Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Frontispiece
- Love, Grime And Johannesburg
- Scene 1 A Public Square
- Scene 2 The Prison Cell
- Scene 3 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 4 The Prison Cell.
- Scene 5 A City Council Boardroom
- Scene 6 The Prison Cell
- Scene 7 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 8 The Prison Cell
- Scene 9 A Melville
- Scene 10 Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 11 The Open Door
- Scene 12 The Prison Cell
- Scene 13 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 14 A Melville Cafe.
- Scene 15 The Prison Cell
- Scene 16 Office Corridors
- Scene 17 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 18 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 19 The Prison Cell
- Scene 20 The Doorway
- Scene 21 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 22 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 23 A Cheap Bruma Lake Hotel Room
- Scene 24 The Public Square
Scene 19 - The Prison Cell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2019
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- Frontispiece
- Love, Grime And Johannesburg
- Scene 1 A Public Square
- Scene 2 The Prison Cell
- Scene 3 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 4 The Prison Cell.
- Scene 5 A City Council Boardroom
- Scene 6 The Prison Cell
- Scene 7 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 8 The Prison Cell
- Scene 9 A Melville
- Scene 10 Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 11 The Open Door
- Scene 12 The Prison Cell
- Scene 13 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 14 A Melville Cafe.
- Scene 15 The Prison Cell
- Scene 16 Office Corridors
- Scene 17 Bokkie's Study
- Scene 18 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 19 The Prison Cell
- Scene 20 The Doorway
- Scene 21 A Melville Cafe
- Scene 22 The Office of the Chief of Police
- Scene 23 A Cheap Bruma Lake Hotel Room
- Scene 24 The Public Square
Summary
QUEENIE bursts in on JIMMY's cell and finds it empty. She howls out in rage.
QUEENIE: Oh my God, an empty cell! He's gone! Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane is gone! [She addresses the audience] Bring me a pen! Bring me a pen! What kind of a police station is this with out a pen! Where are the chairs? Who's taken the tables?
Here I am, Chief of Police, and I can't even keep a prisoner locked up in a cell.
This job's impossible! My hands are tied behind my back. You need a photograph, there's no cameras. You need a statement, no pens! You need a finger print, no pads!
What is this place? You need a door open, it's locked! You need a door locked, it's open!
Well good for you, Jimmy! Show them what you're made of. You need a key, here's a key. You need a girl, then get a girl. If you need a road to the north, the road is good and long! Am I the only person in this town who believes that criminals should be locked up?
THE COMPANY sings:
EVERYONE KNOWS WHERE HE IS (IN THE SECRET SECRET SERVICE)
LULU: Everyone knows where he is
BONES: He's in her bed of course
LULU: Where else could he possibly be I've been planning this journey for him and for me But I can't make him stick to plan A, B or C Oh where could he possibly be?
Chorus:
He's in the service
The secret secret service
He's in the service
The secret secret service
LULU: Why do I love the wrong man?
Can it be true what they say?
He's a no good rotten sham
BIBI: … but a really classy lay!
BOKKIE: He's in her bed now, He's in the black whore's bed now
ALL: He's in her bed now He's in the black whore's bed now
LULU: He's impossible to hold He's impossible to know Tries to make me love him more
BIBI: … but he comes back to his whore!
JIMMY: A man of vision, He is a man of vision
ALL: A man of vision, He is a man of vision
LULU: Why does he drive me so wild?
Why does she keep us apart?
Why does he make me a child?
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- Love, Crime and Johannesburg , pp. 45 - 47Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2000