Fog In Baltimore E-Book

kenechukwu obi

• Herausgeber: KenWrites
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Tyra and Jennesa are two sisters who live in Baltimore, in the U.S.A
Tyra is an artist, and she is gay, but does not know how to communicate it to anyone. Jennesa, who is straight, a travel agent, meets and falls in love with Scot, gets pregnant for him. They are on the verge of getting married when Tyra meets Scot for the very first time, and instantly, identifies him, as one of the thieves who robbed and shot her Mom and Dad dead some years back..... And things start to take a new turn right now....

Leseprobe

      FOG IN BALTIMORE

A PLAY

BY KENECHUKWU OBI

CAST

TYRA

JENNESA

SCOT

PROLOGUE

The stage is dark, silent, and the prevailing silence suggests it is a complete empty space, a wrong suggestion after all. Now the stage gets lit and brings to view, the modest living room of the Coopers, in their Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A residence.

And suddenly, a young woman named Tyra, single and thirty years of age, storms into the living room absolutely furious.

TYRA

[Screams] No way….! This is not happening! Not in my lifetime! [Slumps onto a couch]

[Tyra’s sister, Jennesa, single and twenty eight years old, suddenly walks into the living room very much downcast]

JENNESA

Tyra, I’m confused….

TYRA

[Still furious. Springs up from the couch] Confused? [Now hands akimbo] Don’t tell me you’re out of your mind, Jennesa! [Slumps onto the couch]

JENNESA

I’m not.

TYRA

[Springs up again] Thank you very much! You don’t want to tell me you don’t know what to do here!

JENNESA

This is life that is at stake here.

TYRA

That life is worth nothing! Not with the type of man that put it in there! [Slumps on the couch]

JENNESA

I think that is not a good idea.

TYRA

[Springs up from the couch and screams] You sound so disgusting when you talk like that! Get rid of the baby now….! [Slumps on the couch]

[Jennesa suddenly turns her back on Tyra, and begins to walk away]

LIGHTS FADE

SCENE ONE

The stage gets lit once again, and displayed is the living room of the Coopers residence. Everything remains the same in the living room except that this time there is a bold sign standing with inscriptions on it, in such a position that it can be clearly read by the audience. Spotlight falls on the sign and further lights up the inscriptions on it which is: JENNESA AND TYRA LOST THEIR DAD AND MOM A LONG TIME AGO. TYRA WAS FIFTEEN AND JENNESA WAS THIRTEEN, AT THE TIME.

[Tyra, now calm, gently enters the living room, speaking all by herself as she saunters]

TYRA

We used to live in Florida where it happened. Two male thieves, whose age can’t be more than twenty, stopped our car on our way to having a family picnic. They robbed Mom and Dad. Then they shot them.

[Jennesa gently enters the living room, begins to speak, Tyra takes a seat quietly]

JENNESA

What could we have done without uncle Obama? He raised us; made sure we had some education. [Smiles] Uncle Obama…. There is no one like you. [Blows a kiss] We love you…..

LIGHTS FADE

SCENE TWO