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©2008 Mike
Competillo
(Scene happens just
outside a school classroom door. If there is an easy way to show a classroom
separate from the hallway, this can be shown. Otherwise, the first few voices
should be said offstage.)
(Greg enters then
Veronica, then Martha Jones)
WHOLE CLASS: ...one
nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Tony: Excuse me Mrs. Jones, what does indivin-sible
mean?
MRS. JONES: Indivisible
means not able to be broken apart or separated or divided.
GREG: Mrs. Jones, may I please step just outside the
classroom door to put up a notice on the student activities
board?
MRS. JONES: Make it fast, class is about to begin.
(GREG LEAVES
CLASSROOM, APPEARING ONSTAGE)
VERONICA: Hi Greg, what’s up?
GREG: (shyly) Oh, hi, Veronica, just puttin’ up a
new notice on the board.
VERONICA: What’s it about? Huh? (Pause)
An after-school
Bible study? You can’t put that sort of thing up there?
GREG: Why not?
VERONICA: It’s not right! You’re kind of pushing your
views and opinions onto other people.
GREG: You mean my lifestyle?
VERONICA: Yeah, why
it just isn’t...
GREG: Veronica, what
about this one here?
VERONICA: The Harry
Potter Club?
GREG: Yeah! Wouldn’t you
call that a lifestyle?
VERONICA: Yeah but
that’s not....
GREG: What about this
one? Gay issues and ideas?
VERONICA: Well, I
don’t care about that...
GREG: Aren’t they
telling about their lifestyle?
VERONICA: Well, I
guess they are.
GREG: Veronica, today
we’re gonna talk about George Washington in our bible study. Did you know he
once said, “Don’t let anyone call himself a true American Patriarch if he tries
to separate religion from politics.”?
VERONICA: Really? I
didn’t know that.
GREG: It’s the truth.
(From classroom in
background)
Poncho: But why are we
supposed to say, “One nation under God...” in school?
VERONICA: Well,
isn’t the Bible just a bunch of old ideas and stuff that doesn’t really matter
anymore to people of this day and age?
GREG: Veronica, did you
know that it says in the bible that anyone who believes in Jesus and does what
He says will have everlasting life?
VERONICA: Really?
GREG: And in Proverbs it
says you can have the understanding of God.
VERONICA: Wow!
GREG: Now what about
freedom of the press, Veronica? Isn’t that a right we all believe in? (Pause)
So you see, my poster has just as much right to be there as the others.
You know Veronica; there
are many people out there who really want to take away our freedoms.
VERONICA: Kind of
like the Christmas tree not being allowed on the town property?
GREG: Exactly! And the
Christmas tree is really just a pagan symbol. It really has nothing to do with
Jesus.
VERONICA: Where does
your bible study meet?
GREG: In room 301 right
after school.
MRS. JONES: (enters) What’s going on out here? And what’s this? (Pause) Bible Study? (Tears it off the board and crumples it) Get back in class.
GREG: Yes Mrs. Jones.
(Exits)
VERONICA: Hello Mrs.
Jones.
MRS. JONES: Hi
Veronica. You need to run along now to your own classroom.
VERONICA: I’m on my
way. (Stops) You know Mrs.
Jones... I think our nation is falling apart
bit by bit.
MRS. JONES: Now why
would you say that, Veronica?
VERONICA: “
(Mrs. Jones turns
toward the audience momentarily then (exits)
THE END