Take to the Streets!

(A has a clipboard. Enter B)

A: Are you a revolutionary?

B: Yes.

A: Do you believe in changing the world through acts of love?

B: Yes!

A: Could you spare ten minutes of your time to support - ?

B: No.

(Exit B. A marks the clipboard, picks up a Styrofoam cup. Enter C)

A: Are you a revolutionary?

C: Yes

A: Is there love and sympathy in your heart for the poor creatures of this earth?

C: Yes!

A: Could you spare some change –

(overlapping)


A: Anything, fifty cents, I just need to get

a sandwich, I haven’t eaten anything today

and I’m hungry, please just the change in

your pockets

(Exit C. A marks the clipboard, picks up a rifle. Enter D.)

A: Ah, Comrade. Are you a revolutionary?

D: Yes, Comrade.

A: Do you believe in class struggle, the reality of history, and the need to act for social change?

D: Yes!

A: Could you spare several years of your life to work for the violent overthrow of the bourgeois state?

D: Yes.

A: Really? Are you sure? (picks up clipboard)

D: Comrade, are you a revolutionary?

A: I don’t know.

D: Could you spare several years of love in ongoing support of change for a sandwich?

A: I don’t know.

D: Could you spare a poor creature for ten minutes overthrow of bourgeois sympathy?

A: I don’t know.


D: Could you spare a worldwide history with just what’s in your heart’s pocket?

A: I don’t know,

(Overlapping)


A: Listen - D: Listen -

(Beat. Beat.)

D: Comrade.

A: Yes.

D: Could you help me?

A: Could you spare me?

(Curtain)