LOCUST
Characters
Farmer
Farmer's wife
Group 1
Group 2
Voice
Gigo
Nut 1
Nut 2
Nutty 1
Nutty 2
Director
News reader
Prime minister
Visitor
( The villager is seen standing there swinging a sli ngshot with a mine, just as his wife arrives with rice.)
Farmer: I used to watch you from the front. I see a red gown flying over the edge and my hunger is a aroused. bring it, bring it quickly, can I bring it?
Wife: I made buttered bread with lye and reddish salad. did you like it?
Farmer: wow, wow, that's where my spear went ...bring it, take it. (he opens the rise before eating the farmer old Thor first spoon in front of the women's face.)
Wife: now be ashamed, you have become the father of child.
Farmer: that's why your master died a little, that's why the burden on you was reduce little. take a good mouth, I'll eat.
Wife : now start eating.
Farmer: no this is the sturboneous of the farmer.
If you take it yes, it is not possible.
Wife: oh, you are so heavy! bring it. (Eats. then
he feels Patel's face with that spoon too. then they both eat) nature has bestowed a heavy seal on the year of on.
Farmer: yes, yes. then we will pay the money lender's interest.
Wife: and from above, even in the house, the whole grain of the bull is scattered on the floor.
Farmer: yes tha waves are heavy, the waves are heavy. the love of a child has dragged me a lot. this year, I have now set on the iron food and cross river with ease.
Wife: yes, and now let's take gigi's hand in marriage. this will stop your quarrels from happening.
Farmer: why are you tried, patlani? There is still a lot to be done in life!
Wife: if you do, you will be in trouble! if I make you join hands in this work, both father and son will be shaken, and the sky will fall in place. that field on parchham has now been filled, so do you work like a Tiwari at night? you are a little bit qustions.
Farmer: yes yes but the families of these...
Wife: may all your trouble be as good as yours. do not be a fool to yourself. May all your troubles be over. let me tell you today.
Farmer: oh yes! wow! it was a lot of a fun.(both drink a group of young man and women come out singing on the side walk.)
Group: the farmer is angry, angry, angry.
The day is full of kindness,
On brother's sister in law is coming,
On the sister of the goas Panchal
There, the in lows are in a state of chaos
The flickering lamps are the talisman of
the womb....
Wife: How the whole village went med and. into a frenzy! the bull of one set down, defeated . The bull turned its back as if
it were Indra!
Farmer: yes, yes, it's like someone is fighting and
arguing. I don't even remember you. having done a single thing in the year of the lord .
Wife : Oh, the glory of the one above! let me go with you, and you too .take, hold this treasure in your hand.
Farmer: otherwise, even this gossip, even if it is a favourite song, is held, and the hand, and even this birds are eating it. Did Nanak Sahib say a song?
Ram's sperrow is ram's farm
Eat until you're full, you grumpy one.
Wife: Whatever you wish, I am going.
(Slowly the evening hours descend. The sound of the farmer come from afar. Somewhere a hymn is heard. Somewhere the sound of a hours walking. The farmer gets off the platform, he takes off his hat, gets water from the bucket, washes his face and lies down comfortably slowly the nightfalls. suddenly the sounds of the drums in plate start to sound. the sound gradually gets louder. the sound of singing in the group.)
Group 1: the border guards played the drums loudly,
The plate is titled diagonally,
There is a cry, the radio is on,
Work up, came jasa,
The Jasa has come. to jasa has come,
Run, run, run, run.
Group 2: no, no, no, no, no, no, jasa,
This is the wrong side of the world,
No goatee, no bread,
No, gun in hend, house
This is some kind of difference, Something has differently gone wrong, hot torches appear on the। seams.
Group 1: someone came out with torches,
No daggar no spear,
Someone with a stick in their hand,
Someone take a sword and share it.
( The farmer Also lights the lantern first. he raises it. A voice as if someone is asking loudly from the neighbouring field.)
Voice: Hey vihabhai, where did I come from?
