Word: scaphio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of the princess, Utopia deteriorates into a crime-infested country, with the ineffective king himself under the thumb of two judges of the Utopian Supreme Court, Scaphio and Phantis (played by Adam Feldman and Jonathan Deily respectively...
...Scaphio and Phantis slander the king in the Palace Paper--a gossip newspaper that makes scandalous assertions about him. The mysterious author of these starting revelations--about how the king bathes in rum punch and gets showered down by a garden hose--is the king himself, who desperately tries, under Scaphio and Phantis' coercion, to make a statement about his sense of humor...
...stage is already complex enough, with peripherals such as the hilarious public Exploder Tarara (Leo Clark) and the meek Vice-Chamberlain (Mark Hagar) adding to the confusion, without Scaphio falling in love with the Princess Zara. In one of the play's most humorous moments, Scaphio talks insensibly about his love for Zara, whom he calls "intoxicating, a veritable goddess," prompting Phantis, who has loved the princess all along, to reply with characteristic understatement, "Yes, the girl is perfectly okay...
...alone with her father, Zara criticizes him for letting the country lapse into such a state of affairs, and directs her anger primarily at the Palace Paper, which she calls "ungrammatical twaddle." The unhappy King, whose bruised ego has been dealt yet another blow, finally confesses the hold that Scaphio and Phantis have over...
...they set about their task of forming a company out of the country, where "every child has its own prospectus" and "every man, woman and child is a company limited," Dramaleigh and Goldburg woo the two highly repressed princesses, much to the annoyance of Lady Sophy, Phantis and Scaphio...