TRIM-JEANS THEATRE

Jolly showbiz music. A curtain goes up, revealing three actors in trim-jeans (which are heavily padded to make you sweat off weight) grouped à la advert. They all have slight Australian accents.   

Caption: 'TRIM-JEANS THEATRE PRESENTS'   

Gary: (E.I.) Good evening. This new series of 'Trim-Jeans Theatre Presents' will enable you to enjoy the poetry of T. S. Eliot whilst losing unsightly tummy bulge. Jean.     

Caption: 'THESE THREE PEOPLE ARE REDUCING THEIR WAIST, THIGHS, HIPS AND ABDOMEN EVEN AS THEY RECOMMEND'   

Jean: (G.C.) Wow, yes and the inches stay off. Mark.   

Mark: (M.P.) Terrific! Thrill to Thomas a Becket's Kierkegaardian moment of choice while making your physique tighter, firmer, neater.   

Cut to a cathedral interior. There are 4 knights and a group of clerics and nobles all wearing Trim-Jeans. Thomas a Beckett does not wear them.

Beckett: (G.C.) I am here. No traitor to the King.   

First Knight: (E.I.) Absolve all those you have excommunicated.   

Second Knight: (T.J.) Resign those powers you have arrogated.   

Third Knight: (M.P.) Renew the obedience you have violated.   

Fourth Knight: (J.C.) Lose inches off your hips, thighs, buttocks and abdomen.   

Cut back to Gary and the others.   

Gary: A terrific product.   

All: Terrific.   

Gary: And this comes complete with the most revolutionary guarantee in slenderising history!   

Cut to a man (T.J.) in trim-jeans under a sign saying 'Before'.   

Voice Over: (M.P.) This was Kevin Francis before last season's 'Trim-Jean Play of the Month' production of 'The Seagull' by Anton Chekhov and the Sauna Belt Trim-Jean Company Limited. See Kevin has slipped into his slenderising garment and is inflating it with the handy little pump provided. Three acts and a few special torso exercises later, Kevin, as Trigorin, the failed writer of sentimental romances, has lost over thirty-three inches. (same shot but very skinny John Hughman has replaced Terry J) Wow. What a difference. That Anton Chekhov can certainly write.   

Gary: Terrific.   

Mark: Terrific.   

Gary: Yes, why not join us for a season of classic plays and rapid slenderising. Enjoy Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson losing a total of fifteen inches in David Storey's 'Home'.   

Mark: Enjoy the 'The Trim Gentlemen of Verona' and 'Long Day's Journey into Night' while inches melt away.   

Jean: Enjoy Glenda Jackson with a Constant Snug Fit and Solid Support in all four areas.   

Gary: Other productions will include... 'Treasure Island' ... (Long John Silver in trim-jeans) 'Swan Lake' (cut to a photo of two ballet dancers in a 'lift' position, both wearing tights and trim-jeans) 'The Life and Loves of Toulouse Lautrec', (cut to a photo of Toulouse Lautrec, his feet sticking out of the bottom of the trim-jeans) and the Trim-Jeans version of 'The Great Escape', with a cast of thousands losing well over fifteen hundred inches.   

Cut to scrubland, barbed wire a la prison camp in the background. After a few seconds a head appears out of a hole in the ground. He looks around then gets out. He is wearing trim-jeans. He looks back. Satisfied he beckons. Others start appearing. Three German guards behind the wire muttering.     

Superimposed Caption: 'INCHES LOST SO FAR'   

A superimposed counter shows the numbers increasing.   

Guard: Achtung! Halt! Halt!   

A moment's panic. Shooting starts and a siren goes. Men pour out of hole rapidly. Guards pursue them with tracker dogs in trim-jeans. The counter goes berserk.