OPERATION STORM - THE SCRIPT - DRAFT 3# With Sound CHARACTERS 1. Captain Andre Stander, the leader of a local vigilante group 2. Sergeant James Balzac, the quartermaster responsible for intelligence, electronic, weapon and torture systems 3. Private Lynette Bacon, a dedicated team member who carries out orders issued to her to the best of her ability 4. Traffic Officer Wikus Koekemoer, a corrupt local traffic officer who accepts bribes 5. Thabo Mafoka, a corrupt businessman who offers bribes 6. Peter Pan, a young boy dressed in a Peter Pan costume 7. Tinker Bell, a young girl dressed in a Tinker Bell costume SETTING The action takes place in an old neglected municipal theatre that no one uses anymore. TIME In the not too distant future. SCENE ONE LQ 1# HOUSE LIGHTS FADE OUT SQ 1# MUSIC FADES IN youtu.be/rmygQr_hBLM LQ 2# BLUE STAGE LIGHTS FADE IN CAPTAIN ANDRE STANDER, SERGEANT JAMES BALZAC and PRIVATE LYNETTE BACON enter with TRAFFIC OFFICER WIKUS KOEKEMOER and THABO MAFOKA. SQ 2# MUSIC FADES OUT CAPTAIN Lights! SERGEANT On! LQ 3# STAGE LIGHTS ON CAPTAIN, SERGEANT and PRIVATE are all dressed in military clothes. They wear half face masks whenever the video camera is recording. PRIVATE LYNETTE BACON video records all the action. WIKUS KOEKEMOER, in his traffic police uniform, and THABO MAFOKA, in ordinary business clothes, are tied up in a standing position with their hands behind their backs to upright trolley devices. They have bags over their faces and safety ear muffs over their ears. They cannot see or hear anything. They cannot speak either, because red balls are strapped in their mouths. CAPTAIN Camera! PRIVATE Rolling! CAPTAIN Sound! SERGEANT Check! CAPTAIN And action! (He faces the video camera) OK, we get it; the President isnt the only one in charge. The ANC believes in collective responsibility. So that nobody has to get blamed when things get screwed up, so I address this to everyone in government - the whole lot of you - good, bad and ugly. Thats you, Blade. CAPTAIN walks over to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER and takes off the bags and ear muffs. They look distressed. CAPTAIN My name is Captain Andre Stander. I am a member of the New Resistance, a non-racial vigilante network that uses torture and extralegal means of bringing people who think they are above the law to justice. We are members of the New Resistance, an organised crime fighting network in South Africa, which was formed because the South African Government is ineffective in enforcing the law. We operate at local level and target a specific type of activity namely police corruption. We are all citizen volunteers and we are against South Africa’s centralized liberal-bureaucratic nation-state. We are deeply connected to the fundamental issues of morality, the nature of justice, the limits of bureaucratic authority, and the ethical function of legitimate governance. Our sole duty is to... SERGEANT (He sees something on his Google Glass) Captain, there’s someone in the foyer. CAPTAIN Cut. What? SERGEANT There’s someone in the foyer. CAPTAIN Who is it? SERGEANT It looks like two kids. CAPTAIN Hari Krishna! What are they doing here? SERGEANT I don’t know. CAPTAIN I thought you locked the door. SERGEANT I did. CAPTAIN Private? PRIVATE I double checked Captain, the front door and the back door. It was locked. CAPTAIN What are they doing? SERGEANT They are playing. It looks like... they are wearing costumes. CAPTAIN Costumes? SERGEANT The one looks like a fairy and the other one like Robin Hood? CAPTAIN Get them. SERGEANT What about these two? CAPTAIN walks over to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER and covers their faces with the bags. CAPTAIN Private, bring the kids here. PRIVATE Yes, Captain. PRIVATE exits. CAPTAIN Sergeant, go help her. SERGEANT Yes, Captain. SERGEANT exits. CAPTAIN Hari Krishna! This is just what we need, two kids. (He talks over