Take One

Role: Paul( Li Fung Tun) Tina (Paul’s girlfriend)( Cheung Po Fa)

Mum(Hui Wai Kan)

Dad(Siu Yun Kiu) Cora (Choi Lai Man)

Serena (Tsang Lok Kei)

Iris (Wong Pui Fan) Paul's friend

Yuyi (Chan Oi Yi) friends

Theme: suicide is not the way to tackle problems

Scene 1 Place: Paul’s home

Role: Paul, his parents

Props: sofa, rubbish(newspaper, clothes), bottles, books, telephone

Sound effect: Serena light:Vicky

(Dad is listening to the radio for horse racing e)

Dad: Go!! Go!! Go!!! Beat it !!

Mum: (sing) laughing, laughing, full of touching, my heart is filled with love

Dad : (shout at Mum) Do you do nothing all day!? You didn’t cook again, look! Ccan’t you see how dirty the place is! I can’t see why you can stand it and never try to clean it them up.

Mum: All you know is drinking. Can you blame me!?

Dad : Huh, you are trying to fight back, I drink when I like to, it’s none of your

business.

Mum: Last week, when you were drunk, who helped you tidy up all the things, that you had vomited on the floor and went crazy. Who gave you hot tea and who helped you change the clothes!?

Dad: huh, I didn’t ask for your help, and you always take out the old things to blame!

(Mum and dad are still arguing)

Kelvin: hey, Paul, this is Kelvin, there will be a Picnic day next month, it’s organized

by the PTA, Will would you and your parents join it ?

Paul : Picnic? It sounds great……….(go out from the bedroom)

(Mum and Dad are fighting)

Paul:……family…HUH, I haven’t got a family

Kelvin: What? What’s wrong with your parents?

Dad: Stop arguing, have you got any money?

Mum: Money!! I won’t give you any

Dad: let’s give me some (try to get it from mum)

Mum : NO! NO!

Paul: Stop! Shut up! Huh, My parents!? (hang up the phone and left home)

Scene 2

Role : Yuyi, Iris, Serena, Cora, Tina, Paul, waiter

Place: Bar

Props: 6 chairs, pills(candy), cigarettes, cups,

Sound effect: Isabel Light: VIcky

(Yuyi and Serena are playing some games)

(waiter comes)

Wwaiter: hey, girls, what do you want today?

Iris: Let’s give us what we hadve yesterday and don’t border anymore!

Waiter: ok

(Wwaiter leaves and takes some drinks)

Iris: Hey, Cora, how’s your new handsome guy?

Cora: Huh, not to mention, he is a past tense for me!

Iris: O, what a pity, ..hey….let’s introduce him to me…he he

Cora: YOU girl!

Iris: Hey, what’s wrong. I want some handsome guys! Haha…I do admire Tina, you

know, his new boyfriend is cool…

Tina: Of course, he is mine!! Haha

4 girls: oooOooO!!

Yuyi: hey, your watch is nice, it’s from your new boyfriend?

Tina: No, it’s from my dad, last week, he won some money from the horse racinge

Iris: Dad? Haha, I haven’t seenaw him for more than 3 months

Yuyi+Serena : Nonsense, I haven’t talked with him since I was 15

Cora: not to mention such sad things, you see my new dress, I brought it at Mongkok,

I found a nice boutique, The the things there are cheap

Serena: hey, girls, wait a minute, I got some CU here, let’s get high!! Hahahah

(distribute the pills)

(become unconscious and laugh)

(Paul comes)

4 girls :hey, Paul, we are waiting for you!! Hahaha

Tina : you are so late

4 girls: you are late..um….I miss you so

(Paul is depressed)

Cora: Paul, these are for you

Paul: Thanks

Paul: Tina, my parents…again…

Tina: Hey, how much is the dress you said…haaa

Paul: Tina..

Tina: (talking with the girls) that’s nice, let’s bring us there

Paul: Tina! Have you u listened to me?

Tina: (angry)Hey, what? You can’t see that I’m talking with my friends?

What’s wrong with you Paul!!

(Tina put her hand on Paul’s head and Paul takes away her hand)

Serena: O, Tina, your man is gone

Tina: never mind, forget him

Scene 3

Place: in the dark

Role: Paul

Props: none

Light: Vicky sound effect: Serena

(Paul walks alone in the dark and talks to himself)

Paul: Nno one cares about me. H, happiness goes away with ages

Paul: Paul, you are a big man, You you are now upset by your them???

It’s too silly, even your friends are going to laugh at you, ha

Paul: but I’m sad , It it’s real, I’m really depressed. Everyone needs love, so do I

(take out the family picture)

Paul: Tthe old days were happy Is , is it really so difficult to get love?

Paul: Love!??..haha…what is love actually, I never taste it

Paul: Why ! why …it’s so unfair, even the dog next door got its master’s love. But

Why? Why do you give birth to me? , Wwhy you let me live on earth without caring about me. I hate you, I hate all of you, I hate you , Mum and Dad, I hate myself

He cut his pulse)

~ (evil comes and takes Paul’s corpse away)

# the projector shows the family picture again with blood drops on it

Scene 4

Place : hospital

Role : Paul, Mum and Dad

Props: tables, white clothes

Light: Vicky sound effect: Serena

(someone pretends to be Paul and is lying on the bed, with white cloth on)

(Paul is observing the scene with the evil)

(Mum and Dad can’t see them)

Mum: (holding the dead body of Paul, crying)

Paul, you leave without saying goodbye to mammy!! Paul, wake up, it’s time to

school Paul, wake up. I’ve ironed the school uniform for you!…wake up Paul….

WAKE UP!!

Dad : Mum……he is dead…

Mum: (head down then look at Dad) It’s you! You kill my son, give me back Paul,

give me back my little son! Give me back my son,………!!!

Dad: Paul, you leave us, you go away without thinking about us. You just leave all the

pain and sorrow to us

Evil: hey, Paul, you should be happy, You you are dead now. It’s your wishes, why you

Paul: you see? They care about me….I hurt them

Evil: but, it’s your own choice, you should be happy now as your wish comes true

Paul: No!! I regret, if I were alive didn’t die, I still have a chance to get a happy family

But……now……