DB and Scruff Play # 6 by Kate Herbert, April 2020

COVID ISo Project

 

 I have not yet recorded this play, as I didn't want to play a young man with Cerebral Palsy. DB and Scruff is Play # 6 in the Cycle of 8 X 10.

 

ANNA runs a music class for differently abled youth and she and DANNY share experiences and write a Rap song satirising their bullies.

8 X 10 - A cycle of 8 plays approx 10 minutes each

 

Play # 1 Baggage
Play # 2 Phone Calls on a Train
Play # 3 Social ME-dia
Play # 4 Lover Boy!
Play # 5 The House That Alex Built
Play # 6 DB and Scruff
Play # 7 Thievin’ Thugs
Play # 8 Foxy’s Hangout

 

The 8 plays are connected not by a narrative thread, but by themes and characters. A character that is only mentioned in a play then appears in the following play until we get to Play # 8, when a character is mentioned who appeared in Play # 1.

 

As I wrote the plays, I realised that each dealt with a different social issue: bullying, perceptions of disability, street violence etc. I then noticed that each play had characters using mobile phones and that phone technology had become a character!

 

Cast

Baggage – 1 Woman, 1 Man

Take My Phone -Please! – 3 Women, 2 Men

Social ME-dia – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Girl

Lover Boy! – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Boy

The House That Alex Built– – 1 Man, 1 Woman

DB & Scruff – 1 Man, 1 Woman

Thievin’ Thugs – 2 Men (2 off-stage voice)

Foxy’s Hangout ­ – 2 Men

                     

 See extracts on following pages of blog.