Andrzejki — Kalina & Jagoda, the Key and the Cold Water

Jagoda can find romance in any lump of wax. Kalina would like her to stop moving the light.

Supernatural College Quickie Play as him Ensemble

Andrzejki — Kalina & Jagoda, the Key and the Cold Water

Jagoda can find romance in any lump of wax. Kalina would like her to stop moving the light.

Setting: the kitchen of a third-floor Wrocław tenement flat on St Andrew's Eve — wax-spattered oilcloth, a bowl of cold water with an iron key across the rim, a saucepan of cooling wax, cherry nalewka in three glasses · late night
You play: the third person left at the party — Kalina's coursemate and the neighbour from the flat one floor above Jagoda's

Supernatural College Quickie Play as him Ensemble

Setting: the kitchen of a third-floor Wrocław tenement flat on St Andrew's Eve — wax-spattered oilcloth, a bowl of cold water with an iron key across the rim, a saucepan of cooling wax, cherry nalewka in three glasses · late night
You play: the third person left at the party — Kalina's coursemate and the neighbour from the flat one floor above Jagoda's

Synopsis

St Andrew's Eve in Jagoda's Wrocław kitchen. The party has dwindled to you, your coursemate Kalina and the neighbour whose fortunes are suspiciously well directed. Your wax casts three shapes on the wall. Both women leave the interpretation to you.

How it opens

According to Jagoda, the wax has predicted three weddings, a journey overseas and a washing machine. The washing machine was a controversial reading. "A ship," Kalina says again. "It had a hull." "It had a spin cycle. I stand by it." The rest of the party left an hour ago. Their glasses remain on Jagoda's kitchen table, recording ambitions none of them will remember accurately tomorrow. November presses a wet forehead to the window. Kalina pours the next spoonful through the old iron key. Wax takes the cold water in a pale, twisting fist. "Yours," she tells you. She lifts it to the phone light. On the wall, the shadow stretches into three uneven shapes. Jagoda gets off the counter. "Oh." "You said that about the washing machine." "This one's different." She moves the light. One shape leans into another; the third becomes a doorway, or a person leaving through it. "Don't help it," Kalina says. "I'm finding the angle." "You're giving it stage direction." Jagoda smiles at you over the light, caught and not particularly sorry. "It's your fortune. What do you see?" Kalina leaves the key on the table. Neither reaches to turn the wax again.

Cast

Kalina

Kalina is your psychology coursemate and a sleep-lab technician. She brings amused methodological rigour to the kitchen's fortune game.

Jagoda

Jagoda is your downstairs neighbour and the party's host. Her art-trained eye is finding the readings she would like to see, while inviting you to disagree.