2016: A Short Play

DAVID - "Hi, Prince, great to meet you, my name's David Gest."

PRINCE - "Oh my God, is that Bowie?"

DAVID - "Yeah, yeah, anyway, like I was saying, my name's David Gest."

PRINCE - "I'm gonna go talk to Bowie."

DAVID - "Oh, ok, cool, man, see you in a bit. Hi, Victoria. My name's David Gest."

VICTORIA - "Wow! Alan Rickman!"

DAVID - "Yeah, Alan Rickman's over there. Anyway, my name's David Gest, it's great to meet you."

VICTORIA - "Lovely to meet you too, David, I'm just going to go and talk to Alan Rickman."

DAVID - "Oh, ok. Hi, Ronnie. How's it going?"

RONNIE - "Who are you?"

DAVID - "David Gest. We met the other day. Remember?"

RONNIE - "I don't I'm afraid. Do excuse me, I'm just going to go and talk to Terry."

(David walks back over to Paul Daniels)

PAUL - "Still no luck?"

(David shakes his head. Paul embraces him)