Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Zakes Mda: A Director's View
- And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
- THE FINAL DANCE: A script for a cinepoem
- BANNED: A play for radio
- Characters
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Scene Six
- Scene Seven
- Scene Eight
- Scene Nine
- Scene Ten
- Scene Eleven
- Scene Twelve
- Scene Thirteen
- JOYS OF WAR: A play
- Act One
- Act Two
Scene Two
from BANNED: A play for radio
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Zakes Mda: A Director's View
- And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
- THE FINAL DANCE: A script for a cinepoem
- BANNED: A play for radio
- Characters
- Scene One
- Scene Two
- Scene Three
- Scene Four
- Scene Five
- Scene Six
- Scene Seven
- Scene Eight
- Scene Nine
- Scene Ten
- Scene Eleven
- Scene Twelve
- Scene Thirteen
- JOYS OF WAR: A play
- Act One
- Act Two
Summary
SFX: Sound of piano being played on record player
BOY: Heita Bra Zet!
BRA ZET: Heita sonnyboy!
GIRL: Heita Bra Zet!
BRA ZET: Heita sweetie-pie! Hoezit?
GIRL: Sweet.
BOY: We have brought you the stuff. And this, I promise you, is the best that you can get. Die beste!
BRA ZET: Good, sonnyboy. Roll us a nice big zol. A nice big one, and we are going to smoke until we are stoned dead.
BOY: Okay Bra Zet.
BRA ZET: When are they coming… the other boys and girls?
GIRL: They will be here soon, Bra Zet. And they will be bringing more stuff and drinks.
SFX: BRA ZET puffs a cigarette, and sighs with pleasure
BRA ZET: Ja … This is great stuff, sonny… Great stuff!
GIRL: Ja … You deserve the best, Bra Zet. You are the greatest.
BRA ZET [laughing]: Even though I am now a cripple?
BOY: Nothing can destroy you, Bra Zet. You are still the greatest! They thought they could destroy you when they shot you, but they don't know what's coming to them.
[BRA ZET laughs with pleasure]
You are still going to lead your gang again, Eh, Bra Zet? You are still going to pull the big jobs! You are still going to … I remember the days when you used to be the king of all the gangs. I know those days are not over…
Joint laughter
Fade
CYNTHIA: Yes, they used to shower him with praises about his exploits in days gone by. Smoking zol after zol of dagga, those boys and girls, and showering him with praises. I could tell it was not mere flattery. Those boys and girls believed in Bra Zet.
I mean, he was a legend, and legends don't just die without even a whimper of a struggle.
[Sighing as if still lost in thought] Ja... Now what about my crocheting.
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- And the Girls in their Sunday DressesFour Works, pp. 54 - 55Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 1993