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The Boys
Gordon Graham
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Gordon Graham
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A powerful picture of a family without moral, material, aesthetic or imaginative resources, each of them victims of a cycle of deprivation from which they can see relief only through money and physical power.%##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%The vicious murder of a woman is the culmination of the frustrated expression of anger by three men, who are, nonetheless, loved and cared for by their own women. This is a disturbing piece of writing which suggests that society is failing both the victims and perpetrators of crime.
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Arte dramĂĄticoACT ONE
SCENE ONE
Lights up on the living room. It is very early morning, Tuesday. MICHELLE stands at the window, looking out anxiously. SANDRA is seated on the cane lounge with her feet up, and a blanket around her shoulders.
MICHELLE: I have to know.
SANDRA: I understand how you feel, love, but itâs not the first time the boys have stayed out.
MICHELLE: But the way they were carrying on yesterday. You couldnât help thinking. Something was bound to happen.
SANDRA: Just like always, eh? The men go off and do what theyâre going to do, and expect you to wait for them, as if thatâs all youâve got to do.
MICHELLE: Been waiting long enough, havenât I?
There is a stirring at the back of the house. SANDRA gets up and goes to the doorway leading to the rear. She calls.
SANDRA: Stevie! You get back to bed this minute! Youâve caused enough trouble already, and Iâm not having you prowling around the house in that state. You get back to bed and sleep it off, whatever it is. [She watches for a moment.] Whatever it is. [She moves back into the living room.] What can he have been doing to himself? That mad look in his eye, and coming in through the bathroom window like that, as if he didnât know quite where he was. Almost like he was high on something.
MICHELLE: Maybe he is.
SANDRA: Out of his head, he is. Senseless.
MICHELLE: Do you think he needs a doctor?
SANDRA: Over my dead body. This is a family problem, and Iâm not having any outsiders sticking their noses in.
MICHELLE: No, no, youâre right. Iâm just so anxious, thatâs all. About Brett. I mean the three of them have always done everything together, so, you know, whatever happened to StevieâŠ
From inside the house there comes another stirring sound. SANDRA goes to the doorway. She reacts with alarm as NOLA enters. NOLA is wearing a nightie, and has a blanket around her shoulders. She is visibly pregnant.
SANDRA: Oh, Nola, love, whatâs wrong?
NOLA: [sobbing] Itâs not right. I didnât do anything to him.
SANDRA: Jesus, whatâs he done now?
NOLA: He kicked me. Nearly got the baby.
SANDRA: Whatâs going on in his head?
NOLA: He stands there, looking down at me, and he says, âYou deserve it, you bitch, you can count yourself lucky youâre as useless as you areâ. Shit, what did he mean by that?
SANDRA: How could he call you a bitch?
NOLA: It was like Iâd done something wrong.
MICHELLE: You were just in the line of fire.
NOLA: Was that scary. I mean with his clothes the way they were. All ripped about and covered in muck. And all the raving he was doing, hating everybody under the sun. Especially me.
SANDRA approaches the entrance to the rear of the house, and calls out.
SANDRA: For Godâs sake Stevie, I could throttle you. [She turns back towards the others.] Oh, whatâs the use? [To NOLA] You better get to bed, love. You need your sleep more than any of us.
NOLA: No, donât want to. Not in there.
SANDRA: Yeah, you better have my bed. Wasnât going to go back to it anyway.
MICHELLE: You sure, Sandra? The way you said you were feeling yesterday?
SANDRA: No, Iâll be alright. Much better now. Go on, Nola love.
NOLA: Thanks.
MICHELLE: Yeah, Iâll come and tuck you in, okay?
NOLA and MICHELLE begin to move away.
NOLA: Was there anything wrong in wanting someone that much? When youâve had to wait so long? When youâve started to think that no-one will ever turn up?
SANDRA: Yeah, I know, itâs so hard on your own.
NOLA: You keep waiting and waiting, and you canât help thinking, well maybe heâs the one. Maybe heâll do.
NOLA and MICHELLE leave. SANDRA lies back.
SANDRA: Oh, these nights, that just go on and on, and nothing makes sense at all. [Pause.] I suppose you donât dare try make sense of it, because of the things youâve seen, the things you suspect theyâre really capable of. You donât dare try and add it all up, specially not in the black of night. Same as you donât dare talk about it.
There is a loud knocking on the front door. Taken by surprise, SANDRA sits up and listens for a moment. The knocking is repeated. JACKIEâs voice is heard from outside.
JACKIE: Will somebody open this door?
SANDRA: [surprised] Oh.
SANDRA gets up slowly and moves towards the door, now moving with some difficulty. The knocking is repeated louder. SANDRA opens the door, and JACKIE steps in abruptly. She is dressed in the uniform of a rent-a-car girl.
JACKIE: Is Glenn here?
SANDRA: Heâs not with you?
MICHELLE enters, concerned.
MICHELLE: Brett? [She looks at JACKIE, disappointed.] Oh, itâs her.
JACKIE: [to MICHELLE] Have you seen him?
MICHELLE: Who?
JACKIE: [angry] Glenn, of course!
MICHELLE: Alright, Iâm not a bloody mind-reader!
JACKIE: The idiot hasnât come home.
MICHELLE: Yeah, he probably couldnât take any more.
JACKIE: Is he here or not?
MICHELLE: No! Is that clear enough?
JACKIE: What about the others? Are they here?
MICHELLE: Why should you care about them now? You never have before.
JACKIE: Because theyâll know where Glenn is!
SANDRA: Iâm sure when Glenn feels like coming home to you he will. In the meantime Iâm not going to go meddling in his life.
JACKIE backs away, exasperated.
JACKIE: I know somethingâs been going on. I know what those three are like.
MICHELLE: Listen to Miss High and Mighty.
JACKIE: It makes me sick, what goes on around here.
MICHELLE: Well, stuff you. If you donât like it, go away.
JACKIE: Donât worry, I will.
MICHELLE: Great, see you around.
JACKIE: The only reason I came back to this place was because I thought I might give Glenn one last chance. Though after yesterday I canât imagine why.
MICHELLE: No?
JACKIE: They treated us like dirt yesterday. I donât know how the rest of you just go on taking it.
MICHELLE: Yeah, well, we all got our different ways of dealing with things. Youâre not as special as you think.
SANDRA: Yes, itâs about time you learned that. You might get on with people better. Youâre dealing with a family here.
JACKIE: Donât worry, Iâm going. This could be the last time you ever see me.
MICHELL...