Farmer: somehow, who was crying, run away. the drums and trumpets where beating, And it was like a funeral pyre.
Voice: say something softly.
Farmer: and tha village seems to be pushed toward the border.
Voice: look even in the fields on the border of the this half way border, the heat has started to spared.
Farmer: yes, I will light this bundle. ( he lights the bundle.)
Group 1: the swarms of locust come and went,
Clouds of black locusts swarm,
Whispering, hissing,
Swarms of black locusts.
Group 2: the locust have come, the locust have come , go ahead, go ahead.
The god of time has ground wings,
Go ahead, go ahead.
(The farmer's wife also arrives in the field painting she too sets the sheaves alight.)
Wife: I am sitting here gigi's father if I sit here for a moment then year is better. or who knows where these came. from? This is the name of the hardness of the luck!
Farmer: now, my heart is my heart. we will do it together. for now you should keep steering this pot. Will this fire go out while you do this?
Wife: the sky has burst, and I am turning my back on a cloud.
Farmer: I bow down to you with my hand clasped together. Be patient,
(Giga's arrival.)
Wife: why giga? what news did you bring?
Gigo: mother these locusts have devastated our village, living not a single grain of wheat behind.
Wife: oh my God. can I sit down?
Farmer: you are like this, my child. It will be a while. will you be able to take about your past? so be patient.
Wife: now what will you do? I will die and die!
Farmer: let us speak of this time is the time of. the moon! it is is if there where a hand on its side, a book of accounts.
Gigo: hey father isn't that locust? I saw it the first time!
Farmer : every 8 to 10 year, its clawe grow bake. only a few years later, the clawe grow back and its clawe grow back once a day.
Wife: we believe that now eat has been avoided. now it is not only not to be born, but we knows from where it will come to us!
Group 1: some says Central Asia,
someone says Africa,
some says from Nicobar,
someone says America.
Group 2 : someone may say that it is not his clan, there is no origin;
taking the from of a whirelwind
dusty dust.
Group 1 : he doesn't like the population,
he does not like happiness;
this is the communication of the devil, nameless grief
Group 2 : the swarms of locusts came and went, small of locusts bursting forth,
black cloud, dark Times,
swarms of black locusts.
Group 1 : the fields where eaten and the threshing flowers where laid bear,
the garden is full, the fance is broken, pierced by thorns, pierced by thorns,
the lives of many where ruined.
(Suddenly, there are muffled cries of cries of ararat shrill rasping sound.)
Nut 1 : now look at this, the drama is over.
Nutty 1: so soon dead play must be over so soon?
it only lasted 15 minutes!
Nut 1 : the author has written and send this much.
Nutty 1: I will have to send another one now.
Nut 2 : the play is just that. the author met me. he used to say that my play is complete.
Nutty 1: so what's happening is that nothing will be understood.
Nut 1: And is there any play about locusts in this
day and age?
Nutty 2: What will the people of our city. understand about this locust feed?
Nutty 1: People will say, where did this folklore
Come from?
Nut 1: Is this a play or a diary?
Nutty 1: And then again, there must be some. purpose or lesson, right?
Nutty 2: What else did she say? If we give advice,
won't the critic be disappointed?
Nut 1: Yes, yes, they would say that the play was
not artistic.
Nut 2: It's over.
Nutty 1: But hey? You tell me is there any. purpose to this?
Nut 2: Come on, talk to me. Sita has been
Kidnapped, right? We've been rehearsing for so long and you don't
understand anything?
Nutty 1: No I don't understand anything. It seems
very straightforward and simple. But
You understand, right?
Nut 2 : little by little.
Nutty 1: So tell me, what's the point in that?
Nut 2: (Sighing) To be honest, I feel the same way as you. I don't understand anything either.
Nutty 2: What is there to understand in a play,
really?
Nutty 1: Why? Let's explain the play, shall we?
Nutty 2: If you understand, what is the point of. the play? I mean, what is art?
Nutty 2: Yes, that's correct!
