MAGNIFICENCE SCRIPT SCENE ONE: NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION Vicente: Good afternoon, Mrs. Tumpindo! *tips hat Mrs. Tumpindo: Oh good afternoon to you too, Vicente! How did you find the meeting today? (Bea and CJ playing in the background) Vicente: It was all very exciting! I very much liked your idea about the new barrio fiesta for our neighborhood! Mrs. T: Oh I’m glad you’re participating! Vicente: *looks at children* Your children have grown to be so beautiful since I’d last seen them! They look so smart, and have grown so much taller! Especially Bea! Mrs. T: *looks proud* Why thank you, Vicente! Glad to know my good parenting skills are paying off! Vicente: Indeed, indeed. You know, I have a lot of free time on my hands, and I would love to get to know your children better. How are they doing in school? Mrs. T: They enjoy it very much! But their homework, they are so lazy with them! Vicente: I have nothing to do in the evenings, let me help them. Mrs. T: If you wish to bother yourself. Vicente: *nods and smiles* SCENE TWO: HOUSE Narrator: (WHILE CHILDREN + VICENTE ACT SILENTLY) And it was settled, the man came in the evenings and helped solve fractions for the boy and write correct phrases in language for the little girl. There was nothing the children feared about Vicente, he was always so gentle, so kind. At night when the little girl and her brother were bathed in the light of the big shaded bulb that hung over the big study table in the downstairs hall, the man would knock gently on the door, and come in, he would stand for awhile just beyond the pool of light, the rest of him in shadow. The little girl and her brother would look up at him where they sat, their eyes bright and watch him come fully into the light, his voice soft, his manner slow. He would smell faintly of sweat and pomade, but the children didn’t mind, for they waited for him every evening as they sat at their lessons like this. He’d throw his visored cap on the table, then he’d nod his head to say one was right, or shake it to say one was wrong. It was like this for most evenings, except one that would ultimately reveal his true intentions/feelings. *VICENTE SMILES MALICIOUSLY* SCENE THREE: OUTSIDE SCHOOL/JAPANESE BAZAARS Classmate 1: I’m so excited to purchase paper butterflies at the bazaar today!!!!! Classmate 2: What? You loser!!! Paper butterflies are sooooo last week! Everyone is raging about pencils now! Bea: Yeah! They come in different colors too! But they sell for 5 centavos though, it’s so expensive. Classmate 1: 5 centavos?!?!?!?! I’d have to not eat for 5 days just to buy one
Classmate 2: Yeah But I want a whole collection of them! Around 4 or 5! To tie with strings near the eraser end! CJ: To dangle from my book-basket! Classmate 1: To make our other classmates jealous! :> *they laugh* Vicente: Did I hear something about pencilssssss? Children: Vicente!!! Vicente: I know what you want, kids! I want to give each of you not one, but two pencils! Children: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Vicente: *crouches down* But for you Bea, since you’ve been very bright in doing your homework, I think you deserve more, so I will get you the biggest pencil I could find! :> :> :> :> (IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN) Bea: WOOOOW THANKS, VICENTE!!! *hugs him* (SKIPPING TO THE GROSS PART HEHEH MEDYO BORING YUNG IN BETWEEN I’LL DO THAT LATER) *knock on door Mrs. Tumpindo: You’re early tonight, Vicente. Come in, come in. Vicente: Good evening, Mrs. Tumpindo! I thought I’d get an early start helping with the kids’ homework tonight. Mrs. Tumpindo: Sounds great, I’ll just be upstairs watching the news if you need me. *goes upstairs Vicente: Good evening, Bea and CJ! Shall we begin doing your homework? CJ: Not yet pleaaaaaaaase. Our classmates have been showing off their new pencils! They’re all so big and colorful! We’re so envious!!! Vicente: Ask me again later, but first get me a glass of water please. CJ: But buy us more pencils, please, buy us more pencils!! *goes upstairs* Vicente: *holds Bea by the arm* Of course I will buy you more pencils, as many as you want. Bea: *giggles* Oh! Then I will tell my friends and they will envy me, for they don’t have as many or as pretty! *Vicente holds girl lightly in his arms, holding her under the armpits and held her to sit down on his lap* Vicente: What are your lessons for tomorrow? Bea: This one *points* But it’s easy anyway. Vicente: Go ahead and write and I will watch you. Bea: Don’t hold me on your lap, I’m very heavy, you will get tired. *Vicente shakes head*
