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10,260 listeners David Ramirez. Waiting for six a.m. KATIE Waiting to shoot your new rifle. MICHAEL But you hear boots on dead leaves. 11._ MICHAEL We're gonna open you up. 47._ ACTOR 5 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Blackboard phantom's doin' summer school. ACTOR 1 (AS JOSH'S DAD) You have to learn patience. ACTOR 2 Touchdown. My name's Josh. Deceased follow again, but not so closely, perhaps upstage.) EMILY I miss screaming at the football games. EMILY I'll never see Paris. (Voices laugh mockingly) Wish somebody would put me out of my misery! MICHAEL Thousands. My rifle holds five bullets. I have no choice but to expell you for the rest of the year. JESSIE You doze off. JESSIE Drenched in ranch dressing. ACTOR 5/RUMOR I wonder if he really killed the buck. Josh holds the flashlight under his chin as he speaks to the turned backs of his parents.) My life is over. There’s the Sheriff and their deputy, do-gooders who stand for justice in a lawless landscape. EMILY A heart nobody knows. I wasn't ready for the test. JOSH I have nothing to say to you. Why'd you kill us? (Actor 1, as Grandpa, sits next to Josh on the box that now becomes a truck.) It's him? KATIE Never ski again. JOSH Whoa. I knew what I was doing! ACTOR 4 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Boom. When we were eleven you let me play war with you and the other boys because you liked how I died. JESSIE The moment of truth has come. Production Order Order here Order scripts and other material for your entire cast and arrange your royalties here. ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) Maybe his honesty deserves the rifle for a reward. These two set porps function as the cot, judge's bench, pri ncipal's office, Grandpa's truck and any other furniture or space defining objec t for which the actors endow them. JESSIE Wounds that never heal. ACTOR 4 (AS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) Why'd the monkey fall out of the tree? ACTOR 1 (AS GRANDPA) Respect the animals. JOSH You see anybody bleeding? JOSH Maybe I'll join a gang. ACTOR 4 (AS PROSECUTOR) I call witnesses for the prosecution! MATT I miss mom's cooking. JOSH I'd have to know when the words were written, wouldn't I, officer? JOSH (laughing) Gotta find him first. JESSIE Didn't you feel badly? 15._ ACTOR 1 (AS PUBLIC DEFENDER) Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, he's just a child. Wish my parents felt that way. JOSH Katie, right? ACTOR 4 She's looking at you, Josh. EMILY I miss opening a door on a winter's day and feeling the cool rush of cold air on my face. (Drum out.) JOSH Why confess when I didn't do anything? Bang Bang You're Dead was written in the wake of the school massacres that occurred in Paducah, Jonesboro, and Springfield; Mastrosimone wrote it to raise awareness about school violence. ACTOR 2 (VOICE IN THE DARK) One bullet would quiet them forever. And I can only say "BRAVO"! The actors, between 13 and 18 years old, are students at Enumclaw schools. The two people on either side of the person whose name was called fire their guns at him by pointing their guns in his or her direction and saying “Bang-Bang! JOSH For how long? What was that noise? ACTOR 3 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Now he's a pathetic wannabe forever! Tell me one thing grandpa said. JOSH So what. JESSIE Never explore the caldera of a volcano. "Bang! (A female voice in the dark starts to hum and then sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" under the monologue) Dad? KATIE I miss jumping into a cool pool on a hot day. KATIE Duh. I wanted to do my part. Stupid! (ABSOLUTE DARKNESS. (Michael holds the flashlight under his chin illuminating only his face.) ALL Never. JESSIE Grandpa watches you load the rifle's magazine. MICHAEL You show him the safety is on. 1. Why can't I have another chance? (Flashlights out.) I came to your birthdays, you came to mine. KATIE You liked me. EMILY I'll never find the right person to spend my life with. You'll never feel a thing. JESSIE I'll never cry at my children's graduation. MATT Wounds that weep. EMILY A heart nobody knows. 60._ KATIE And dark to light. MATT Do you enjoy making everyone afraid? You're dead!" (Chorus echoes "V.I.P.") ACTOR 1/RUMOR We're all just waiting for a massacre to happen. MATT Take back the bullet. MATT Till you tell us why. PLACE: The space is a void, in which any action might be possible. The end credits even reveal how often and where the "internal Play" has been seen and performed. JOSH Maybe it's my childhood. JOSH You have no idea what it's like to be somebody one day, and nobody the next. JOSH It's simple math. Never! ACTOR 5 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Hear about Josh? Stop it, please? Michael enters asking Katie to go with him to get some food, Jessie rushes in to tell Matt she's been accepted to college. JOSH I know who it is. Can't you smile in your moment of glory? JESSIE Wishing you ate the oatmeal your mother begged you to eat. ACTOR 2/RUMOR What a