ANNA
runs a music class for differently-abled youth and she and DANNY share
experiences and write a Rap song satirising their bullies.
CHARACTERS 1 MALE, 1 FEMALE
DB (DANNY): 20, has
Cerebral Palsy. His speech is slow and awkward. Loves Gangsta Rap. His dog,
Scruff, is unseen but barks to singing off-stage.
ANNA: 30ish. In wheelchair.
Works part-time in office. Completing Music degree.
SETTING
Before a workshop for
disabled youth. Large room with chairs.
Extract from DB and Scruff
ANNA: 30ish. In wheelchair. Works part-time in
office. Completing Music degree.
DB:
Come here, Scruff! Stop annoying Anna. I’ll take him outside.
DB coxes Scruff off-stage,
re-enters. SCRUFF barks off.
ANNA:
Why do you like Gangster Rap so much, Danny?
DB:
Call me DB. Cos they attack the people
who attack them. They use music to say the things we can't say.
ANNA:
They certainly stick it to the powers that be.
DB:
What's the powers that be?
ANNA:
People with power over us.
DB:
Like the government?
ANNA:
Yeah.
DB:
Or social workers?
ANNA:
Yeah.
DB:
And teachers? (laughs)
ANNA:
Well, I'm not a teacher that treats you badly.
DB:
Nah! You're ok. (laughs)
SCRUFF barks off stage.
ANNA:
Thanks.
DB:
And you only teach the music /drama class once a week, so you’re not really a
teacher.
ANNA:
Not like schoolteachers. Did you get hassled again?
DB:
Those guys outside the station.
ANNA:
And?
DB:
Usual stuff, calling me spaz and fucktard and...
ANNA:
Anything else?
DB:
They chased me onto the platform and stood around me while I waited.
ANNA:
Must’ve been scary.
DB:
You get used to it. It happens nearly every day.
ANNA:
Same guys?
DB:
Nah. Different. There's a few kids shout at me from the school.
ANNA:
You mean the Secondary College?
DB:
Nah. Primary.
ANNA:
Kids at the primary school taunt you?
DB:
(nods) They're about 10.
ANNA:
Boys or girls?
DB:
Both. Sometimes just girls. They just stand at the gate waiting for me and shout
things.
ANNA:
Like?
DB: Oh, you know, the way I walk like a spaz or my headphones or my singing. (laughs) They really hate my singing (laughs) but it's fun so I'm not gunna stop just cos of some kids.
DB: Oh, you know, the way I walk like a spaz or my headphones or my singing. (laughs) They really hate my singing (laughs) but it's fun so I'm not gunna stop just cos of some kids.
ANNA:
Good for you!
_ End Extract
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