Langarts Play *edited* (go back »)

Title of play: Hideout in Geylang by Stella Kon

 

Cast: Mr Chin – Edmund Tan

 Ah Chye – Celine Au

 Ah Kow – Lim Su Xin

 Lou Foo – Priscilla Poh

 Ah Ngow – Chen Hoe Meng

 

Script:

Lou Foo:          [shouting] Here we have him, tight in our hands, a Half-million-dollar-man,

safe in our hands!

 

Ah Kow:          Hey, Lou Foo, don’t shout so loud. Someone will hear you and come.

 

Lou Foo:          [snarling contemptuously at him] Ahh, shut up with your whining – This is

miles away from anywhere. No one will hear. I’m sick of you, Ah Kow,

always scared of this and that.

 

Ah Kow:          Brother, don’t say that – I was the one who hung around all day to

watch Chin’s movements. I watched him going in and out of his house,

going up and down, and then I told you when was the good time to grab

him.

 

Ah Chye:          And I hand the idea to make a phone call, to get his bodyguards out of the

way.

 

Lou Foo:          [turning savagely on them] You told! You had the great idea! Now that it’s

gone well you start to take credit! Do you know that you two are nothing;

without me? You cannot steal the coins from beggar who has no legs.

[threatens AH CHYE] You, Ah Chye, you think you are so smart: why don’t

you go and run a gang of your own and get out of mine?

 

Ah Chye:          No brother.

 

Lou Foo:          And Ah kow, you are cleaver to do many things. Maybe you think you are

Too cleaver to be my number two; maybe you think you should be number

one around here!

 

Ah Kow:          No, Lou Foo. You are the boss.

 

Ah Ngow:        [in his slow, stupid way] Lou Foo, don’t get angry. You are the leader. You are

are our big brother. All of us knows that.

 

Lou Foo:          [laughing harshly] Yup! Ah Ngow is the smartest one of the lot of you! I am

the leader. I am the boss. All of you better remember it and then you can

live longer. Ah Kow, go and make a phone call to his wife.

 

[AH CHYE exits to make the call. Returns to LOU FOO’s side and whispers something into his ear. ]

 

Lou Foo:          What! [Jumps up and move towards CHIN. Pulls off CHIN’s tape and CHIN awakes.]

Who are you then?

 

Mr Chin:           You will not be able to get any information out of me. I would rather die

than to pay ransom to thugs like you.people. I am old and is unable to live

much longer. However, you people have a bright future ahead of you and

it is wasteful to do things like this when you could be doing more useful

things like studying.

 

[AH KOW moves towards CHIN.]

 

Ah Kow:          So I gather that you wish to die? Fine. I will grant you that wish since you

do not wish to co-operate with us and have a longer life instead.

 

[AH KOW draws out dagger and slowly walks towards CHIN.]

 

Ah Chye:          Wait! We do not have to kill him kill him! He’s innocent! We could

threaten him with something so that we will he does not to inform the

police… right? Also, we had agreed before the execution of the kidnap

that it does not involve killing anyone in cold blood, and let alone an old

man.

 

Ah Ngow:        Yea! He did not do anything wrong. Besides, we can give him a very strict

warning to keep him from telling the police like threatening to kill

someone who is very important to him like his wife for instance. Also, he

is right. We do have a bright future ahead of us and we do not have to ruin

it by killing him.

 

Ah Kow:          No. He will have to die. I cannot risk him informing the police once we

releases him.

 

[AH KOW draws out his dagger from his pocket and tries to stab his prisoner to death. However, AH NGOW springs out from a corner and in front of the prisoner, hoping to stop the dagger on time but was too late. The dagger stabs AH NGOW instead of the prisoner]

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