The F&L at 1330
12 Characters, 7F, 5M, 2 4-character roles
(6 actors total)
(6 actors total)
BERNARDO
This is Chicago, baby girl. City Hall decides who leaves and who stays. Look around. We’re the last old business on the street. All the rest of ‘em gone. The grocery store, the furniture store, the diner, even the guy with the tamale cart – gone. Now it’s just a bunch of twenty-story condos and us. City Hall decided that.
ELENA
And now they want us gone. To build another condo.
BERNARDO
Or some store that sells some Louis Vuitton shit or them glass jars filled with marbles that you sit in the middle of your dining room table for no fucking reason. (pause) Fifteen years ago, the city act like they didn't even know this neighborhood was here. Had to call for a whole month one time to get them fix the damn streetlights. Now? Shit, somebody call about some homeless dude sleeping in the playground and the cops there in two minutes.