Unit 28: Storytelling 1st DRAFT – BABBLE VERSION – 1 FEB 16

Blind Victory

*Ruth and Cagla start off with playing playground games, we can see them running around, laughing, screaming etc*.

Ruth: Pass it over here”.

Cagla: No it’s mine”.

Ruth: We’re playing a game, give it, give it”.

*Cagla tosses the ball at Ruth and they continue playing their game centre stage*.

*They both pretend to check their watch/alarm and it makes a noise, they move their heads in the same motion*.

“Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock”.

*They return home skipping, holding hands with big smiles on their faces*.

*They start to eat dinner in front of the television. A news report sound effect comes on in the back ground*.

*They stop what they are doing and stand to their feet centre stage*.

"There has yet been another one hundred people found dead from the accidental bombing that happened in Syria, it was unintentionally dispatched into the back of a factory, some people have survived the awful incident but have been left seriously injured. Resulting into some of them loosing legs, arms and even eyesight. Our thoughts go out to the victims and the families victims...."

*They walk away from each other and walk back upstage, they run around and begin to skip towards each other*

*BANG!*

*Ruth and Cagla fall to the ground after the bombing, they lay on the ground for a few moments before trying to sit up and feeling their face*.

Ruth: I can't see"

Cagla: I can't see"

Ruth and Cagla: God help me, I can't see!"

Ruth: Mum!"

Cagla: Mum!"

Ruth: I can't feel anything"

Cagla: Why are we cursed".

*After a few attempts, they stand on their feet unable to see with their knees slightly bent looking out towards the audience*.

*They try to walk forward but they fall to the ground, after a few moments of lying on the ground they stand to their feet and we see them slowly starting to pack a bag*

Ruth: It's time to leave, I can't stay here anymore. My eyes are gone and so will my life very soon if I don't run".

*We see Cagla exiting the stage first and making her way upstage facing the audience*.

Cagla: It's a long journey but she must leave, she's scared for her and her families life. She decides to take a risk and board a boat which is set out to go to Turkey across the Mediterranean sea, but stops at Greece first to let off some passengers. It's dangerous because there are too many people on the boat, but she has no other option".

*Ruth is seen boarding a boat and Cagla joins her. They spend a few moments sitting down before standing to their feet. Cagla opens a passage way for Ruth".

Cagla: Turkiye'ye hosgeldiniz".

Ruth: This is a new life for me"