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Note: In celebration of women’s month, I decided to post this play that I wrote when I was in second year high school. My groupmates helped me come up with ideas, but I was the one who was largely responsible for the conceptualization of the story and the writing of the script. In this play, I talk about two sisters who are awoken to the plight of women and are moved to fight oppression. I also slightly touch upon the issue of honor killings, specifically how raped women (usually in the Middle East) are killed because they have brought “dishonor” to their family. Our group was assigned to write about Pakistan, but in this script, I changed the name of the country into a fictional country because the depiction of this world is not an accurate depiction of Pakistan. I also changed “Allah” to “Azlah” because the god described in this story and the religious practices depicted are not accurate depictions of the Muslim faith.
The three soldiers
Scene 4:
When the lights open, we see the three soldiers named Uncho, Ragheb, and Haamid. Each soldier is holding a bottle of beer. Uncho is a fat proud looking man. Ragheb is an ugly man who is gifted with the blindness of vanity. Haamid is an innocent new soldier who would do anything that his superiors would say. Uncho and Ragheb are on either side of Haamid. The older soldiers each have an arm around Haamid. Haamid looks uncomfortable and is the only one who isn’t drunk.
Uncho and Ragheb: (Singing in very loud voices.) 99 bottles of beer on the wall! 99 bottles of beer! Take one down, and pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall!
