(enter Rafael, reverently, with a bowl of fruit.)

(when he reaches center stage, a pedestal rises out of the floor for him to set it on.)

(a dancer appears and hands Rafael a palette)

(Rafael takes his place at the easel)

(dramatically he begins. The instant he sets brush to canvas, underscoring begins.)

Apple.

Baa-naa-naa...

Grapegrapegrapegrapegrapegrapegrape.

BOOOOOOOOWL.

(at the word "bowl", a brilliant light appears under the bowl, transforming it from a simple earthenware vessel to a scintillating goblet of gold and gems)

(as Rafael passionately applies a few more colors, the whole stage, and particularly the bowl of fruit begins to glow with pulsing colored lights.)

(with a slash of his brush, Rafael causes a gigantic platinum stalagmite to erupt out of the floor. With a few more strokes, three more stalagmites emerge through the floor.)

(As he continues to paint, the pulsing lights begin to flash more wildly.)

(the music swells.)

(With a synthetic screech, two meteors soar across the stage and off. Their glittering tails remain suspended in the air like patterns of frost on a window.)

(Large pastel blobs - like bean bag chairs - fall from above, plummeting to the stage and landing with the sound of tympani.)

(A huge wave of water billows in from the side stage. It crests and then crashes in front of the bowl of fruit. It rises again, and billows about the stage, rising and falling, rising and falling as the music thrashes dramatically.)

(Finally, in a cataclysmic display, everything onstage bursts into flames. Music climaxes suddenly. Lights scream.)

(As the music quickly ebbs, the lights begin to recede. The wave vanishes in a squirt of foam. The pastel blobs get up and saunter off the stage.)

(as Rafael leaves his easel, a final scurry of dancers bearing large plastic bananas and oranges cross the stage behind him and exit.)

(Rafael walks to the bowl of fruit, exhausted.)

(Blackout)

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