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Cocacola ( Continued 2)
( I wrote this play for the sake of getting it performed by ENCG students
of Agadir, Morocco. Inspiration was drawn from literary texts, whose writers I cannot remember)
Act one
Scene two
( A woman in the senelity of age appears wobbling. She is dressed in tattered clothes and she relies on a stick as she is walking. A gang of pesky boys are targeting her)
A boy ( pointing at her): There she is! Ms Farina!
( The old woman sits against a gigantic poster representing a very attractive lady with a wide smile and very blond-painted hair. She is holding out a bottle of Coke while her words are being mouthed on the poster): " Drink Cocacola! Don''t you want some fresh and delicious Cocacola?"
Farina: ( She sits down against the poster. The van reaches her. It drove several times around the poster, twice, thrice, broadcasting Cocacola)
Loudspeaker: Read us and repeat us like a stanza! The words spell the same whether they are read forward, backward or across.
( Music emanating from the van is suddenly switched off in mid bar, followed by a thirty second pause to give sleepers the chance to wake up and to listen. The announcement is repeated in the same inviting tone and is made clearer for listeners to apprehend the message)
The boys: ( Take hands and start swirling around Farina). Seize the bitch! Kill her! Fry her alive! Throw out her flesh full of blood and mire to dogs. Give her bones to worms! Throw her out for wolves to consume her entirely!
Farina: ( with a goggling and anrgry look, directing her stick at one of the chanting boys): Come her! I''ll beat you out!
The boys: ( Laughing out loudly): Harass the sickning and drowsy old bitch!
Farina: ( Stands to her feet): Do you know I can murder you? Easy as that! ( snaps her fingers). That''s how assaults on old peaple end. I can make a very nasty attack on you at this very moment. ( She holds her stick straight and targets another boy)
The boys: ( With a note of hysteria) Keep clear old bitch!
Farina: ( She takes up a forward step, thus scattering the boys like frightened birds): See! This generation has no deep cause but to cause mischief in the land.
The boys ( swirling around Farina): Kill the old cow! Spill her blood Give her flesh to worms! Give her bones to lod dogs, to nibble at her and to eat her alive!
Farina ( on the verge of crying: Shame! Fell of shame! To treat an old lady like this! Ah, this worls! An infinite bustle interrupting dreams. When Man is led to aggression, he inevitably needs the habit of heaven to tame him.
The boys ( Ha ha ha...)
Farina: ( She raises her stick for silence): Reaction against the old games contradicts the habit of religion. That''s because Man is but a carefully made puppet. It has been acted with craft in this world ( hits the ground with her stick) Let the young generation remember its worth as loving and smart ones, respecting the old and the weak! Let it not infect a world made for chaste and happy souls!
The boys ( take hands and swirl around Farina): Kill the beast! Spill her blood! Kill the swine!......
Farina ( looking dismayed): I am handy with my stick. Go away! Stop your gutter fun or I''ll break your neck ( raising her stick for self-defence)
Shopkeeper ( heading for the boys): Go away! Go away or I''ll break your swine
The curtain falls
Act two
Scene one ( to be" continued later)
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Published: November 01, 2007
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