DRAMA ENGLISH ( GOSSIP ) SCENE 1 (Play takes place in a makeshift school newspaper office. NIZAR sits at his desk facing the audience and BUDI is sleeping under a table covered by newspapers) NIZAR: Skeeeeeter! Where are you, boy? BUDI: [Crawls out from under a table] Yeah. NIZAR: What you doin' down there? BUDI: Sleepin'. NIZAR: Didn't you go home last night? BUDI: We had a deadline for the school paper. Pulled an all nighter. NIZAR: So you got the paper done? Where is it? BUDI: [Looks] Shoot. I knew I forgot something. NIZAR: Now, Budi.... BUDI: Oowa, baby. The "Now Nizar" talk. NIZAR: We have an obligation to the people of this school to bring them news on a weekly basis. [BUDI mouths the speech as he sits and listens] We are this town's ear to the world. They count on us to give them the news like no one else can... You listenin' to me, Budi? [He even mouths the last part] BUDI: Yes, ma'am. NIZAR: How much of the pa...
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