropee‘. Nahlah: Well everyone seems to like the Hershey chocolate bars, would like some? Eunice: Yes, I would like that. Can I have 600 pounds of those please? Nahlah: Sure thing. That will be $6,000. Eunice: Okay. (//Eunice leaves store with chocolate and puts it in her shop.//) Scene 4 Bob Goes Solo (//All is the same in the store. Nahlah is in her store, counting her chocolate. Nahlah realizes she is running low on chocolate. She decides to raise her prices cause of supply and demand. Bob Appleton walks in.//) Nahlah: Hello, are you here to buy more chocolate today? Bob: Yes, I would like to buy the usual. Nahlah: Okay, that will be $7,000 Bob: Wow, that’s way up from last time I was here. What happened? Nahlah: I’m running low on chocolate, so I’m raising my prices. Bob: You’ve raised your prices too high. I’m going to make my own candy, at my own, reasonable price. (//Bob leaves the store//) Scene 5 The Newcomer (//Eunice walks after Bob leaves and realizes that he quit buying from Nahlah’s store.//) Eunice: Why did he quit? Nahlah: Because I raised my prices as I am almost out of chocolate. I suppose you are going to quit buying from this store also? Eunice: No, I will keep buying from you. Supply and demand is natural, I’ll buy the usual. Nahlah: Thank you. That will be $8,000. (//Bob walks in//) Bob: Hahahahaha, I have finally made my own candy. However, because you have helped me for so long, I will let you be the first to try my candy. Nahlah: Okay I’ll try it….after all you are my friend. (//Nahlah takes a piece of candy and also gives one to Eunice to taste; they both spit out the candy and start looking for water because the candy was that bad.//) Nahlah: You are my friend so I’m just going to say it. This candy tastes like pollution. Bob: Oh, so that’s why nobody wants to buy my candy. Nahlah: I’m afraid so. (//At this time, Mr. Toki Ozi comes into the store. He sees the people in the store and thinks to himself//) Toki (//Aside//): Hmm….they’re talking about candy. I should pop by them and see if I can benefit from this. (//To Bob//) Hello. My name is Mr. Ozi of Ozi’s Sweets. But you can call me Mr. O. Toki O. did I hear you guys talking about candy? Nahlah: If you can call this candy. Bob: I tried making a new variety and it ended up horrible. Toki: Here let me try a piece (//takes a bite. Tries not to spit it back out//) well... this tastes quite different…with a little help and changes this could become good though. (//Aside//) Wait I just thought of something. If I endorse this guy, and his candy ends up being a hit, I can get rich off of him. (//Back to others)// I’ll be willing to endorse you in your experimentation in candy, in return for some cut in profits. Bob: Alright then, deal Toki: Deal…let’s go make some candy. Eunice: oh well I still want to buy from Nahlah. Scene6: SUCCESS!!!!!!! (//The scene is still in the Eastern Middle but half the shop is replaced with a divider and part of Bob’s shop. Bob’s side has Mr. Toki Ozi and Bob frozen mid task. Nahlah is sitting in her shop doing her usual tasks of stocking the shelves and taking inventory. Enters Eunice with a small package and a letter. She goes to Nahlah and hands her the mail.//) Eunice: A package for you. It’s from Bob and Ozi. Nahlah: I wonder what it is. (//Opens letter and starts reading.//) Dear Nahlah, I hope you are doing well. Ozi and I certainly are.- (//Bob’s side of the stage unfreezes as they do their task. Bob begins speaking were Nahlah stops.//) Bob: After a few weeks of research we found a way to make the tastiest candy ever. Right now my store has just expanded and Business is booming. I’ve sent you a package of our new product. This time it’s a freebie. See you around. Bob. (//Bob’s side freezes again//) Nahlah: Aw that’s so sweet of them. (//Nahlah opens the package and eats some.//) Eunice: Isn’t it good. Nahlah: Maybe I should buy some more… Scene 1 The Troubled Man (//Here in New York, the story takes place in a small shop owned by our main protagonist, Bob Appleton. The store is settled on a small city block. Not too many competitors around him. In his small, but well off candy store, Bob Appleton was cleaning his counter, when he looked over his shoulder, and came across a startled realization.//) Bob: Oh no, I am running out of candy. What am I going to do? (//Just then, a pamphlet flies in through his window and hits him in the face//) Bob: Ouch. That hurt. What’s this? Hmm… I should check out this supplier store. Maybe they have some candy I can buy from them! (//Bob quickly hangs up his apron, grabs his keys and runs out of his shop//) Scene 2 The “Goods” (//In her store known as the Eastern Middle, Nahlah is sleeping on the counter. Bob walks casually into the store, and looked awkwardly at how big the store was compared to his. When he saw Nahlah sleeping, he looked with a puzzled look.//) Bob: Um…what are you doing? Nahlah: Oh! Um…I was, uh…reading…the back of my eyelids? Bob: I saw your flyer. What kind of candy do you sell here? Nahlah: Well our bestseller is our Hershey Chocolate bars, but we do have some other types of candy. Why don’t you take a look around? Bob: Sure. That would be great (//He looked around the store to find many Hershey’s chocolate bars. He looks at the prices and sees that there is a profit to be made//) Bob: Wow, this chocolate is at a good price! I should buy some from her and sell it for even more at my store! I’d be able to buy a bigger store for me. Score! (//Nahlah makes her way through the aisles of candy//) Nahlah: What would you like to buy? Bob: I’ll take 500 pounds of this chocolate please. Nahlah: 500 POUNDS!?! Well if you really want it. Then you can have it. Scene 3 Eunice Joins the Business (//Mean while Eunice is closing her store. Looking at some papers with a frown whilst flipping through them.