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 Eight
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
POLICE OFFICER: Will you have tea?
CYNTHIA: Yes, thanks.
POLICE OFFICER: Most of the cripples you work with are the school children who were trying to rise against the government in 1976.
[Silence]
More tea?
CYNTHIA: NO thanks.
POLICE OFFICER: I am sure you will want to help us in our investigations. Those children talk with you, right? About themselves … their families … their friends …
CYNTHIA: Sometimes. Yes.
POLICE OFFICER: And about their mates who are planning to … as they say, skip the country to join the terrorists.
CYNTHIA: Even if they had such information they wouldn't discuss it with me.
POLICE OFFICER: You know that there are many of these children who have escaped to neighbouring countries to join the terrorists?
CYNTHIA: All I know is what I read in newspapers.
POLICE OFFICER [cynically]: I believe you, e h … Cynthia. I believe you. And of course when you have … eh, information you'll let us know.
So long. I am sure we'll meet again soon.
CYNTHIA: At first I was intimidated. But when I became a regular guest of the interrogation chambers I became defiant. They got nasty. I became more defiant.
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- And the Girls in their Sunday DressesFour Works, pp. 68 - 69Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 1993