The Dancers by Alberto Florentino
The Dancers
Before the Play will start the narrator will read: ( Lights are off, characters are in a freeze while the narrator reads)
Narrator: what is a family? Family are people in your life who you may be related to by blood, marriage, or choice, often for a lifetime (yours or theirs), who you hold dear and would generally do anything to help them when needed including making personal sacrifices, and whom you generally agree to accept no matter what they do.
They may be someone you see daily or infrequently but the bond remains, and stands the test of time, distance, and overrides almost any challenges.
But what if your family suffers from poverty, a family composed of a father that does not work for his family a drunkard and irresponsible, and forces his daughters to dance in the cabaret in order to earn for a living and the mother cannot do anything but to cry out loud to God for what is happening with her family, with a younger brother who is still innocent but had experienced seeing what people do inside a cabaret entered the cabaret and saw a place of sin.
It is a story drama written by Alberto Florentino. It is a story of an unfortunate family who suffers from poverty; it is a story of how a family is being ruined because of POVERTY. Ladies and Gentlemen THE DANCERS.
First SCENE:
(Father is seated looking outside the window while smoking, and Elena arrives with her bright colored tight shorts. She wears a heavy makeup. Father went out and seems like he is infatuated with Elena, father looked at Elena intensely)
Elena/Jan Alaiza: (screaming the name of Rita while walking towards the house of Rita)
: Rita! Rita!?? (fixing her dress) Good evening Mang Tomas is Rita ready to Go?
Father or Mang Tomas/Ace: (to Elena, father comes out of the house and get near Elena looking at her lustfully from head to toe.)
: oh Elena! Rita is not yet here. Elena how pretty you are tonight with your nice dress on
Elena/Jan Alaiza: thank you Mang Tomas
Father or Mang
Before the Play will start the narrator will read: ( Lights are off, characters are in a freeze while the narrator reads)
Narrator: what is a family? Family are people in your life who you may be related to by blood, marriage, or choice, often for a lifetime (yours or theirs), who you hold dear and would generally do anything to help them when needed including making personal sacrifices, and whom you generally agree to accept no matter what they do.
They may be someone you see daily or infrequently but the bond remains, and stands the test of time, distance, and overrides almost any challenges.
But what if your family suffers from poverty, a family composed of a father that does not work for his family a drunkard and irresponsible, and forces his daughters to dance in the cabaret in order to earn for a living and the mother cannot do anything but to cry out loud to God for what is happening with her family, with a younger brother who is still innocent but had experienced seeing what people do inside a cabaret entered the cabaret and saw a place of sin.
It is a story drama written by Alberto Florentino. It is a story of an unfortunate family who suffers from poverty; it is a story of how a family is being ruined because of POVERTY. Ladies and Gentlemen THE DANCERS.
First SCENE:
(Father is seated looking outside the window while smoking, and Elena arrives with her bright colored tight shorts. She wears a heavy makeup. Father went out and seems like he is infatuated with Elena, father looked at Elena intensely)
Elena/Jan Alaiza: (screaming the name of Rita while walking towards the house of Rita)
: Rita! Rita!?? (fixing her dress) Good evening Mang Tomas is Rita ready to Go?
Father or Mang Tomas/Ace: (to Elena, father comes out of the house and get near Elena looking at her lustfully from head to toe.)
: oh Elena! Rita is not yet here. Elena how pretty you are tonight with your nice dress on
Elena/Jan Alaiza: thank you Mang Tomas
Father or Mang