Nutty 1: But to just go and play a role without
understanding it? I don't enjoy it at all. I
don't get involved at all. It's like I'm not
evan in the role.
Nutty 2: Don't act up, you idiot. Just be mindful of
the audience.
Nut 1: The audience is only interested in such. things.
Nut 2: don't even mention the he word "samifamj" a few open conversations,
a few anecdotes, a few non vegetarian jokes, a few teasing and ambiguous dialogue.
Nutty 2: That's just our play.
Nutty 1: But that's not the case in this play.
Nut 1: yes, that's true. this won't work.
Nut 2: let's call that director.
Nutty 2: how does he even know about joints?
Nutty 1: you are so out spoken, Ali! I’m telling you that the audience...
Nutty 2: the audience is like this. the more we abuse them, the closer they come to us, the more than become ours.
Nut 1: Alas, but now this whole theme is getting off topic!
Nutty 1: either way, we'll bore the audience.
Nut 2: call that director!
Nut 1/ Nut 2/Nutty 1: yes, yes, call.
(Actress 1 goes inside and brings out the director.)
Director: tell me, what did you do, children?
Nut 1: is this drama supposed to in here?
Director: yes, that's the idea.
Nutty 1: but if we do that we won't understand anything.
Director: why, what is there that you don't understand?
Nut 2: we don't understand anything about this Locust feed .
Director: Understand that this Locust is a symbol.
Nutty 1: but who will understand that?
Nutty 2: the symbol should be a little clearer,
right ?
Nut 1 : if it is clear, what is the symbol for?
Nutty 2 : clearly, like that woman from Maharashtra....
Nut 2: neither open nor covered.
Nut 1: whereas this is like the woman of Gujarat completely closed.
Nutty 1: and those critics will say that the theme is out of date. the symbolism is not fully clear. it does not create convention.
Director: so what should we do?
Nut 2: do that. change the symbol or add an extra one. for example, bring in the plague bug, pneumonic.
Nutty 2: yes, yes, it's fresh and current. those who are interested in contemporary social issue will also like it.
Nut 1: otherwise do this bring up the subject of the virus.
Nutty 1: could something riotous come out of this,? people get enlightenment, while we get drama!
Nutty 2: so, just say, "a bread is a bread, and a broom is a broom."
Nut 1: but if we do this, want is be a diversion?
Nutty 2: whether the women is from home or outside, the subject remains the same. only the character changes!
Nutty 1: very blunt! be mindful of the audience.
Nutty 2: it's not okay to play a game and break the five letter word in bag.
Nut 2: it's not possible to go get buttermilk and hide it from the maid.
Nut 1: the doctor can't go home and hide his things.
Nutty 2: it's not okay to be a Gujarati women on your honeymoon.
Director: that's it, that's it. now think ahead. what should we do with the play?
Nut 1: let's bring the plague first.
Director: let's bring it (to group 1) come on, you start.
Group 1: this is the village of Surat
gold's of face village
The lastest news has happened
The twelve headed eagle spoke.
That's it, that's the old one,
They dug up a hill and took out a ret.
If you weith the weith of the Sun;
The 12 year old boy said.
There will be floods, the dam will break
The village will be destroyed,
Run, brother, run, run, brother, run,
Newsreader: there has been stampede in the entire City. people have started pouring into the station and bus stand. there are reports that some people have even rented special vehicles for 5000 rupees people have started migrating indiscriminately instruction being given by the minister that.....
(Voice of the minister) therefore, it is requested to the public that there is no breach anywhere in the embankment on the river. this is just a rumor. it is a public request not to leave one's please or house
Group 1: the village does not listen,
don't listen to the village Wells,
all deep ears, just keep your eyes open.
Director: but wait, this doesn't fit at all. this is a far cry from out original symbol.
Nut 2: that's good, something different should happen. critics will say that director has made a beautiful use of bertolt brecht's style here. the play wright has presented his point clearly, yet without being presentations so late it happen.
Director: no, no, but completely headless...
Nut 1 : But I'm saying, bring that plague or the virus.
Group member: what if we design a TV frame?
