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Ang Bata Sa Drum
Ang Bata Sa Drum
CHARACTERS
A 12-year-old girl
A 10-year-0ld boy
SETTING
Only the facade of the Bahay Kubo is seen. To the left is an open door
covered by a sack-like curtain. To the right is a square window. Small
stairsteps are leading up to the door, and a chicken coop is below the
house.
Roro. crouching inside the drum, unseen. He keeps tapping the drum.
He sniffles as if he just cried. Krisel rushes in, holding a tetra pack of
Zest -o juice. She pauses when she sees there's no one there.
(Krisel goes up the stairs and continues to call for Roro. She looks
through the house. She looks outside the window and calls for Roro
again. She pauses when she sees the drum.)
KRISEL: Rorooooo!
(Roro still does not respond. She goes outside and sits on the steps,
sipping her juice. Silence.)
(Silence.)
(Silence.)
(Silence.)
(Roro sticks one finger outside the drum. Krisel inserts the straw
inside the hole, and Roro drinks. Krisel yanks the juice away before
he can finish it.)
RORO: Ay. Naa ra diha. Nandiyan lang 'yung mga "yun, nag-iikot.
Pero babalik naman sila pag malapit na gabi.
(Roro does not respond. and Krisel sighs and walks over to the drum.
She pushes aside the plywood cover and looks inside.)
(Roro takes out a matchbox and gets the spider out using a stick.
Krisel moves away when she sees it.)
(Roro places the spider back inside the matchbox. He places the box
on top of the plywood.)
KRISEL: Hindi 'yan totoo. Kaya nga gatrabaho siya sa syudad di ba,
para makahawa ta dito? Para dina tayo mahirapan kasama si Papa.
(Silence. Krisel stands up and looks around. She looks down at the
chicken coop and sighs.)
(RORO is silent)
KRISEL: Roro, kailangan mubalik ka sas chool. Pag trong ba? Para
makaalis tayo dito. Kaysa nman dito ka lang, walang pinag aralan.
Yan ba gusto nimo?
KRISEL: Sabi ni mama bantayan daw tika! Nalalam ung sinabi niya
bago siya umalis, di ba? Maminaw ka daw sa kin!
(Silence.)
(Krisel stares at clothes on the clothesline. She goes inside the house
and gets an old basket. She takes the clothes off the clothesline and
puts them in the basket. She sits on the steps and begins to fold the
clothes.)
KRISEL: Diya? Ito ba ang gusto mo? Naa-ra ka sa loob ng drum, ikaw ra
usa.
RORO: Okey lang ko diri. Kay pag nasa loob ako ng drum,
kinakausap mo ako.
KRISEL: Alam mo, masuko jud si papa pag nakita niyang wala ang
mga manok. Alam ba niyang umaalis sila pag hapon na?
KRISEL: Lagi. Kasi pag nasa balay siya, malalaman niyang hindi ka
na pumapasok sa school.
KRISEL: Hindi. "Wag kang mag-alala. Basta bumalik lang` yung mga
manok, okey lang. Binibilang mo ba sila pagbalik nila?
(Silence.)
KRISEL: Ha?
(Silence.)
(Silence.)
KRISEL “Ha?
(Krisel moves one of the buckets nearer to the drum. She places a
smaller bucket inside the drum, giving it to Roro.)
(Roro puts the smaller bucket on top of the bigger one. Krisel holds
out one hand to Roro.)
RORO: Ate, okay lang ko. Si papa, wala sa loob ng drum. Walang
Walang masama school sa loob ng drum. Masaya na ako dito.
(Silence.)
KRISEL Kahit na, mas magiging maayos siguro talaga pag umalis
tayo dito, pag uban na ta ni mama sa siyudad.
(Silence.)
(Silence.)
(Silence.)
RORO : Ate, pag umalis ka, sino na ang kakausap sa akin pag nasa
drum, ako?
KRISEL : Roro, pag umalis ako, ayaw na pag gara, para di ka malagay
ni Papa sa drum.
(Silence)
(Silence)
KRISEL: Oo, naman, ate dapat gusto mo din, kase ayoko ko naman
na ginaganito ka, pinapasok ka sa drum.
(Silence)
(Silence. Roro sighs and crouches down inside the drum. He stays
silent. Krisel stands up and goes inside the house. She takes a small
packet of crackers and starts eating them while walking around.)
(Roro, hearing the munching, taps the drum from the inside.)
RORO: Ate, unsa na?
KRISEL: Biskwit.
(Roro sticks his finger out from the hole in the drum.)
(Silence.)
KRISEL: Si mama daw, may amiga na may trak. Susunduin daw niya
ako sa school baka pagkatapos ng graduation.
RORO: E, di ba, pupunta si papa sa graduation?
(Silence.)
KRISEL Ha?
(Silence.)
RORO: Ayoko.
(Silence.)
Silence.