"THEATER OF WORDS"

A

NEW PLAY

BY

BINA SHARIF

COPYRIGHT:Bina Sharif 2012

THE MOST SOPHISTICATED LADY: (SO CALLED)

Oh! I am sorry

You misunderstood me.

It must be your English.

You know what I mean?

I mean....

Your cultural origin....

Your background........

You know

You always wear nice scarfs...

Nice jewel

But your understanding of my support

system is cultural.

Origin, background.

You always wear nice scarfs

Nice jewelry

But your understanding of my support system

is cultural.

You know what I mean?

You understand what I am saying?

I mean you should be proud of yourself

You know my language

and I don't speak any hindi

even if your grammar is not there yet.........

UNSOPHISTICATED LADY: (SO CALLED)

You don't need to remind me

that I am inferior than you.

I already know and have understood that.

ANOTHER UNSOPHISTICATED LADY: (SO CALLED)

Yes, me too.

Remember last time

and many many times before that

you told me that I was inferior and since you

are such a great, great friend and my only support system

and my only supportive friend

in the west...

I really understood that...

and I am now in complete awareness of

my position of inferiority...............

THE MOST SOPHISTICATED LADY: (SO CALLED)

But still here and there

you can understand what we mean........

THE SECOND UNSOPHISTICATED LADY:

You don't need to apologize

since we are inferior

and trying to perfect our inferiority

in a superior atmosphere

so we can listen to you and like you.

I mean no wrong

but we need to listen to you

and correct our grammar....

You are perfectly correct

because here in correct and perfect grammatic society

we need to learn

the correct grammar ....

but actually that will

hinder our descent into inferiority

and to please you........................(Interruption by the third unsophisticated lady)

THE THIRD UNSOPHISTICATED LADY

And to please you

we need to go down to the ground

and we are almost there....

Actually you helped us get there

and now we are extremely peaceful

with our new superior position

which is our complete inferiority.

In order to make peace in the world

especially in the modern, liberated world

there has to be complete submission

and subjugation

and obedience

of one kind of people with incorrect grammar

to the other kind of people with perfect grammar

After all its the theater of words.

For so long we tried to be like you

tried so hard to learn the grammar

but alas...............

But now we have healed our self...............(Interrupted by the fourth unsophisticated lady)

THE FOURTH UNSOPHISTICATED LADY

We healed our selves finally

mind you with a great effort...

and now our tail is the proof.

We are fully tamed,

domestic, harmless inferior animals.

Gee, how can I convince you of your own superiority

if you yourself don't believe it?

and thats the problem between superior and inferior people.

If your grammar is correct

you are superior

and if its not correct

you are inferior.

Thats it

Simple as all that

You have been teaching us grammar

and we still got it wrong

Just can't get it right

because thats the sign of inferiority

in the theater of words.................

Words, thats all.

Words, words, words.............

I know the words but I don't have correct grammar...........

I accept it fully

that I am inferior..........

FIFTH UNSOPHISTICATED LADY:

We fully...

one hundred percent believe

that we are inferior people.

But you have to go to psychiatrists

and pay thousands of dollars to believe in your own superiority

though you describe your problems to the superior lady,(the psychiatrist)

in perfect grammar and even if she believes that you are superior

but just wants the money and have you on the leash...

you yourself don't believe in your own superiority....

Then sometimes just to prove your superiority

you literally kill.....

That's not superiority

that's violence.....................

We the inferior have come to peace

and you the superior have come to violence

and when you give the orders for violence

you use perfect grammar

because you are superior

and you are the lead actors in the theater of words.

And we?

Not even supporting players............

We are still considered animals............

Amazing...........

Modernity is so hard to comprehend

Just like grammar...........................

THEATER OF WORDS TO CONTINUE.