dork! "Bang, bang! JOSH Can't you give me another chance? Eventually Emily "kills" Katie and Matt who drop dead. EMILY But this buck's too beautiful to kill. ACTOR 4 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Boom. (After a moment of absolute silence--) ACTOR 2 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Boom. Alone in the darkness, … MICHAEL Now you have proof of who you are. Matt slumps in defeat. MICHAEL So you make your face a mask. JOSH No. MICHAEL Scars on body and mind. EMILY And nothing but the truth. ACTOR 5/RUMOR I think it's Melissa. The film takes as its subject the accidental killing of a man by a child, and the struggles of the child and his companion to comprehend the gravity of what has happened. JOSH Positive. ACTOR 1 (AS GRANDPA) Atta boy. Who's he mad at? Bang Bang You're Dead. (Let the following rumor lines overlap in succession: Actor 5 begins, "I wonder..." Cue Actor 1 with, "What? JOSH Why not you? Not until I know what's really in your heart. JOSH What did I do? KATIE Under your skin. MATT Why? (Josh sits on the floor.) ACTOR 5 (AS COP) You know anything about the words on the blackboard? Michael and Emily shoot each other at the same time. Maybe it's my zodiac. EMILY All my life I've been taught to forgive. will tour local and Bay Area schools during the week of November 17th, 2019 and play at the Hammer Theatre Center’s Hammer 4 Theatre for four performances. ACTOR 5 (AS COP) Let us know if you hear anything. ACTOR 3/RUMOR My parents want me to stay home till the killer's found. KATIE I like somebody else now. 26._ MICHAEL Give back its pride. And study on summer nights? JESSIE Eat you for breakfast. While I was posting yesterdays scribblings,in a strange synchronicity the police had surrounded Raoul Moat, and after a six hour stand off he killed himself. Lights fade. Never. I'm invisible sometimes. (she goes back to her work) Guess what I wrote about. MICHAEL I'll never know what it is to live on my own and be independent. ACTOR 5 (VOICE IN THE DARK) With you. ALL Hold the anchovies! The others follow on their lines.) Isn't it hard enough being nobody? EMILY Why'd you kill us? I never hurt you. — Why me? JOSH What do you mean? DRUMMER (AS CON) You'll see what we mean, bad boy. ACTOR 4 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Leave your brains on the wall. MATT The time has come. 46._ ACTOR 5 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Always was a weenie. JOSH That's dumb. 39._ KATIE You're full of it. We do it with "bangs" AND "clicks" (like the sound of a gun reloading) to make it even more confusing. ACTOR 5 (AS PRINCIPAL) You do? egy egyfelvonásos színdarab, írta William Mastrosimone. JOSH Love that military stance! KATIE Say for example your boyfriend says he's gonna meet you at the mall and take you to a movie but instead he goes hunting. JOSH What is this? KATIE I have no idea, but he did me a favor. JESSIE A pain that eats your heart. JESSIE Why me? I don't even know you. JESSIE I'll never go to college and have a double major. ACTOR 2 (VOICE IN THE DARK) The great hunter's gotta repeat the grade. (The voices in the dark laugh mockingly.) JOSH You don't even trust me. ACTOR 5 (AS PRINCIPAL) Someone in this auditorium wrote some very threatening words on the blackboard. EMILY Your eyes meet the buck's. (Matt drops) DEAD! ACTOR 4 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Josh the joke! It's killing me not to tell. MATT You both head for the forest. KATIE You don't know. BANG BANG: The game begins by the facilitator calling out the name of someone in the group. ACTOR 4 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Kill the voices, Josh. He begins to look at the deceased with new respect.) JOSH I don't like you. JESSIE You'll have us in your head until you're dead. MATT Second shot misses. ACTOR 4 (AS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) Why'd the monkey fall out of the tree? MATT A face that hides the pain. Josh interrupts.) We live on the same street. ACTOR 2/RUMOR We shouldn't talk about it. KATIE Why would the blackboard phantom confide in you? ACTOR 2 Love it. MATT You both get out of the truck. This is modern, contemporary stuff, where lives are on the line, not a cartoon. Why'd you kill me? JOSH Mom? JOSH Who cares? EMILY We want to hear you say it to yourself...Why, Josh? ACTOR 1 (AS JOSH'S DAD) We're sorry. JOSH Grandpa hunts. "Journey To Glory" is an multiplayer Kingdoms strategy game produced by 175game. JOSH Voices. 49._ ACTOR 2 (VOICE IN THE DARK) While everybody's having fun in the sun, Josh is reading gobble-de-gook in a book! EMILY Not ever. Bang! "Bang Bang You're Dead," a new film on Showtime that premieres Sunday at 7 p.m., doesn't promise any answers on the issue of school violence. JOSH Oh, yeah. JESSIE A pain that eats your heart. Amazing. You'll be a man by the end of the day. ACTOR 1 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Paducah. MICHAEL Grandpa parks the truck. JESSIE Full of scars. (One by one the deceased rise dream-like and begin to exit slowly turning out their lights.) KATIE In the dark. MATT I miss going into the cafeteria and deciding who I want to sit with. JOSH Who's there? JOSH More than I can say! EMILY Fourth shot misses! For example, you finish doing the "bang bang bang" thing, and then stop and ask who died. But what's he know? ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) Josh, there's no way we're buying you a rifle. 48._ ACTOR 4 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Over. MATT And fries. 56._ MICHAEL Pepperoni. ACTOR 1 (AS GRANDPA) Let's go, Josh. It's over. 55._ (Matt steps forward, flashlight under his chin.) ACTOR 4 (AS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) Why did you write on the blackboard, Josh? (Matt's flashlight goes out. ACTOR 5 (AS PRINCIPAL) It's tragic when a gifted young man throws away an education--for what? ACTOR 2/RUMOR What? ACTOR 4 (AS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) It died. One script per cast member is required. MATT Never scuba off Australia. KATIE I miss when you start the school year and you open a book for the first time and the spine cracks. 41._ ACTOR 5 (AS PRINCIPAL) We have a snitch. Five bullets, five people. 64._ JOSH What do you want from me? MICHAEL Or really know myself. My parents don't see me. Works every time. MATT Hopeless. MICHAEL Why do you have to shoot me through the head? (Michael steps forward, flashlight under chin.) KATIE Hi. ACTOR 3/RUMOR How do you know? on Indiegogo. (slaps catsup on her abdomen) Feel like a man when you shot me in the stomach? Bang Bang You're Dead may refer to: Bang Bang You're Dead (play), a 1999 one-act play by William Mastrosimone Bang Bang You're Dead (film), a 2002 film based on the play "Bang Bang You're Dead" (song), a 2006 song by Dirty Pretty Things Our Man in Marrakesh (also known as Bang! ACTOR 5 (AS PRINCIPAL) Not if you make it up in summer school. ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) How? DECEASED AND CHORUS DEAD! KATIE With milk. You know about our zero tolerance policy of violence or even the threat of violence. ALL DECEASED Bam! MATT I miss, even at my age, not being able to sleep on Christmas Eve. EMILY I'll never be married in a white dress and have a huge wedding. Why me? (Josh stands amid the actors 1-4 and the deceased who make idle chatter like kids gathering in the auditorium. Terrill was one of 13 cast members in a local production of "Bang, Bang, You're Dead," a play that explores the mind and heart of a character named Josh - a 15-year-old who has shot and killed his parents and five of his schoolmates. ACTOR 5 Water gun. ACTOR 5 (AS COP) Alright, I want everyone to stand by his or her locker. JOSH You snitched on me. Lights off Actor 5. You're all just a bad dream. There was a touching attention to detail in terms of costumes and lighting, from Josh’s half-open backpack to red-lighting showering down on the statement ‘Everybody in this class is dead meat’ that was reminiscent of a butcher-shop. Deceased shine flashlights at Josh. EMILY Restore the buck to its majesty. JOSH You talk different-- ACTOR 4 When you have a gun. Everybody's gotta die sometime. ... enlists him for the lead of a play, "Bang Bang … ACTOR 3/RUMOR Whoa! Learn more . KATIE Why him? 37._ ACTOR 1/RUMOR Why do you say that? ACTOR 5 (AS PRINCIPAL) Can I speak with you in my office, Josh? (At the director's discretion, cut one or two of the following sections (5 or 10 lines) and let the actors improvise. KATIE Why me, Josh? ACTOR 1/RUMOR I think he shot the bull. Emily dies very dramatically with all the appropriate sounds. MATT A face that hides the pain. Learn respect for firearms. MATT Why me? Have a seat. ACTOR 1 (VOICE IN THE DARK) Hear about Josh? At least you said it was. 54._ Lights up on Josh only, in a military stance. Wasn't it Katie? JOSH If you trust me, then get me the rifle now. Beat.) JOSH Who do you think it is? ACTOR 4 (AS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) Voices in the air or voices in your head? Why me? MICHAEL Or Tokyo. Why'd you kill us? (Quick drum rhythm. 42._ ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) And you're grounded, Josh. Who is it? It is strongly based on the events surrounding Kip Kinkel's shootings of his parents on May 20, 1998, and 27 of his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon on May 21, 1998. ACTOR 1/RUMOR Who could it be? They turn the box on its side, open the lid. JOSH When I hear the voices. EMILY Because it hurts to see a-- MICHAEL Beautiful-- KATIE Magnificent-- MATT Proud-- JESSIE Keen buck dying on the ground. ACTOR 4 (AS PSYCHOTHERAPIST) Whose voices? JOSH Don't know. Free Play on Teenage Gun Violence | Check out 'Bang Bang You're Dead A play. ' JOSH It's just for laughs. JESSIE Utterly taken by its feral beauty. JOSH You were everything I wanted to be. © William Mastrosimone 1998, 2009. (Lights off Actor 4.) ACTOR 4 The whole wrestling team. I'll never do all I wanted to do. JOSH You'll see if I mean it! ACTOR 3 (AS JOSH'S MOM) Oh, Josh, you don't really mean that. JOSH Don't know. 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