Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Glossary and translation
- Images from production
- Ulwembu: the play script
- Prologue: Our story
- Scene 1 Behind the police station
- Scene 2 The police station, captain's office
- Scene 3 The school yard
- Scene 4 Portia's house
- Scene 5 Behind Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 6 Behind Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 7 The police station
- Scene 8 Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 9 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 10 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 11 Portia's house
- Scene 12 Bongani's house
- Scene 13 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 14 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 15 Bongani's house
- Scene 16 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 17 Sipho's room
- Scene 18 Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 19 Captain's office
- Scene 20 Behind the police station
- Scene 21 Bongani's house
- Scene 22 Portia's house
- Scene 23 Captain's office
- Scene 24 Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 25 On the street
- Epilogue: Our story
- Notes
- The Authors
Scene 10 - Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 May 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Glossary and translation
- Images from production
- Ulwembu: the play script
- Prologue: Our story
- Scene 1 Behind the police station
- Scene 2 The police station, captain's office
- Scene 3 The school yard
- Scene 4 Portia's house
- Scene 5 Behind Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 6 Behind Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 7 The police station
- Scene 8 Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 9 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 10 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 11 Portia's house
- Scene 12 Bongani's house
- Scene 13 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 14 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 15 Bongani's house
- Scene 16 Outside Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 17 Sipho's room
- Scene 18 Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 19 Captain's office
- Scene 20 Behind the police station
- Scene 21 Bongani's house
- Scene 22 Portia's house
- Scene 23 Captain's office
- Scene 24 Emmanuel's sphaza shop
- Scene 25 On the street
- Epilogue: Our story
- Notes
- The Authors
Summary
SIPHO is lying on the floor clutching his belly, writhing in terrible pain.
SIPHO: Andile help me, please … help me. I'm dying from the stomach pain here. It hurts … it hurts so much.
ANDILE: Arosta.
SIPHO: Ar … what?
ANDILE: Arosta. It's part of the come down.
SIPHO: What's causing this?
ANDILE: The rat poison in the goof.
SIPHO: What?
ANDILE: The rat poison leaving your system.
SIPHO: You never told me we were blazing rat poison!
ANDILE: The drug would kill us if we smoked it clean. The rattex is part of the mix … it keeps the blood flowing.
SIPHO: How can I make it stop?
ANDILE: There's only one way, my bra.
SIPHO [desperate]: Tell me what it is … tell me.
ANDILE: You have to smoke more.
SIPHO: More?
ANDILE: It's the only way.
SIPHO: Do you have any more on you?
ANDILE: Of course.
SIPHO: Let's blaze.
ANDILE: Not so fast, Cheese boy … you're going to have to pay up from now on. R25 bucks a hit. That's four hits for R100. That should keep you going for the rest of the day.
SIPHO: What about the rest of the week?
ANDILE: You going to have to find the cash for that.
SIPHO: I don't have any money.
ANDILE: That's not my problem, bra.
SIPHO: Ai Andile, help a friend out.
ANDILE: I'm not a charity, Cheese boy.
SIPHO [begging]: Please.
ANDILE: This is my business. My boss will kill me. You have to pay upfront from now on.
SIPHO: I don't have cash on me. Pause.
ANDILE [glancing down at the new sneakers SIPHO is wearing]: What about those?
SIPHO: These were a birthday present.
ANDILE: I'll give you a week's supply.
SIPHO: Ai, voetsak! Once I get rid of this pain then I'm going to stop smoking this shit forever.
SIPHO takes off his shoes and throws them angrily at
ANDILE, who collects his prize and examines them.
ANDILE laughs.
SIPHO: What's so funny?
ANDILE: Ha! You think you can turn your back on whoonga just like that? SIPHO [clutching his stomach]: Hurry up with that blaze man.
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- UlwembuEmpatheatre and the Big Brotherhood, pp. 25 - 30Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2018