Nutty 2: yes, it will be a bite of a new experiment.
(Group members should from a TV frame with their bodies. the news reader should read from the middle of the frame.)
News reader: according to the news we just receive 10 people have died due to plague in Surat.
(Scene: someone catches and kills rats. someone kills fleas. someone sprays medicine. someone dose a dismemberment at the bus stand or railway station )
Nut 1: the stampede goes out of frame.
Nut 2: the real action is outside the frame. that's truth!
Nutty 2 : yes, everything else inside the frame is just politics.
Nutty 1: I don't understand.
Director: let me explain, hear's a view from inside the frame.
Prime minister (to visitors): our research team of scientist and doctors has said that the epidemic that has spread in the city may not be plague. it may be some kind of virus related disease people need not worry at all. the government is taking appropriate and urgent steps.
Visitor: but there's stampede in my area. what's the point? so many dead rats are coming out.
Prime minister: those rats had come from Maharashtra during the floods in Surat. they are coming out of the garbage dump. they did not die of plague.
(Outside the frame, a scene of people with tumors growing out of their armpits, in a hospital or at home. a scene of commotion in a house due to the death of one of them. stampede taking place
somewhere.)
Nut 1. Now can't we bring something riotous into this rush?
Director: no no what is the connection between
plague and riots?
Nut-2: why? Otherwise what connection did these locusts have with the plague ? And what connection does it have it riots? they can happen at any time, for any reason ,weather related for unrelated.
Director: but after the play things fall apart.
Nut 1: that's the fun. if it doesn't work, what's the point of the game? If it doesn't work, what's the point of the play?
Nutty 2: yes, yes. the land of joy is a Paradise!
Nut 2: oh ho ho! You've made it so heavy. you're so...
Nutty 2: tell me I'm neked ! I'm neck only in drama there's nothing wrong with that here it's about telling and showing what's real. weather it's a scoundrel in Nagarwad or a dramatist, everyone is the same.
Nutty 1: so bring that one from the temple
mosque!
Director: no I don't want to stop the play!
Nutty 1: why would there be a problem with that?
Director: has the government seen parents? has it seen its sensor sword? it will cut them off?
Nut 2: but should we do it in rehearsal? Is not, we'll remove it if we feel like it.
Director: no, no. it's hard to cut anything out after rehearsals, nobody likes thire role to be cut short. everyone wants to say in the frame.
Minister in the frame: there have been no communal riots anywhere in the city. only one stubbing incidence has taken place due to enmity the townspeople are being asked not to listen to rumours and to continue their business as usual.
(Outside the frame, scenes of riots, beatings, stone pelting, Carnage, private and police shootings.)
Group 1: it's just a little bit climbing. it breaks down when given the chance. opposite each other, side by side, swans of locusts are causing a stir!
Nutty 2: wow, this is a perfect match. how beautifully woven is the locust symbol?
Nut 2: that's the fun of improvisation the actor understands what no one else understands. the actor reveals meanings that the writer didn't intend. the audience sees things that the director didn't understand. nothing is predetermined, set or perfect!
Group 2: some says bacterial,
some says it's viral,
some says it's pneumonia.
someone who is no neurotic!
Group 1: a 12 year old boy speaks.
The old saying goes.
The temple will be destroyed, the mineralist will be destroyed. people will live among themselves. the dam will break, the village will be destroyed. locust will come, plague will break out
Group 2: smallpox, scarlet fever, yellow fever, a strenge fever, or flu will spread, the scum will be spilt, the scum will be spilt,
A thorn will be stuck in the foot.
Group 1: with a new spring in an old wound,
who will dig the deep pit?
in the fear of blood sucking wounds. someone will sprinkle solt on top.
Group 2: is it bacterial? or is it viral? this is a wonderful bicycle!
Group 1: my bicycle is running,
the money is borrowed,
my bicycle is running.
the bicycle runs, the bicycle runs...
(All the actors are engaged in the action and stillness, in a mime performance where they are all riding bicycles.)
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