YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - ACT ONE, SCENE 8 – The Town Square

VILLAGER 1: I can feel it in my bones! There’s something very wrong going on up

there in that castle!
VILLAGER 2: You’re right! They’re up to no good I'll tell you!
VILLAGER 3: But what are we supposed to do about it?
VILLAGER 4: Where’s Inspector Kemp? He’ll know what to do!
Inspector Kemp enters
VILLAGER 5: There he is!
Villager 4 crosses to Inspector Kemp
VILLAGER 4: Inspector, have you heard? Frankenstein’s grandson is in the village!
VILLAGER 6: We’re frightened. They may be making another monster up there.
VILLAGER 7: Those Frankenstein’s are dangerous!
INSPECTOR: You’re telling me! I’ll never forget, years ago one of Frankenstein’s
creatures came rampaging through our village. I tried to stop him but I couldn’t. He
tore of my left arm and my right leg.
ALL VILLAGERS: Oooooh!
INSPECTOR: I had to go all the way to Vienna to find a top surgeon who could me
back together again.
VILLAGER 8: A top surgeon in Vienna? That must have been expensive!
INSPECTOR: Expensive? Are you kidding? It cost me an arm and a leg!
VILLAGER 9: We need to stop them before it happens again!
VILLAGER 10: Lets storm the castle!
VILLAGER 11: Everyone grab your pitch forks!
VILLAGER 12: Lets show them what we’re made of!
VILLAGER 13: STORM THE CASTLE! STORM THE CASTLE!
All Villagers join in
VILLAGERS: STORM THE CASTLE, STORM THE CASTLE, STORM THE CASTLE
VILLAGER 14: (shouting) WAITTTTT!
Everyone goes silent
VILLAGER 14: We don’t know what’s going on up there in that castle. This Doctor
Frankenstein might be guilty or he might be innocent. And why is it in every low-
budget monster movie there’s always an angry mob shouting “Storm the castle!”?
It’s such a tired cliché!
INSPECTOR: Hmm, you’ve made a good point. Let’s not rush to judgement. We’ll
save the storming for later. Meanwhile we’ll pay a friendly visit on the doctor,
pretend to be welcoming him to Transylvania, while we’re in fact doing some serious
work class schnooping!
ALL VILLAGERS: YAAAAA!
INSPECTOR: Follow me!
They all exit behind the Inspector.