Performance skills-alarm-call-2016

1. AFTERNOON
Room white dreary, dark, claustrophobic ,lifeless,
hopless.
6 mental asylum patients at St. Anns Hospital. They
Crawl on stage to the Sound of dark,haunting,depressing
music,They are wearing masks that symbolize their
broken states, when the music stops they slowly take of
the masks and assume their roles going into their own
little worlds
HOSPITAL NURSES
They are dragging in a patient mocking him as they leave
they look at the patients to make fun of them in their
tableau states
NURSE 1
Look at MS. Universe here holding onto that dolly like that's she man eh hmm lol .Earth
To mars darling you aint no barbie and that rag a dang thing yuh have is not no Ken, get
with the program
NURSE 2
Look at this one watching the T.V. Like she waiting to win the lotto but the T.V. Aint
wuking yuh know
Laughing hysterically
Don't worry hunny Bold and beautiful will be starting soon ok
NURSE 1
LOOk at this one na mavis like she want ah child,gyul no man could nevr get drunk
enough to breed you haha
NURSE 2
Rock ah by baby on the tree top
Both nurses laugh uncontrollably
NURSE 1
But look at this one always combing she hair like she feel she is miss Universe ladies and
gentleman I give you Ms. St Anns 2016 . Pose for the camera
They begin to make all sorts of model poses mocking the
patient then exist the room
We now introduce the esteemed sociologist Dr.Desha
Rambhachan who participated in an experiment that

2. studied the behaviour of human beings and rats in their
living environments.
SOCIOLOGIST
Thanks for those kind words of introduction it is a pleasure to be here .
RECEPTIONIST
ST. ANNS CAN I HELP YOU?
Pause as he waits for reply
Oh you don't feel like talking thats small thing i don't feel to either 90% of the day
AKIELA CHAMBERS
Lonely, low self esteem, always looking at the ceiling
constantly told she is a failure as aa child scared for life
They sent me to the psychiatrist, arranged the interview , i was so ashamed
Phone rings receptionist answers
RECEPTIONIST
Samaritans can i help you?
Akeila Chambers
You can't help me no one can help me !!!!
RECEPTIONIST
Well lets try
SHAUNA LUKE
Curious bi-polar case who can't remember anything for
more than 10 minutes, Akeila makes her curious she
wants to understand her
Who arranged the interview?
AKIELA CHAMBERS
The personnel,administrative, assistant director general
SHAUNA LUKE
Perhaps he was worried about you ?
AKIELA CHAMBERS
He had no right things does spread like ah jep nest inside ah there yes,before yuh know it
every body in the office no my business, yuh can't talk yuh business there yuh know,
every body does smile at you and cut yuh throat behind yuh back

3. SHAUNA LUKE
Gosh maybe he was worried about you
AKIELA CHAMBERS
They had no right now everyone laughing at me i can't take the stares
SHAUNA LUKE
Why did he ?
AKIELA CHAMBERS
My walk yes my walk i used to walk with a slight limp yuh see yes that's it,it used to save
my heel from going down and my bad calf, yes i saw it in a spy movie once , its very
good at showing stealth mode to , yes, the staff they jealous me so they sent me to a
shrink!!
SHAUNA LUKE
Why a shrink if its your leg?
AKIELA CHAMBERS
Its not my leg. I don't like people staring at me ;that's all , i don't like meeting the eyes,if
you meet someone in the corridor , face to face well naturally you know ,you'd have to
say something, yuh see I'm shy,i don't enjoy talking to people, I'm easily embarrassed , or
don't what to be laughed at i don't want to give them the opportunity
RECEPTIONIST
Do you see your parents at all?
KEYANA CUMBERBATCH
My fathers dead, shot down on Nelson street, i was only seven when my mom walked
out. They took care of me
RECEPTIONIST
St. Anns can i help you ?
KEYANA CUMBERBATCH
Yes they took care of me the neighbors and my aunt and all her boyfriends, they used to
like to play doctor and nurse with me yes yes,,i was a disappointment to my aunt , maybe
because i wet the bed yes ,if only i had been a boy things would be different
SHAUNA LUKE
Why did the shrink tell you?
AKIELA CHAMBERS
Oh he was a nice man he understood everything that i said,i was able to tell him why i'm
the way i am and he said thats ok
RECEPTIONIST

4. St. Anns can i help you?
AMY EMILY
I just get so far with people , i mean i can hardly connect and people just don't stick
around. When they get what they want they're gone and I'm left drowning. I've Been
alone for as long as i can remember
SHAUNA LUKE
But what did the shrink tell you?
AKIELA CHAMBERS
Getting increasingly agitated
He asked me if i wanted tablets, but i dont want any tablets tablets are for mad people ,
i'm i'm perfectly fineeee, i don't see the need, i don't approve of drugs, but that does not
solve my problem right everyone thinks i'm psychoooo
RECEPTIONIST
St Anns can i help you?
LILY
Low self esteem, bullied as a child in school, abused my
her ex husband beaten until all her legs and jaw were
broken , she is a shattered woman .
They tell me i should give up T.V. Cable is a waste of money after all the channels
getting cut anyway,Standards only harrassing my phone over payment threatening to
take my set, i tell them don't worry after the eye operation ill come in to pay installments
after all i can't see that well.They Came and took the T.V 3 times well at least i get back
some money to take out another one
RECEPTIONIST
St. Anns can i help you?
DARIO
Gone crazy because of years of drug abuse, sees ghost,
duppies and spirits.
They abandon me, now where to go then i found my precious, my while silky precious,
we used to go on roller coaster rides for days many up and downs the happiest feeling in
the world.Then They start to put my precious further and further up in the sky so high, i
had to sell everything to reach her yes yes,
LILY
No body understood the love , the connection between that T.V. Set and me the passion
we had, and then it happened, my eyes started to twitch, i waited 6 years for that
operation, all that corruption in government and my eyes suffered , i dont see the faces
on T.V. No more but i can tell when they move, when i get operation all will be well
again

5. DARIO
I sold my shoes , socks ,draws, mother wedding ring, i set up my own father to get rob to
buy my precious, BUT THEY KEPT putting her higher and higher until i could not do
anything to get her
Pause as he hallucinates
Now now i hear voices on the radio yes yes , the duppy coming for me , the reaper man
with the fork, he want my precious he want to smoke she out buts she's mineeeeeeee she's
mineeeeeeeeee no one can have her
SOCIOLOGIST
Case 1348 Seventeen years old .Left The orphanage 3 months ago and has been leaving
by theft.
SHEILA
Driven mad by years of abuse mental and physical her
mind is a cartoon of eggs the slightest nudge and she will
be pushed over the edge .
Was eight of us mammmy make ,fathers never around, my sisters pregnant by fourteen,
all my brothers dead by 25, i had to get out somehow so i found the home , but that place
turned into a hell hole.then I met this man he told me he loved me used to carry me KFC
buy a 5 piece special, but then he left me, and i was lost so i ran and i ran until i found a
next guy and then he beat me i thought he loved me so i ran and i ran an i fewll into the
arms of a next man.... And then he paid me i became numb until i suffocated
SOCIOLOGIST
CASE 1239 forty ,married,3 miscarriages ,2 suicide attempts
BLANCHE
Pacing up and down in a very nervous,stummering
manner
I used to think it was my fault ,, i mean i lost the babies, maybe thats what drove him
away, yes yes it was me , i could not give him the kids so thats why he went outside that
why, iuts all my fault i was to weak to needy to soft ,ive no reason to be depressed I've no
reason to be down, be happy be happy ,, smile smile