KS3 PLAY SCRIPT

KEY STAGE 3 PLAY SCRIPT

EXCERPT FROM ‘ALAN AND THE A GRADE’

ALAN’S MUM: ALAN go to your room and do your homework! (ALAN groans) ALAN: I Know, I Know... “Do Your Homework.” Work, Work, Work... All I Ever Do Is Work. (ALAN takes a history book out of his backpack and reads “HENRY VIII had 6 wives and …” (Two hours later) ALAN: He established his own church because the Pope wouldn’t let him divorce. He was very arrogant... ALAN: What an amazing story! (ALAN closes the book and goes to sleep)

SCENE 2: The day of the test (Bell ringing) MR POTTER: All right class, remove all your books from the table and get ready for the test. ALAN: TEST! MR POTTER: Yes, I remind everyone about the test. Sit down and let me hand it out. (ALAN slips on the wet floor) ALAN: Whoa! MR POTTER: ALAN, how about you sit over there next to ARTHUR? ALAN: Do I still have to do the test? What if I hurt my brain? MR POTTER: Don’t exaggerate, you only fell on your back (The class do the test and hand the papers back to MR POTTER) JAY: That test was impossible! Olivia: I know! Name the 6 wives of King Henry VIII? ALAN: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr. ARTHUR: How did you know all of them? ALAN: I’m not sure, I think those memories weren’t damaged when I fell over MR POTTER: Well done ALAN, this is your best test mark ever! ALAN: This can’t be my test; it has an A* on it

© Riyad Salah Key Stage 3 Play Script

VI CONVIENE

Act 1 Scene 1 (The scene is set in a small dark corridor with no windows and dim lighting. The walls are black but there is a translucent glass door at the front, next to which Naghma is standing.)

OFF STAGE WHISPER: (Quietly) Open it. (Silence) OFF STAGE WHISPER: (Quietly but urgently) Open it! (Silence) OFF STAGE WHISPER: (Loudly and urgently) OPEN IT!

(Naghma opens the door to an unbelievable scene. Her street is full of people screaming and running around frantically. The sky is black, with a huge black hole in the centre, which is drawing everything around it. She looks to the side and sees her neighbour screaming as their body is sucked up to the sky and into the black hole.)

NEIGHBOUR: (Screaming) HELP M(The neighbour vanishes into the hole.) NAGHMA: (Anxiously and shocked, shouting at a moderate volume while staring at where the neighbour was standing.) Bilal! Bilal come here! (No response.) NAGHMA: (Standing still but looking around, shouting desperately and more anxiously than earlier) Bilal! Bilal where are you? (There is no response. She starts running around in a frenzy, going up to people shouting her brother’s name, but each one gets sucked into the black hole before they can answer.) NAGHMA: (Screaming) BILAL! BILAL! BILAL WHERE ARE YOU? (No response. Naghma crumples to the ground in agony.) NAGHMA: (Still screaming, also sobbing) BILA(Someone taps on her back) NAGHMA: (She turns around slowly, still sobbing. However, when she sees her mother (whom she refers to as ‘Modar’ (Dari), she has a shocked expression on her face.) Modar?

© Neda Aryan Key Stage 3 Play Script