a small microphone) Sergeant, what’s happening? (Pause) What do you mean they are not in the foyer? (Pause) Find them! SERGEANT and PRIVATE enter with PETER PAN and TINKER BELL. PETER PAN Leave us alone! TINKER BELL Eina! You’re hurting me! PETER PAN What are you guys doing here? CAPTAIN What are you doing here? PETER PAN This is our Never Land. This is Tinker Bell and my name is Peter Pan. SERGEANT You look more like Robin Hood. PETER PAN I am Peter Pan, the undisputed leader of the Lost Boys. TINKER BELL I am Tinker Bell. My friends call me Tink. PRIVATE So you’re a fairy? TINKER BELL I am not a fairy! PETER PAN She doesnt like being called a fairy. She would much rather be called birdwoman because of her origins. PRIVATE Sorry. PETER PAN What is the video camera for? Are you making a movie? CAPTAIN Yes. Ja, we’re making a movie. PETER PAN So, you’re the good guys and they are the bad guys? CAPTAIN Yes. PETER PAN Who is Stanislavski? CAPTAIN What? PETER PAN Konstantin Stanislavski. Who was he? CAPTAIN I don’t know? PETER PAN Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian actor and director. CAPTAIN So? PETER PAN He is the grandfather of method acting. CAPTAIN And your point is? PETER PAN And everyone in the movie and theatre industry knows that. SERGEANT Kid, we’re really busy here. I think you two must leave know. PETER PAN We’re going nowhere. This is our Never Land! CAPTAIN How much do you want for your Never Land? PETER PAN It’s not for sale! CAPTAIN We don’t want to buy it? We just want to rent it for an hour. Here’s a hundred rand. PETER PAN takes the money. PETER PAN I know who you guys are? CAPTAIN We’re nobody. PETER PAN You’re from the New Resistance. CAPTAIN No, we’re not. PETER PAN Yes, you are. CAPTAIN No, we’re not. PETER PAN I know you! CAPTAIN I am nobody. PETER PAN You’re Captain Andre Stander. CAPTAIN No, I am not. PETER PAN Yes, you are. CAPTAIN No, I am not. PETER PAN Ive seen some of your video clips on YouTube. CAPTAIN Its not me. PETER PAN My mother loves you! CAPTAIN I don’t know your mother. PETER PAN You’re her hero. CAPTAIN I am no hero. PETER PAN So what did these two scumbags do? PETER PAN walks over to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER. SERGEANT Please kid, don’t touch them. PETER PAN I’m not a kid. My name is Peter Pan? TINKER BELL And I am Tinker Bell. CAPTAIN Sergeant and Private take them and lock them in one of the dressing rooms. SERGEANT Why don’t we just shoot them? They saw our faces. PRIVATE We can’t shoot them. They’re kids. CAPTAIN We’re not going to shoot anybody. PETER PAN Youre damn right you’re not going to shoot us! Come Tink! PETER PAN and TINKER BELL run offstage. CAPTAIN Hari Krishna! Get them. SERGEANT and PRIVATE run after the kids. CAPTAIN Hari flippen Krishna! PETER PAN (Offstage) You’ll never catch us! SERGEANT (Offstage) Come here! PETER PAN (Offstage) You’re hurting me! TINKER BELL (Offstage) Don’t hurt us please! SERGEANT and PRIVATE enter with PETER PAN and TINKER BELL. PETER PAN You can’t do this. TINKER BELL I want my mommy! CAPTAIN Hari Krishna, shut up! Take them to the dressing room. SERGEANT and PRIVATE exit with PETER PAN and TINKER BELL. CAPTAIN (He talks to the two guys on stage) You guys are probably wondering what the heck is going on here. Huh? Don’t worry. We will get to you shortly! SERGEANT and PRIVATE enter. CAPTAIN Okay, are we ready? PRIVATE Yes, Captain. SERGEANT Yes, Captain. CAPTAIN Where were we? CAPTAIN walks over to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER and takes off their bags. PRIVATE “Our sole duty is to...” CAPTAIN Okay. Lights! SERGEANT On! CAPTAIN Camera! PRIVATE Rolling! CAPTAIN Sound! SERGEANT Check! CAPTAIN And action! (He faces the video camera) Our sole duty is to cleanse the country of impure social elements. We will not allow the people of this country to be used as cannon fodder by these criminals whose only concern is