Little One and Other Plays

Hannah Moscovitch

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781770913387
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Canadian Drama
• Index: Literature

A chilling psychological thriller, Little One is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire—one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable—and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail-order bride. In Other People's Children, wealthy young power couple Ben and Ilana hire Sati, a live-in nanny, to care for their baby daughter, but Sati ends up being more than a caretaker, exposing the fragility of Ben and Ilana's marriage. Is she filling the holes of their relationship, or widening cracks that will shatter their family? High school is hard, especially for Neyssa, who is not from a privileged family like her best friend Bijou. When the two get into a physical fight at school, they must confront what's really bothering Neyssa. In This World looks at what friendship means to two teenage girls from vastly different social backgrounds, while dealing with racism, class, and reputation.

scene two.

An office: a confined, cramped space. NEYSSA and BIJOU sit on chairs a couple of feet apart, facing the audience. They wait, not looking at each other. Then, after a silence, NEYSSA starts glancing at BIJOU. BIJOU stares straight ahead. BIJOU's lip is bruised and cut.

NEYSSA

I get suspended

My dad'll put me through the wall

He'll whip me.

Beat.

I got sent home for smoking one time

The smoke set off the alarms in the bathroom at my school

My old school and he

Beat.

My brother?

He backed over our cat

My mom's cat

And my dad?

He broke a bottle over his head

We were out on the patio we heard it the sound of that cat being backed over by the car

My dad

Goes over

Drags my brother out of the car

His seatbelt was still on and Dad pulls him out of the seatbelt and pushes his face into the cat

The dead cat with its guts out half-under the wheel

And then he broke the bottle over his head.

BIJOU looks at her.

What?

BIJOU

Your dad won't whip you.

NEYSSA

Yeah he will.

BIJOU

No he won't.

NEYSSA

Yeah well your parents?

You get suspended

They raise your allowance

Buy you a car some designer shit

"Let's throw some money at the problem 'cause that's my li...