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A kid's prayer: As i face another day,
Watch over me Lord when i play,
Help me not to cry when i fall.
Instill in me your sweetest love.
Fill my heart with your truth.
As i'll soon ...145 comment(s)
OH! PASTOR: ... Oh! Pastor ... REPENT!!! before its too late!
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Captain von 'Clap' Trapp: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of some ages, good day.
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I was angry, as I sipped my way out of the swamp. I was totally useless, unneeded. Even my own peers didn’t care that I was attempting suicide. Can you imagine? This anger, made me crawl faster though. It made me want to be [...]
[The stage is now cleared. There is nothing on stage except a bench, and three women sitting on it dressed in black sackcloth, clutching their bellies, JOY, OLEH and MEG.]
[In the prison of ashes. A portion of the stage is coated with grinded charcoal to signify ashes. The two SERVANTS enter with HEELAS. His shirt is removed. Already, his white pair of shorts is badly stained. He is covered [...]
[At an open space. TURAH trudges into the stage, wailing.]
TURAH Sorrow on Ujah, o!! The unthinkable has happened! I cry out to the village: sorrow on Ujah, o!!! The unthinkable has happened! Oh Uplords, forgive us! Take this [...]
[Back at the king’s palace. It is obvious that the atmosphere is tense. The setting is still the same as before. AMAN, MEBI and ZUKU with their SERVANTS are seen on stage, all dressed in black sackcloth tied to their [...]
Scene four [Same place. A lady, NKEH, runs into the stage frantically with HEELAS closely after her. She is dressed in the same fashion as the rest of the women, except that there is a red rope tied round her waist. He stops [...]
Scene three [At the same place. NARRATOR comes out with the stage manager.]
STAGE MANAGER Just imagine! You saw a man who was answering the call of nature, and you went closer to find out what he was actually doing. Go back [...]
Scene one [On a wide field. The stage is now covered with long, large banana leaves. There is some commotion off stage and NARRATOR appears. Immediately afterwards, the stage manager comes and drags NARRATOR away, making a [...]
[NOTE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT: Please keep in mind that this large play of mine, the largest so far, is cut into ten 'sweet' bits, the taste depending on how you 'eat' them. This is the very first time I'm exposing this, gals and guys. [...]
NOTE: THIS IS MY VERY FIRST AND LOUSY ATTEMPT AT RADIO PLAY WRITING (I SAY “LOUSY” BECAUSE IT DIDN’T EVEN QUALIFY FOR A PARTICULAR RADIO PLAY WRITING COMPETITION I SUBMITTED IT FOR. IT’S GOOD BECAUSE I HAD THIS ‘TERRIBLE’ FEELING AFTERWARD THAT I WROTE [...]
Another horror that shook the village even more than all the other horrors awaited the people in the morning. The king was discovered hanging in his room! He had taken his own life! It was unheard of! A man take his own life?! [...]
A year after the banishment, a wail the people of Ajilenko never thought they would again hear rent the early morning peace. Different homes echoed that same wail. Remember every son from the age of six downwards had died two years earlier and every [...]
In all these, the change of mood that had come over their king did not lift. The only one capable of bringing happiness to his face was his Omoboja and now he hardly left her side except to attend to village matters and even [...]