profit by whatever means available to them. We hope that our extreme actions will take us towards a better and safer future. President Jacob Zuma and everyone in government, because of your short-sightedness our country has become nearly inedible. That is why the New Resistance will save South Africa. Two days ago we kidnapped Traffic Officer Wikus Koekemoer who is from the Govan Mbeki Traffic Department and Thabo Mafoka, a local businessman. In this photo you can clearly see Thabo Mafoka driving in his car without wearing a seat belt. You will see it now on screen. In the next photo you see Traffic Officer Wikus Koekemoer jumping out of his car pointing to Thabo Mafoka to stop. In the next photo you see Koekemoer leaning with his head in the car talking to Mafoka. Next you see Mafoka giving Koekemoer something. The next photo is an extreme close-up on Koekemoer’s hand and back pocket. You can clearly see the brown leopard banknote with serial number AB9311442E going into his back pocket. You just witnessed a traffic officer accepting a R200 bribe from a local citizen. This is unacceptable. PETER PAN (Offstage) Help! Help! TINKER BELL (Offstage) Help! Help! CAPTAIN Hari Krishna. Cut! (To the Sergeant) Cover their faces. CAPTAIN exits. SERGEANT covers MAFOKA’s and KOEKEMOER’s faces with the bags. SQ 3# SOUND OF PISTOL SHOTS https://youtube/watch?v=3yf2ohLNgVo CAPTAIN enters. PRIVATE Gee, what did you do Captain? CAPTAIN Private, stand down. PRIVATE But Captain you said no one is getting killed. PRIVATE exits. CAPTAIN I said many things and not all of them true. (To the Sergeant) Take off the bags. SERGEANT takes off MAFOKA’s and KOEKEMOER’s bags. CAPTAIN Sergeant, I want you to play that YouTube video clip of Pastor James David Manning I sent you this morning. SERGEANT But Captain, it’s racist. CAPTAIN It’s not racist if a respected black pastor talks about black people like that. SERGEANT But Captain it’s not our mandate to be racist. CAPTAIN Pastor James David Manning is the chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church in New York City. SERGEANT But Captain, it’s not what the New Resistance is all about. CAPTAIN “But Captain” me one more time and I swear on Mother Teresa’s grave I’ll kill you right here in this shit smelling Johannes Stegmann Theatre. CAPTAIN takes out his pistol and points it to SERGEANT. CAPTAIN Now you start video recording these two corrupt bastards and play that YouTube video clip so that they, Zuma and the government can hear how a well-respected black pastor sees things. SERGEANT takes video camera and records. He presses play on his iPhone. PLEASE NOTE that the opinions expressed in the YouTube commentary are solely those of Pastor James David Manning! (TIME: 2.23 - 3.01) https//youtube/watch?v=t0stJkUWUyM#t=143 SQ 4# YOUTUBE VIDEO SOUND CLIP PASTOR JAMES DAVID MANNING The worst thing that could ever happen to South Africa was when they gave it to Nelson Mandela and black folk. That was a great nation. Now I understand Apartheid was wrong. We all know it’s wrong. I’m against it. There should have been some other resolution than turning it over to Nelson Mandela. Disease, Aids and crime is running wild in Johannesburg. They are killing one another over there. They’re dying of sickness. The government is mismanaged. The people who ran the nation are now leaving the nation because black folk don’t know how to run no nation... SERGEANT presses stop on his iPhone. SQ 5# YOUTUBE VIDEO SOUND CLIP ENDS SERGEANT Please Captain, that’s enough. Let’s do what we came here to do. CAPTAIN I just want to get one thing straight, Sergeant, before we carry on. I am not a bloody racist. Okay? SERGEANT Gee, Captain, I didnt say you’re a racist. CAPTAIN I believe... No, no, no, I know for a fact that God is responsible for the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. SERGEANT Yes, Captain. CAPTAIN I know for a fact that the