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Sample Ethnographic Play and Monologues for Performance. If you want to read the entire three-act play, one iteration of it is published in my paperback book, Ethno-Playography. See the book, Ethno-Playography - iUniverse. This excerpt below is not the entire three-act play. An adventure in Ethno-Playography The Play and Monologues Long Ago in Coney Island Spirited Family Empowerment (c) By Anne Hart If you wish to perform this play (at no cost to me), please email me at veganraw@live.com for permission. See below my published book on writing plays, skits, and monologues from life stories and beyond. This is a work of fiction. All names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this play or in other stories and novels are the products of the author's imagination and are fiction. Also see my website. The Play for Performances (at no cost to author) The Play and Monologues Long Ago in Coney Island Spirited Family Empowerment (c) 1987, 2011, By Anne Hart List of Characters in this Play: Meir Cohen Levi, Father of Hadara and Husband of Tsipke Hadara Cohen Levi, Baby in first chapter, then 9-year old girl, first person as narrator. Benjamin, son of Meir Tsipke, the mother of Hadara The Arab Sheik as Hadara's first husband, *Ahmed (not his real name) Eric* (not his real name), Hadara's second husband Mrs. Hesk, an older neighbor with a Yiddish accent Anne Hart Hadara's two children as five-year olds: Fawzi, Samira Hadara's two children as young adults: (17'"20 age group) Fawzi, Samira Sales clerk In-laws: Samintov Mazeltov Darlene, college friend of Hadara Black Man, in Subway Goldie, Darlene's mother Classmates, 8th and 9th grade, ages 13 and 14 Neighbors Paramedic Friends Act I Ext. Brooklyn, N.Y., Rainy Day, November 1941 AS CURTAIN RISES, WE SEE THE FRONT OF THE CONEY ISLAND APARTMENT BUILDING WHERE MEIR in front of his brick, four-family apartment house tries to adjust the lens on his box camera. He reacts to the invisible wind that slashes his face, covering his white hair and beard with his hands as his breath quickens in anger. Whippet-wiry MEIR (age 47), a janitor, is dressed in patched janitor's coveralls. From inside the house echoes of Bach peal through the apartment and can be heard outside. OFFSTAGE WHERE HEAR THE SOUND EFFECTS OF A SUBWAY elevator line grinding by, drowning out the phonograph music. TSIPKE (38), his wife, carries in one arm her blanketed two- week old daughter, HADARA. In her other arm, she tries to balance a bouquet of American Beauty roses. The blanket keeps blowing over the baby's face as TSIPKE fidgets to straighten the blanket. The baby's nerve-shattering cry pierces the wind. TSIPKE Hurry and take the picture. The baby's turning blue from the cold weather. TSIPKE shouts at MEIR. And the shouts seem to be coming from a horde of women, SCREAMING together in fury. We see the open mouth of TSIPKE. Her voice becomes an indistinguishable roar of needy demand as loud as the wind. MEIR tries to focus the camera once more. TSIPKE smiles and tries to pose as he fidgets with the lens. TSIPKE yells again and again, like a compelling tattoo. TSIPKE The baby's freezing, you jerk. MEIR Shut up! Damn it. I'm trying to keep the lens from getting dusty. TSIPKE Hurry up, neurotic. She can't breathe. What are you standing there for, got your thumb up your butt? MEIR'S temper cracks, and he lets fly with a right hook to her left chest. The baby slides from the blanket into a puddle of rain on the sidewalk. MEIR can't stop punching his wife. The deep, red American Beauty roses scatter in the rain near the baby's head. Darkened Stage New Scene Lights Come on. Spotlight on the Darkened Bedroom. Int. Nov. 1950, Same Brooklyn Apartment Night HADARA lies awake next to her mother in the rutted double bed in which they both sleep. MEIR, in the next bedroom, sleeps in twin beds with his 22-year old son, BENJAMIN. It's three in the morning. Outside the window WE HEAR THE SOUND EFFECTS OF the grinding subway train as it passes on its way from Coney Island. There's the sound of squealing metal cars as the train turns on the elevator line track. TSIPKE Remember when we played suffering? I'd rub your belly, and your doll would be delivered like a baby? TSIPKE laughs and hacks her cigarette cough. HADARA rolls over, pulling her mass of hair from her eyes. HADARA Mom, are you a worrywart? TSIPKE No. Do I look that nervous? TSIPKE pops the muscle up in her biceps to show how strong her muscles are. HADARA I'm tired of hearing about your lack of romance. I'm sick of your hands all over me playing "having a baby." It's always either how your mom gave you away when you were two, or, where daddy is off to by himself. TSIPKE Your father gave me gonorrhea. Where do you think he got it, in France during World War One? HADARA I'm not interested any more in listening to your complaints about daddy or your life story and