Would you know where you came from?
An extract from 'West Side' (Living Here Play Number 4)
Written by Natalie McGrath
in collaboration with Hannah W, Gary S, Stephanie H, Emma B and Sam J at West Exe Technology College.
MOLLY
Would you know
Where you came from?
What makes you up
It's important
Isn't it?
DIAMOND
What makes you up?
What does that mean?
MOLLY
Something important
You fool
LUCY
What do you think we are made up of?
FELIX
Hunger pangs
JO
You're silly
MOLLY
But it is isn't it
FELIX
What is isn't it?
MOLLY
To know where you belong
FELIX
Its simple
We belong here
We are made up from bits of here
Bits of over there
All the way down to the River
LUCY
Yes
That's it
We are
Little bits and pieces
Of rather a lot
DIAMOND
Wot?
MOLLY
And we are the bits and pieces as well
Making a mark
Of tiny particles
Tiny ripples
Every moment
We are alive
JO
Yes
I know someone who moved to Exeter
From a farm in Suffolk
With her 18 brothers!
DIAMOND
18?!
LUCY
Eight-teeeen
Wow!
JO
Living here
Its become her home
It has become her
And she has become it
DIAMOND
My head hurts
MOLLY
Its a funny question
DIAMOND
Who am I?
FELIX
Who are you?