great-great-great-great-great grandmother of everyone on this planet lived in the Cradle of Humankind near Krugersdorp in Gauteng, South Africa 2.3 million years ago. SERGEANT Yes, Captain. CAPTAIN I know for a fact that all humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans are descendants of a common ancestor. SERGEANT You’re right, Captain. CAPTAIN The Bible junkies can come and try and proof me wrong. SERGEANT They don’t have a verse to stand on. CAPTAIN I know for a fact that a hundred thousand years ago black people, our cousins, walked up north to Europe and after a dreadful ice age that lasted for thousands and thousands of years sailed back down as white people. SERGEANT Youve just opened my eyes to the truth, Captain. CAPTAIN Jan van Riebeeck didn’t “found” Cape Town. I mean, it wasn’t lost in the first place. He just came back to his place of origin. PRIVATE enters with a blood-stained, unconscious TINKER BELL in her arms. PRIVATE She’s alive. CAPTAIN (Points to Koekemoer and Mafoka) Cover their faces Sergeant. SERGEANT covers their faces. CAPTAIN Put her down Private. PRIVATE We can still save her Captain CAPTAIN Don’t let me shoot you Private. PRIVATE The other kid is not in the dressing room. CAPTAIN What? PRIVATE He’s not there. CAPTAIN I shot him. PRIVATE Well, he’s not there. CAPTAIN I swear on Mother Teresa’s grave I’ll kill you right here right now if you don’t put here down so that we can carry on with our mission. PRIVATE Johnny, please. CAPTAIN Don’t say my name woman! PRIVATE It’s just a little girl. CAPTAIN Hari Krishna! SQ 6# SOUND OF A PISTOL SHOT youtu.be/sHffVHCiUto CAPTAIN shoots PRIVATE dead with his pistol. PRIVATE and TINKER BELL fall to the floor. (Pause) SERGEANT Must I go look for Peter Pan, Captain? CAPTAIN No. Let’s do these two first. SERGEANT Okay, Captain. CAPTAIN I’ll record it. You can take it from here. SERGEANT walks over to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER and takes off the bags. CAPTAIN takes the video camera. CAPTAIN Are you ready? SERGEANT I’m ready Captain. CAPTAIN And action! SERGEANT My name is Sergeant James Balzac. I am a member of the New Resistance, a non-racial vigilante network that uses torture and extralegal means of bringing people who think they are above the law to justice. We love South Africa, but we can no longer watch silently when the country we love is being destroyed and brought to shame because of greed and indifferences. Two days ago we kidnapped Wikus Koekemoer a corrupt traffic officer from the Govan Mbeki Traffic Department and Thabo Mafoka a corrupt businessman. Now we are going to torture them. In my hands I have two anus projectiles. This one is 30 cm long and this one 15 cm. We call the 30 cm one “Julius Malema” and the 15 cm one “Steve Hofmeyr”. SERGEANT talks to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER. SERGEANT Under your legs are 12 volt compressors with 12 volt batteries. The compressor is like the ones you use to pump your car tyres. It’s connected to a tube that holds these anus projectiles. As soon as I place Julius Malema and Steve Hofmeyr in these tubes and presses the controls here the compressor slowly pushes them up into the opening at the end of the canal through which solid waste matter leaves the body. The Julius Malema anus projectile will actually kill you. You will basically bleed to death. The Steve Hofmeyr anus projectile will not do as much damage. You will survive. Now to decide which one of you gets Julius Malema and which one gets Steve Hofmeyr. I have this dice. If I throw it and it lands face up one to three then mister Mafoka gets Julius Malema and if it lands face up four to six mister Koekemoer gets Julius Malema. Are you guys ready? SERGEANT throws the dice. SERGEANT Five! Congratulations mister Koekemoer you’re the lucky-unlucky winner. Julius Malema is yours. Mister Mafoka you’re the unlucky-lucky winner. Steve Hofmeyr