//) Eunice: Oh, the candy is running low. I should probably find a place to buy more. (//She is on her way home when she sees the Eastern Middle. She enters the store and sees Bob and the store owner talking’ she waits for them to stop talking and sees Bob leave.//) Nahlah: And here you go Mr. Appleton. See you next week. (//Turns to Eunice//) Hi, can I help you. Eunice: yes I need to find out what kind of candy sell to stock my shop Ropee‘. Nahlah: Well everyone seems to like the Hershey chocolate bars, would like some? Eunice: Yes, I would like that. Can I have 600 pounds of those please? Nahlah: Sure thing. That will be $6,000. Eunice: Okay. (//Eunice leaves store with chocolate and puts it in her shop.//) Scene 4 Bob Goes Solo (//All is the same in the store. Nahlah is in her store, counting her chocolate. Nahlah realizes she is running low on chocolate. She decides to raise her prices cause of supply and demand. Bob Appleton walks in.//) Nahlah: Hello, are you here to buy more chocolate today? Bob: Yes, I would like to buy the usual. Nahlah: Okay, that will be $7,000 Bob: Wow, that’s way up from last time I was here. What happened? Nahlah: I’m running low on chocolate, so I’m raising my prices. Bob: You’ve raised your prices too high. I’m going to make my own candy, at my own, reasonable price. (//Bob leaves the store//) Scene 5 The Newcomer (//Eunice walks after Bob leaves and realizes that he quit buying from Nahlah’s store.//) Eunice: Why did he quit? Nahlah: Because I raised my prices as I am almost out of chocolate. I suppose you are going to quit buying from this store also? Eunice: No, I will keep buying from you. Supply and demand is natural, I’ll buy the usual. Nahlah: Thank you. That will be $8,000. (//Bob walks in//) Bob: Hahahahaha, I have finally made my own candy. However, because you have helped me for so long, I will let you be the first to try my candy. Nahlah: Okay I’ll try it….after all you are my friend. (//Nahlah takes a piece of candy and also gives one to Eunice to taste; they both spit out the candy and start looking for water because the candy was that bad.//) Nahlah: You are my friend so I’m just going to say it. This candy tastes like pollution. Bob: Oh, so that’s why nobody wants to buy my candy. Nahlah: I’m afraid so. (//At this time, Mr. Toki Ozi comes into the store. He sees the people in the store and thinks to himself//) Toki (//Aside//): Hmm….they’re talking about candy. I should pop by them and see if I can benefit from this. (//To Bob//) Hello. My name is Mr. Ozi of Ozi’s Sweets. But you can call me Mr. O. Toki O. did I hear you guys talking about candy? Nahlah: If you can call this candy. Bob: I tried making a new variety and it ended up horrible. Toki: Here let me try a piece (//takes a bite. Tries not to spit it back out//) well... this tastes quite different…with a little help and changes this could become good though. (//Aside//) Wait I just thought of something. If I endorse this guy, and his candy ends up being a hit, I can get rich off of him. (//Back to others)// I’ll be willing to endorse you in your experimentation in candy, in return for some cut in profits. Bob: Alright then, deal Toki: Deal…let’s go make some candy. Eunice: oh well I still want to buy from Nahlah. Scene6: SUCCESS!!!!!!! (//The scene is still in the Eastern Middle but half the shop is replaced with a divider and part of Bob’s shop. Bob’s side has Mr. Toki Ozi and Bob frozen mid task. Nahlah is sitting in her shop doing her usual tasks of stocking the shelves and taking inventory. Enters Eunice with a small package and a letter. She goes to Nahlah and hands her the mail.//) Eunice: A package for you. It’s from Bob and Ozi. Nahlah: I wonder what it is. (//Opens letter and starts reading.//) Dear Nahlah, I hope you are doing well. Ozi and I certainly are.- (//Bob’s side of the stage unfreezes as they do their task. Bob begins speaking were Nahlah stops.//) Bob: After a few weeks of research we found a way to make the tastiest candy ever. Right now my store has just expanded and Business is booming. I’ve sent you a package of our new product. This time it’s a freebie. See you around. Bob. (//Bob’s side freezes again//) Nahlah: Aw that’s so sweet of them. (//Nahlah opens the package and eats some.//) Eunice: Isn’t it good. Nahlah: Maybe I should buy some more…

Allegorical Play Translations Each shop stands for a different country or continents resource reservoir. The names of the shop owners also represent the countries/continents. Ropee` = Europe = Eunice Big Candy Apple = America = Bob Appleton Ozi’s Sweets = Asia/Japan = Mr. Toki Ozi The Eastern Middle = Middle East/Saudi Arabia = Nahlah So when they go to the Eastern Middle to stock their shops, they are really stocking their natural energy recourses. The candy represents different types of energy resources. Hershey’s = Oil/Gas Bubble Gum = Failed ‘Green’ Energy Reese’s Cups = Energy that replaces dependency on gas/oil

When the Hershey’s start to run low, the oil isn’t being pumped out due to the well being dry and then prices go up. Bob being America starts looking for a way to get new bio fuel so he can be less dependent on the oil and not have to pay as much.