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 14 - 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
ANDILE enters, followed by SIPHO. They are both in the grip of arosta, scratching and sweating. SIPHO is counting the money he stole moments ago from EMMANUEL.
SIPHO: I have it bad.
ANDILE: Me too, mshana.
SIPHO: Please, Andile, give me a smoke. I have some of your money. I'll find the rest later. I promise.
ANDILE: I'm dry.
SIPHO: Dry?
ANDILE: All out.
SIPHO: Nothing.
ANDILE: Nothing.
SIPHO [freaking out]: How am I going to get high?
ANDILE: I don't have any goof on me. I got into some trouble bra. I have to pay off some debt first.
SIPHO: But I need a hit now!
ANDILE: So do I … So do I.
SIPHO: How much you need to pay off your debt?
ANDILE: Two sgodo.
SIPHO: Two thousand!!!
ANDILE: You can help me bra.
SIPHO: How? I only have … [He counts the money he has stolen from Emmanuel.] R200 and that's for my smoke today.
ANDILE [looking at SIPHO's neck]: What about that?
Music begins: an ominous underscoring. SIPHO looks down at the ring hanging around his neck, then back up at ANDILE.
SIPHO: This?
ANDILE: Come on, Siphs.
SIPHO [trying to change the subject]: What about your aunty's house? Let's hit that again.
ANDILE: She kicked me out again last week. [He is desperate.] There isn't a doorknob or lightfitting left to steal from that house. [Pause.] Give me the ring.
ANDILE tries to snatch the ring and the two fight.
ANDILE forces SIPHO to the ground in a headlock …
ANDILE: It's gold, nê? Give it to me.
SIPHO: It belonged to my father.
ANDILE: Asina-choice, bra!
SIPHO: It's all I have left …
ANDILE: There's no time for sentimentality Cheese boy. [Threatening.] Indlala ibanga ulaka. We need to get high.
Again ANDILE tries to snatch the ring and SIPHO is forced to fight him off.
SIPHO: I can't.
ANDILE: The pain is only going to get worse.
SIPHO: Please don't make me do this.
Music takes a darker turn. SIPHO winces from his stomach cramps, removing the necklace and clutching it in his hand. In a repetition of the earlier rope image, the cast, their faces concealed by balaclavas, move around him winding the ropes around his stomach.
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- UlwembuEmpatheatre and the Big Brotherhood, pp. 37 - 39Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2018