is yours. To make it more bearable for you guys I will inject you with ZX 101. You will not feel anything from your chest down after I have injected you. SERGEANT injects them with ZX 101. SERGEANT You will feel from your toes up that your body is getting numb. This stuff kicks in really fast. By now both of you won’t feel a thing? SERGEANT shocks MAFOKA with a stun gun. SQ 7# SOUND OF A STUN GUN https://youtube/watch?v=QOe8ComUkiE (After a few seconds) SQ 8# SOUND OF STUN GUN ENDS SERGEANT You see. No pain. Well, Koekemoer. We’ll start with you. SQ 9# SOUND EFFECT youtu.be/Sghk8Mv0qXE CAPTAIN Hari Krishna, what was that? SERGEANT It’s the kid. CAPTAIN Robin Hood! SERGEANT Peter Pan. CAPTAIN Whatever, let’s get the little bastard. SERGEANT covers MAFOKA’s and KOEKEMOER’s faces with the bags. CAPTAIN and SERGEANT exit in different directions. SQ 10# SOUND OF PISTOL SHOTS https://youtube/watch?v=3yf2ohLNgVo CAPTAIN runs on stage. CAPTAIN Hari Krishna. PETER PAN enters with a pistol in his hand. CAPTAIN Were the hell is Sergeant Balzac? PETER PAN Dead! CAPTAIN Put down his pistol kid? PETER PAN I am not a kid. CAPTAIN Robin Hood! PETER PAN Peter Pan! CAPTAIN Sorry, dammit, Peter Pan. Give me the pistol. PETER PAN No. You’ll have to fight me, if you want the pistol. CAPTAIN I am not fighting you. PETER PAN A knife fight! I see you have a knife and I have mine. CAPTAIN I’m not fighting a kid. PETER PAN I am not a kid. I am Peter Pan, the undisputed leader of the Lost Boys and Never Land is my home. CAPTAIN Peter Pan, can we just finish these two guys off and then we can fight? PETER PAN No, we fight to death. The winner can finish them off. CAPTAIN Okay then. Let’s have it your way. SQ 11# MUSIC FADES IN https://youtube/watch?v=LSK9J9hMxto CAPTAIN and PETER PAN fight. PETER PAN kills CAPTAIN with his knife. SQ 12# MUSIC FADES OUT PETER PAN walks over to TINKER BELL. He takes out a small bottle. He opens the bottle and throws some sort of powder over her. SQ 13# FAIRY DUST SOUND EFFECT https://youtube/watch?v=uit2JFjSCYQ TINKER BELL wakes up. PETER PAN Are you okay Tink? TINKER BELL I am fine. PETER PAN Sorry I took so long. TINKER BELL It’s okay Peter. PETER PAN Let’s get rid of these bodies. TINKER BELL Yes. PETER PAN We can throw them in Never Land’s basement. TINKER BELL The crocodiles will be happy. PETER PAN Yes, they will be happy. They drag PRIVATE off stage. SQ 14# SOUND OF BODY FALLING IN WATER youtu.be/AxvzQ386Uao SQ 15# SOUND OF CROCODILES FADES IN https://youtube/watch?v=Jkh3sknNnkI (Pause) SQ 16# SOUND OF SERGEANTS BODY FALLING IN WATER youtu.be/AxvzQ386Uao They enter and drag CAPTAIN off stage. SQ 17# SOUND OF BODY FALLING IN WATER youtu.be/AxvzQ386Uao PETER PAN and TINKER BELL enter and walk over to MAFOKA and KOEKEMOER. SQ 18# SOUND OF CROCODILES FADES OUT TINKER BELL What about these two, Peter? PETER PAN Well, Tink, they are corrupt. TINKER BELL Yes, they are. PETER PAN There is no place for corrupt people in South Africa. TINKER BELL Yes, you’re right. There is no place for corrupt people in South Africa. PETER PAN I will just press the controls. He presses the controls. SQ 19# SOUND OF COMPRESSORS https://youtube/watch?v=l5hHCn0JNvQ PETER PAN We can come back tomorrow and feed them to the crocodiles. TINKER BELL That’s a good idea. They exit. (Long pause) Blood drips from under KOEKEMOER’s bag. Urine flows from MAFOKA’s pants. SQ 20# SOUND OF COMPRESSORS ENDS SQ 21# MUSIC FADES IN youtu.be/EVyXKEnjZKY LQ 4# STAGE LIGHTS FADE OUT SLOWLY LQ 5# BLUE STAGE LIGHTS FADE IN The stage manager and the assistants clear the stage. LQ 6# BLUE STAGE LIGHTS FADE OUT SQ 22# MUSIC FADES OUT LQ 7# HOUSE LIGHTS FADE IN THE END facebook/operationzumastorm OPERATION STORM One Act Play by Henning Botha © 29 November 2014 Actors Studio Trichardt P.O. Box 345, Trichardt, 2300 scapino.zerbino@gmail Cell: 082 440 8120
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