Talk:Arts: Street Theater
I'm bummed that my skits didn't get discussed. Is there anything I can do about it? I can't make meetings. I shared them with S. via google groups. Thanks for posting minutes.
Script: The Waiting Room
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The Waiting Room
Below, a location, date, and four characters to use as the basis for street theatre improvisation. Time & Place June-teenth, 6/19/11, Emancipation Day. Waiting Room of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital of last resort, Boston, MA. It serves many incarcerated persons. It is not a public hospital. Characters A black man in shackles waits. An older white woman waits to have her ears cleaned. She’s deaf as haddock and not eligible for car at the Shattuck, but she went there because she figures its a hospital and it takes too long to see her doctor. She’s lonely. A woman sits behind the reception desk doing paperwork. She represents the health insurance companies. Jesus/MD MD The large crowd, including Occupy Boston, is commemorating Emancipation Day, in Franklin Park, just outside the hospital. Plot Notes The MD needs to decide which patient to see next. MD/Jesus and Receptionist confer about different billing plans, payment options, how much the MD will make from each patient.. This is where facts about commercial health care get across. The MD sends the receptionist to speak to both patients.Possible ending; the older woman says that the MD should see the black man first. OB bursts in and saves the day, Jesus on the shoulders of protesters preforming miracles. Dialogue Notes The crowd can be heard via bull horn. Crowd: Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Able, your brother? Receptionist/Cain said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” Receptionists: Fill out this form and take a seat. And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying...” Leviticus: You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind... Proverbs; he who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard. Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintains the right of hte afflicted and the destitute. The story of the good samaritan; Luke 10: 25-37 mathew 25: when I was hungry….I was sick and you visted me...I was in prison and you came to me... Corinthisans 12:25-26 we are one body