how you ate out of garbage cans as a kid, or how dad's job is mopping toilets in the Navy yard. You just talk, but you don't change anything. TSIPKE You're nine today. You have to know. HADARA No, I don't. The radiator dried out the air again. Now my nose and throat's raw. MEIR tiptoes out of his bedroom and crawls into bed with his wife. MEIR Move over. What's the kid doing up so late? HADARA What are you doing here? MEIR ignores her and takes off his pajamas, climbing into bed to make love to his wife. Ethno-Playography HADARA Get out of here. TSIPKE Leave the kid, alone, MEIR. MEIR You kicking me out of bed? MEIR hesitates for a moment. TSIPKE is silent. HADARA I want to go back to sleep. MEIR Shut up, you tramp. HADARA Don't call me a tramp on my birthday. MEIR (Outraged) Better you should be crippled. You should have been born a boy. TSIPKE She says she got a high IQ MEIR I'll smash you one, you piece of garbage. MEIR hurries his pajamas back on and storms out of the bedroom looking for something to smash. He finds a hammer in the living room and begins to smash all the keys on HADARA's piano. TSIPKE gets up and follows him into the living room. TSIPKE Stop. I saved for months to buy that old piano. My daughter's a talented artist. When MEIR finishes smashing the piano keys, he goes for HADARA's violin. MEIR puts his foot through the violin. HADARA cries. TSIPKE jumps out of bed. TSIPKE All the kid's birthday presents! MEIR I'll teach you. MEIR, having smashed the violin, finally storms into the bathroom where HADARA's new puppy is sleeping in its basket and holds the puppy's belly against the hot radiator pipe in the bathroom until it stops whimpering. The more HADARA CRIES, the more TSIPKE backs away from her. MEIR comes out of the bathroom with his hammer in hand and begins to chase HADARA around the living room and into the kitchen, waving the hammer over his head. MEIR If I catch you, I'll cripple you. Heads will roll before you'll become a tramp and shame me. HADARA (sobbing) I'm sorry. I'm sorry, daddy. MEIR Better you should be a cripple then to be born a girl and make trouble. TSIPKE follows MEIR into the kitchen and lights a cigarette, making the motions of heating up water for coffee. TSIPKE Leave the kid alone. MEIR (Raging) I should have flushed her out into the bay with the condom before she was conceived. Better such a dog wasn't born. TSIPKE If I have to get up for a second cigarette -- Damn, those cigarettes are choking me. But you two fighting all the time are driving me to smoke. MEIR takes a swing at HADARA, but misses. HADARA darts out the kitchen and dashes through the living room and out the front door, running down the apartment steps to the basement. She hurries down the cellar steps with MEIR, chasing behind, hammer swinging over his head. In the darkness of the cellar, MEIR chases HADARA. She squeezes her body into a partially-filled co&1 bin, hiding behind an old barrel. HADARA covers herself with coal. MEIR peers around for a moment, wild-eyed. He wipes the sweat from his upper lip on his pajama sleeve. MEIR If I catch you, you die. HADARA watches him from between the wide slats of the coal bin as he swings his hammer overhead. MEIR passes a basement worktable and puts down his hammer only to pick up an ax. He slaps the ax broadside across his thigh several times. Then he sighs and puts the ax back on the table. Finally, exhausted, MEIR plods up the wooden stairs. The apartment door closes with a bang. Int. Kitchen Brooklyn Apartment. Same Night TSIPKE (staccato voice) No sooner did I put the baby on your lap then you told me to take her off because she gave you an erection. Your temper is only a bad habit. Why is it necessary to transfer your stress to me? Why isn't it important that you add to my life span? MEIR You keep hounding me just because your step father came into your room to have sex with you when you went upstate to visit your mother. TSIPKE He's your richest brother. Besides, I told him to get out. You didn't see him grabbing an ax or hammer. MEIR Girls only make trouble. You know how many times I asked the doctor to check to make sure-maybe he made a mistake- maybe she was a boy. TSIPKE Is that why you never held a conversation with your own daughter? You never smiled. Not once in your whole life did she ever hear you laugh, except at her. MEIR What about you going into your son's room to massage his feet every morning and comb his hair? TSIPKE I'm a mother. MEIR He's twenty-two. You're overbearing. TSIPKE And you're a cold fish. The only passion I ever see is anger. If that's the only way you can get power, I'm going back to bed. She turns around. TSIPKE Where's the kid? MEIR In the coal bins again. Let her rot in hell down there. MEIR staggers back to bed. TSIPKE sits on her bed with the light on, smoking cigarettes and reading old newspapers. Darken Stage or Curtain. New Scene: Int. Basement Morning HADARA peaks