Thursday, October 9, 2008

Dissimilitude.

Lights rise on the left side of the stage to reveal Samuel poutily staring at his food, while sitting alone at lunch.


Samuel:

(Downcast and pouty at first, then becomes quite excited, very hyper. Everything extremely in an extremely loud, obnoxious, and amazingly exaggerated manner)

This is the most terrible food in the world. It doesn’t even look like spaghetti. How hard would it be to give us decent food every once and a while? I mean, food grows on trees and stuff! Oh wait… I have… Chocolate! OOOOh, I haven’t had chocolate in hours! (1) That creamy Milky Way is looking so yummy… I can already feel it melting in my mouth… (2) I hate all this gross school food I have to eat first… No one in the whole world would want to eat this stuff! You know what, who’s gonna say anything if I just skip to dessert first! Yeah, Mommy won’t ever find out. I’ll just go throw away all this gross school food.


Samuel pushes his tray aside, and pulls out of his bag a large Milky Way and gleefully gobbles it all up quickly.


While this is going on, on the other side of the split screen the lights slowly rise, after the ones on stage left already have, as if the sun is finally reaching it. (Starts happening at the 1). Revealing a young African boy ( All his actions are very downcast, lacking, and understated) clutching his stomach, and pouring (starts happening at the 2) into a bowl a few kernels of rice, and blankly eating it. Then putting everything away and walking off stage right at the same time that Samuel walks of jollily stage left, holding the tray full of food he’s going to dump. Lights fade at the same time on both sides.


Fin.

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