(Originally written in short story in the book, "Stay Down, Old Abram," as a chapter history, "Black Girl Walking", 2001; rewritten 6-1-2008 by the same author as a law, three scene play)
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Based on the actual events of the Play
Black Girl 1970
Structure Waling Dialogue
Note: It should be noted, the dialogue for the black girl to the southern dialect of the 1970s, from that date or period and place. It is not to say the game is the dialogue can not be smoothed, it may be, if the character needs to do this, but it seems to me it is better with the setting alone, and the date, which can top or back, but it is suitable ... I think so, although not required, so I leave it up to the discretion and discussion about the theater, and its actors, and their skills in this area. That is, if the dialect is counterproductive for the Playhouse, or too difficult, as a place to English, it is not difficult, changing a few letters in the words in the dialogue.
The Plot
The plot and the plot is smooth and easy, and can be enhanced if need be, the motivation, that is, he wants directions, and he goes to a further length than normal, but what the character has to show how far will he go, This can be done by his dramatic reactions. As you can see, as you read, it is primarily the development of the action we are concerned, more so than the development of Character.
Act One
(an act)
Scene One
On the street, in the inner city, Huntsville, Alabama, 1970,
11:30 AM.
One side of the road is empty, from the stage, it is easy, and so everything is very visible in this scene, perhaps a beam of light a spot on the left side of the road help. The right side has a few bars with him, and stores, let him in shadow, as if mysterious. There are a few points here and there, that the symbolism of the South, the ultimate seat last if not the voice of the people, saying, white and black, have yet to a complete understanding or agreement on equality, equal rights and of freedom in all, here in Alabama, the Midwest 1969.
A knows the boy, a Private First Class in the Army, stationed in Redstone Arsenal, in the vicinity of training courses, he just come from boot camp at Fort Bragg, although this Background information is insignificant for the scene, it could be used to clarify for the curious in the audience, a narrator would like to mention, or have it in a handout. A black girl walking to the corner, it would seem she intends to stop in red light, wait and clubs. The white soldier, stands behind her, looking with his green dress in his hands, his Army dress greens, he himself is dressed in civilian clothes, and looking for a cleaner, his uniform pressed. He is a boy Midwest, 22-yeaars old. The girl is black and beautiful, perhaps eighteen to twenty, neatly dressed with a white blouse, colored light and rock, a mythical look appears on her face when she finds a white boy after her, say something, but you can not here what it says, makes her face was afraid for the moment they are the only ones on the road, it turns his head slightly to see him, the length between them has dwindled to two yards, or about Six-feet.
He is symbolic, it is the young generation is not aware of the conservative Midwest, it could be someone the idea of a dismembered America obviously in the fact the United States had just routed out of bed, or from her wardrobe , For equal rights in America, black and white points. The soldier boy is dressed in clean, his hair is short semi-finals, nicely combed. You are now at another, not in motion, a cloth shop in front of them, on their left side, you can walk the one hand and come from the other-like a horseshoe. In the middle are dresses.
White Midwestern Boy
Wait! Please wait! I mean, good morning, please wait!
(they look each other in the black girl does not answer: The White Midwest of the boys, although there is still stares, to watch the black girls, in addition to the clothing store)
Is there something wrong ... I mean, all I want is directions?
Black Girl Walking
No. Cannot you see it-all arent no black people in conversation with white boys, look on the other side of the street, you see someone there on foot black? You have to be from the north, Leave Me Alone White Boy, before you all hung me, and you git beat of your own kind!
The boy takes a cigarette from the pack in his shirt pocket, he has a light jacket in, he seems to have come for such a need, he is helpless, or so it seems, and the weather is cool.
So (says the black Girls) you will no longer follow me, right?
White Midwestern Boy
(with the cigarette from his mouth)
What, no direction of the drycleaners?
Black Girl Walking
No! A 'I can not talk YOW: ask someone else. I get goin killed because of Yaw-all, my uncle got hung six weeks to go now, "I'm not lying. If you are not a pest!
(After a brief moment it looks like no other Word to say, staring at the clothing store, rushes into the turnaround pretending not to the clothing business, then:)
Scene Two
Same situation as in a scene, but has changed in the turnaround of the cloth store, which towels from windows show glass windows. The time has not changed significantly, so that no light must be changed to graten part of the scene, although you may not see the road, perhaps by the reflection of the glass. The black girls and boys, knows not yet exchanged names, so that they only know how each other, the black girls on foot, and the Midwest of the white (or her, northern) boy from the north, it should within derive their faces and tone, especially when the black girl buries her face a little in the glass, so to do to the towels if they really tried to prevent the intruder.
Black Girl Walking
Uncle Josh he is right ... People like you, from the North do not understand, is a thing about people here, how to ask questions just to me in difficulty, and dhen all gone, just like dat, and you do not know, the people to her, and they believe goin to have to go to the law and the next thing is you Hung, and all laws of the world will not bring you back, "and then the white people from the north sorry, but unfortunately not do to Uncle Josh back. When white people see me talking to you goin to difficulties ... You jus cannot see it until it happens, then its too late ...
White Midwestern Boy
Tell me about your uncle?
Black Girl Walking
(fast)
You is crazy. They hung him outside the city, on a farm pasture, from an old tree, so old crows around to see him die, thats all it was an old tree and crows, and if we goin 'to get it, ordnungsgemae to bury him as the old man from the farm he jus ya watch how you will rob his garden. Thats it, there is no more, no court, not everything, jus a hanging ... one of many!
(they can from a long sigh, slowly, with a kind of desperation attached to it, when the boy drops a cigarette on the floor, puts it with his shoe)
She is not even look at the boy, standing four or five meters of her, they will look in the glass, their fingers against the glass, her face leans on it for a moment, then pulls them back.
Black Girl Walking
I think it could be a drycleaners back a long way to go there, the other Way, where you come from, the block ...
(pointing to her right side, that would be his left when he was on foot to the pavement try, her face half hidden)
It now seems to be on the white boys, that things are not as he thought, more seriously, he looks towards the street, a few cars have passed, he noticed no one has looked at him out of the car, nor the black girl is blind to the street, he wants to his hand on them, and starts to dare not even shield their eyes, what form someone could see if this boy does something stupid.
White Midwestern Boy
Yes. Go on. I'm sorry I caused so much grief, I think I let it go too far, I have just went to my way ... and what you have said about your uncle, I believe, because it dead, hanged in Alabama, whatever reason, it is difficult for me to believe, but I think you ... no cars, no one search, do your best!
Scene Three
The Exit
Much like a scene in appearance; you see the boys are looking down the street, and the black girls to walk across the street, where they originally met. The girl holds back to the boys, they are a distance, they begin to turn her head around, but believes, and in this moment, it automatically switched to his back to her, if she decides to turn to the competition ... and the curtain comes down.
Curtain
Notes: The author was stationed at Redstone Arsenal in February and March 1970 the same position of the United States Space Center Program.
The Saturn V, used by the Apollo program manned moon missions, was developed by the Redstone Arsenal. Huntsville continues to play an important role in the United States Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. It is estimated that 1 in 13 of Huntsville population are employed in some technical fields work.
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