(13) Fátima-Muslim Girl (Eva)

ACT 2: (13) Fátima-Muslim Girl (Eva) and (14) María-Catholic Girl (Cynthia) (Sounds of birds in the park)

 

1. (12) Narrator 5 (María or a German student) (39 words):

We find ourselves in a park in any European city. Maria is wandering about, waiting for her sister whilst eating a sandwich. Suddenly, a girl runs past her, trips and falls into her, causing her to drop her sandwich.

 

María – (10 words) Hey! What are you doing? Be careful, that’s my snack.

Fátima – (4 words) Sorry (she picks up the sandwich, shakes it about a little bit and gives it back to her...she looks at it and wrinkles her nose), what’s in it?

M – (14 words) Well, you could at least ask me my name first. And tell me yours!

Fa – (6 words) Ok, my name’s Fatima, and you?

M – (16 words) I’m Maria and I don’t know why you’re making that face at my sandwich, it’s ham!

Fa – (9 words) Ah, it’s just that I don’t eat pigs’ meat.

M – (6 words) What a strange girl you are!

Fa – (10 words) Well if you’re going to be like that, I’m going (and she turns around...)

M – (7 words) No, wait...it’s because you’re a vegetarian, right?

Fa – (16 words) No, I’m a Muslim...it’s a religion, if you don’t know (sarcastically) and we don’t eat pig’s meat.

M – (7 words) Ahhh and what else don’t you do?

Fa – (6 words) Better, what else do we do!

M – (4 words) Ok, but tell me.

Fa – (11 words) Well, we have to pray five times a day facing Mecca.

M – (9 words) Ah, alright, I have to pray every day, too.

Fa – (7 words) On Fridays, I go to the mosque.

M – (7 words) And on Sundays, I go to church.

Fa – (35 words) Ha ha, well if you didn’t like what I told you about us not eating pigs’ meat, wait till you hear this...during the month of Ramadan, adults neither eat nor drink from sunrise till sunset.

M –(10 words) Well, on Fridays, during Lent, we shouldn’t eat meat either.

Fa – (21 words) It’s curious isn’t it? We’re not that different...ok, one more thing. What’s the one thing Muslims do that Catholics don’t do?

M – (4 words) Hmmm...go on then, what?

Fa – (15 words) I have to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca, at least once in my life.

M  – (18 words) And you think that we don’t? Catholics go on pilgrimages to Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela...(that’s in Spain).

 

1.      (15) Narrator 6 (Eva or German student) (19 words) A girl appears. She is Maria’s sister and is pulling at her to leave. Before she turns to go:

 M – (1 word) Fatima!

Fa – (1 word) Yes?

M – (20 words) I have to come and pick up my sister every Wednesday. You live here, next to the park, don’t you?

Fa – (1 word) Yes...

M – (12 words) If you want, we can meet next time and continue our conversation.

Fa – (5 words) Ok, but on one condition.

M – (2 words)What’s that? (laughing)

Fa – (16 words) That you bring a cheese or omelette sandwich and that you give me a little bit! (laughs)

M – (5 words) Great! See you on Wednesday!

Fa – (3 words) See you then!