out of the basement window and scratches off some of the frost. She watches MEIR go off to work, walking toward the subway station. Then she climbs the stairs back to the apartment and knocks on the door. TSIPKE opens the door wearing a stained and disheveled robe. TSIPKE Benjamin just had a fight with me over you making too much noise. And he broke a lamp over my arm. I dared him to do it. HADARA Does daddy know? TSIPKE I had to tell him. So now he smashed your brother's typewriter right before his term paper is due. HADARA I'm too tired to go to school today. HADARA slowly walks through the foyer, passing and looking at her dead canary in its small bird cage. TSIPKE It caught a cough. You'll have to take it down to the garbage cans. HADARA Aw, no! HADARA runs into the bedroom. TSIPKE follows her. TSIPKE Listen, you little mouse, want to go shopping? HADARA Don't you have anything better to do? TSIPKE goes back into the kitchen and begins to fry eggs. HADARA comes into the kitchen. TSIPKE puts down a heel of rye bread for HADARA and some hot cocoa and corn flakes. Darkened Stage, Curtain New Scene: In a department store near a counter with women's costume jewelry, lingerie, and cheap cologne -- Int. Department Store, Brooklyn Day TSIPKE and HADARA walk through the department store. TSIPKE shoplifts baubles and silken wisps of lingerie, cheap cologne, and boxes of face powder, rhinestone costume jewelry and lipsticks. When no one is in the ladies room, she taker in clothing and stuffs the items into her panties. HADARA sneers. TSIPKE So that's why I wear incontinence panties. Bet you can't pronounce it. HADARA I don't want any of the beads or perfume. You've cursed them. You've given them the evil eye. We'll get bad luck. Why do you take things in tiny sizes, when you're shaped like an apple? TSIPKE enters the toilet cubicle. TSIPKE (banging on the wall) Your father gives me three dollars a day. How else can I live like a lady instead of a woman? HADARA I won't wear that crap. TSIPKE (handing her clothes under the stall) Here, stuff this into your panties. HADARA No! How come women of grandma's generation never went to school in the old country? And how come you dropped out in the fifth grade? TSIPKE I was born at the turn of the century. HADARA So were a lot of famous women scientists. TSIPKE drags whining HADARA into the fitting room with some of the dresses and items tucked inside of three dresses because the sign says only three garments are allowed in the dressing room at one time. In front of the mirror, TSIPKE tries on bras, slips, and clothing under her own clothes. But all she brings out are the three dresses she took in with her and hands them to the clerk. The rest are stashed on her person. TSIPKE (to sales clerk) These dresses aren't the right size. TSIPKE leads HADARA by the hand into the shoe department to pick out a pair of school shoes for her. They sit down to rest in the shoe department. A salesman approaches. HADARA points to a pair of saddle shoes and the salesman retrieves the shoes. The SALESMAN tries to lace the saddle shoe on HADARA'S toot. SHOE SALESMAN Well, little girl. Give me that skinny foot, here. HADARA Leave me alone, you! HADARA whispers in his ear and runs out of the shoe department. SHOE SALESMAN That filthy-mouthed kid -- I wonder where she learned that expression. Embarrassed, TSIPKE gets up and leaves to chase after HADARA. She catches up with her and slaps her so hard she gets a bloody nose. TSIPKE buys a towel and makes HADARA keep it on her nose. TSIPKE Don't make me hit you. Because if I do, I'll kill you. HADARA He didn't have to call me skinny. TSIPKE Horse-face! Why did you say that word to him in this place? HADARA He meant I was ugly. TSIPKE (Staring at HADARA'S feet) You wore those old, dirty socks? HADARA It's from the coal bin. TSIPKE You're beginning to stink just like your old man who's never taken a bath since World War One. Darkened Stage or Curtain End of Scene. *** New Scene: Back At Home. Afternoon. HADARA is reading two comic books, "The Vault of Horror" and "The Crypt of Terror. Mother and daughter are riding home, seated on the subway. HADARA See my scar? I don't know where you Stop and I begin anymore. TSIPKE So? HADARA Your curse and evil eye made me fall over that fence last summer. The year before, I got a fish hook in my leg. TSIPKE So it was my curse, was it? Does that explain the eight stitches they had to take in your chin? Now that you're a scar face, only the worse kind of man will want to marry you. HADARA That stuff you took. It brings me bad luck. TSIPKE Then don't touch it. HADARA I want to enroll myself in Hebrew School on Monday. Nobody talks to me in class in public school. I don't have any friends. And when I told the teacher, she gave me an "F" in personal relationships. Fadeout to a Darkened Stage Curtain Descends: End Of Scene. *** |
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