Big Brother School

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BIG BROTHER SCHOOL

Single Act in 10 scenes by Ignazio Salvatore Basile

 

Characters and Interpreters

Giorgio Loi                                                teacher in a High School

Bruna DeLussu                                          her colleague

Mariano Nugnes                                        another teacher

Aldo Scalìa                                                 teacher and trade unionist

Mario Giannetti                                         TV official

Renzo Compagnangelo                              television director

Francesco                                                   a zealous janitor

Two Carabinieri

One High School’s Class

 

 

The plot

The Big Brother arrives one morning in a local  school. The Young students are enthusiastic: fame and money finally arrive for them. But someone wants to teach kids that easy money often hides deception. In fact, the people in charge of television are barkers looking for plucking chickens. Their evil plan is  doomed to failure thanks to the intuition of an old suspicious teacher and some guys who have learned that following the dreams  without asking questions is not always the best choice. The comedy, in ten scenes, was successfully performed in Decimomannu (where it was born) and participated to the National Theater Review for the Grosseto School, in Tuscany. Big Brother School, or "Big Brother at School" is already present in Amazon First Volume that the author has published also  in Paperback for the "All Comedies" series , planned in twelve  different volumes in English, Italian, French, Spanish and Sardinian Language.

 

First Scene

(A normal sixteen’s students  classroom of a High Technical School. When the curtain opens Prof. Loi is already in class and checks the register. In the background a closet and a blackboard. On the wall an inscription in block letters " I.T.S. "E. Mattei- Decimomannu" )

 

Prof. Loi (asking for attention)

         - But the appeal hasn't been made?

First Student (without almost stopping to chat with his classmate)

         - In fact, no one's missing today...

Prof. Loi (indicating a free school desk)

         - What about those  empty chairs?

Second Student

         - It's the usual bench of the two comrades who retired...

Prof. Loi (in annoyed tone)

         - Ah! Haven't they  picked it up yet?

Third Student (sarcastically)

         - Hey, teacher! Are you kidding? They have surely been very busy !!!

Prof. Loi (in a resigned tone)

         - Oh, yeah! Too much an effort to move it up... Whatever! Who has to justify the absences and delays?

Fourth Student

         - I've forgotten my booklet...

Fifth Student

         - I lost it instead…

 

Sixth student

         - I haven't been given the booklet  yet...

Seventh student

         - Wait, teacher! I'm filling it out!

Eighth student (approaching professorship)

         - Can I see the register, Professor? I don't remember my absences anymore!

Prof (between annoyed and resigned, handing over the class register)

         - Every day I have to waste a quarter of an hour with this bureaucracy! But why don't you make these blessed justifications at home?