Moss Park and Tough! by George F. Walker

Author:George F. Walker [Walker, George F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama, George F. Walker, Comedy, Youth Issues
ISBN: 9780889229556
Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC
Published: 2015-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

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MOSS PARK

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Moss Park was first produced at Theatre Passe Muraille, Mainspace, in Toronto from November 5 to 16, 2013, with the following cast and crew:

TINA: Haley McGee

BOBBY: Graeme McComb

Directed by Patrick McDonald

Set and lighting by Martin Conboy

Sound by Julie McCann

Costume coordination by Heather Landon

CHARACTERS

TINA

BOBBY

They are both age twenty-one.

SETTING

A small inner-city park. A park bench.

TINA and BOBBY walk on.

BOBBY:  Only thing he says is, “You have to answer yes to all these questions or you don’t get the job. Do you have a licence? Do you have a safe driving record? Can you drive a standard shift? Can you sew?”

TINA:  Can you what?

BOBBY:  Sew. Because when I’m not delivering the carpets I’m supposed to be sewing binding around all these leftover pieces to make little mats. So yeah, I tell him I can sew.

TINA:  You lie.

BOBBY:  Right. Because what’s one more lie?

TINA:  You lied about something else?

BOBBY:  Yeah. About the standard shift. Man, I was sure that was going to be the deal breaker.

TINA:  Oh. But not the sewing.

BOBBY:  Before I even got to the sewing, it was the stick shift I had to worry about. I mean, how was I gonna fake that, right? I’m pretty good at faking things but –

TINA:  What? No, you’re not.

BOBBY:  I faked my way all the way through high school, Tina.

TINA:  Is that what you think?

BOBBY:  It’s the truth.

TINA:  No, it’s bullshit. You think you tricked those teachers or something? Most of them passed you outta pity.

BOBBY:  Pity? Whatya talking about?

TINA:  They felt sorry for you, Bobby.

BOBBY:  Why?

TINA:  For the same reason a lot of people do.

BOBBY:  Yeah, and what’s that?

TINA:  I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure that out. Anyway it was pity and nothing else that got you through school.

BOBBY:  That’s your opinion.

TINA:  That’s everyone’s opinion.

BOBBY:  Everyone’s? Come on. Okay. My dad’s for sure but he’s just –

TINA:  What happened?

BOBBY:  When?

TINA:  When you tried to drive the store’s car.

BOBBY:  It wasn’t a car. You can’t deliver carpets in a freakin’ car. It was a shitty old VW van, which I taught myself how to drive in an hour in the parking lot.

TINA:  Really?

BOBBY:  Well good enough to get the thing moving and start my deliveries. And I had like twelve of them, right? So that’s twelve times carrying these monster freakin’ carpets up three, four sometimes five flights of stairs because none of the buildings around here have elevators for some reason.

TINA:  Well most of them are public housing. And they didn’t put fancy things like elevators in them.

BOBBY:  Right. So what are people in public housing doing buying carpets anyway?

TINA:  Why shouldn’t they have carpets?

BOBBY:  I’m not saying they shouldn’t have them. I’m saying why do they need them.

TINA:  That store’s merchandise is cheap shit. They shouldn’t even have cheap, shitty carpets on their floors? Is that what you’re saying? Only people who live in buildings with elevators should have carpets, so you wouldn’t have to carry them up the stairs . . . I’m probably going to wind up in public housing.

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