{"id":32058,"date":"2026-01-10T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32058"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:46:12","slug":"waiting-for-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=32058","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Nobel…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the glittering, gilded halls of the newly branded Trump Kennedy Centre, all attention is irrevocably fixed upon\u00a0Chairman of the Board DJ Trump<\/strong>, in a move of unparalleled audacity and celestial self-humbling, has crowned himself\u00a0Resident Playwright and Star Performer<\/strong>, dazzling MAGA mortals under the sublime nom de sc\u00e8ne\u00a0ICEDON<\/strong>. With the brilliant and ever-for hire\u00a0Chatterley Grandiose Penelope Thereafter (ChatGPT)<\/strong>\u00a0at his dramaturgical playmate, on loan from the venerable Court Painter Studio; he unveils\u00a0Waiting for Nobel<\/em><\/strong>, a Beckett inspired one person production so singularly resplendent, so singularly incandescent, that even Putin himself might pause in admiration. A previous dramatic attempt, notably the tragically overcrowded\u00a0The ICEDON Cometh<\/em><\/strong>, is now but a whisper in the corridors of thespian history, for no mere troupe of actors may hope to rival the solitary hulking majesty of ICEDON, whose every gesture, pause, and weaving utterances transform the staging of Waiting for Nobel<\/strong><\/em> into a throne of adulation , the limelight into a halo, and the very air into a pure unadulterated gasp of bottomless want!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waiting for Nobel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Please note only ICEDON appears on stage.The reporter is offstage as a disembodied voice.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ICEDON<\/p>\n\n\n\n


She\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A woman.
A prize.
Peace\u2014
weighty & round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday.
Or Wednesday.
A winner’s day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am the country.
And it is me.
It knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venezuela waits.
They know how.
They almost didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONG PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REPORTER (off stage)
If she brings the prize\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must speak to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With speaking.
I charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stopped wars <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With charm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were shopworn.
They needed to be gone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India.
Pakistan.
Bombs fell\u2014
then not..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No nukes though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others tried.
Ten years.
Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrived.
It ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t want the prize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mention it only because it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mention it
because it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obama had one.
Why?
No one knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONG PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lives saved.
Millions.
Minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone said so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She will arrive.
Or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAUSE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With prize or not<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BLACKOUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICEDON bows out after numerous curtain calls<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In the glittering, gilded halls of the newly branded Trump Kennedy Centre, all attention is irrevocably fixed upon\u00a0Chairman of the Board DJ Trump, in a move of unparalleled audacity and celestial self-humbling, has crowned himself\u00a0Resident Playwright and Star Performer, dazzling MAGA mortals under the sublime nom de sc\u00e8ne\u00a0ICEDON. With the brilliant and ever-for hire\u00a0Chatterley Grandiose … Continue reading “Waiting for Nobel…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32058"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32102,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions\/32102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}