Mando the Goat Herd

Part one of an exasperating two-part trilogy.

Characters

Mando.   A shaggy young goatherd, heir to his family’s debts.

Pa.   Current proprieter of his family’s debts. Has no left hand.

Gran.  Pa’s mother, deaf as a hoot.

Splendid Pete.  The bank’s reposession agent.

As many goats as can be mustered.

Scene 1

Music plays.

A lone goat wanders across the stage. It bleats once, pauses, then laughs and bleats ag…