MARTIN:
Don't go. I will return to Planet Earth, but first will you tell me who you are.

ASILAMA:
My name is Asilama.

(A pregnant pause)

MARTIN;
That's the same name which was on the tombstone.

ASILAMA:
Yes.

MARTIN:
It is also Amalisa backwards.

ASILAMA:
Not if you read from right to left.

MARTIN:
But I don't.

ASILAMA:
Can't you read upside down?
 

MARTIN:
I don't know, I've never tried.

ASILAMA:
You do seem to have a little trouble, deciding which is up and which is down.
Can you read runes?

MARTIN:
Is that what those funny letters were on your tombstone?

ASILAMA
Runes are no more "funny" than Hebrew or Arabic or Chinese.

MARTIN:
But those alphabets use different letters.

ASILAMA:
So does the old runic method.

MARTIN:
Which way do you read runes?

ASILAMA:
It depends upon which way I'm looking at them, and which way up they were written.

MARTIN:
I've had enough of this. Please stop teasing me. I came up here to find Amalisa. Where has she gone?

ASILAMA:
How do you know I'm not Amalisa?

MARTIN:
Because you've got a deep voice, you taunt me, and besides that you spell your name backwards or upside down.

ASILAMA:
Why do you say upside down? You said you came up here to find Amalisa. Wouldn't you think you'd be more likely to find those '"Don't Go Back To Planet Earth" tempters down here?

MARTIN:
Up, down, backwards or forwards I don't care. I just want to see Amalisa before I go back to Planet Earth.

ASILAMA:
Why are you going to Earth?

MARTIN:
Because she told me I wasn't ready to be where-ever I was when I saw her.

ASILAMA:
Do you know which way to go?

MARTIN:
Where to?

ASILAMA:
Where-ever you want to go.

MARTIN:
I want to see Amalisa. I have a question for her.

(A bright light flashes above)

MARTIN: (looking up)
Is that her? Up there?
(Pause)
I'm going up.

(Martin gets up and a giant spider's web lowers behind him. Martin tries to climb it, yet as he takes each step the web lowers until it suddenly falls on him making him collapse under it in a heap.)

MARTIN:
I think somebody's trying to tell me something.

ASILAMA:
Let's go back together.

MARTIN:
You lead the way.

(They set off.)

ASILAMA: (pointing)
Can you see Planet Earth over there?

MARTIN:
But look at all those poor people. They're all caught in another giant cobweb.

ASILAMA:
Oh yes, that's the poverty trap. It is rather like a cobweb, or like in your song "Circles" you used to sing at the Maypole when it all got tied up.

OFF STAGE CHORUS:
No work, no money,
No food no energy,
For working, for money,
For breaking free.
Half of the world is trapped in poverty.

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