please shut up thank you
PLEASE, SHUT UP, THANK YOU (onstage are bank customers, including a child – sitting on stage with hands on their heads) (Bank worker is sitting behind the desk) (money bags are lying on the floor) (SFX – police sirens) (Ben and Chris storm in, holding guns) (Ben paces the room, very agitated and angry, getting angrier and angrier whenever Chris speaks) Ben: (stocking/woolly hat over head) Just shut up! Chris: (stocking/woolly hat over head) Look, I’m sure- Ben: Shut up Chris! Chris: Listen, its not- Ben: Shut up! Chris: They might not- Ben: Shut up! Chris: If they do then- Ben: SHUT UP! ... (silence again) (Ben walks up to a customer and points the gun to her head) Ben: I SAID, TELL ME! ... We only came here to rob a bloody bank, and this is what we end up with. ... ) Ben: Shut up! ... Please- Ben: Shut up! ... Ben: Shut up! ... Get them back up! ... Customer: She’s got a point you know- Ben: Shut up! Chris: Please can we let them go? ... (throws it over to the child) Child: Thank yoooooooou. ... And don’t swear so much please. Ben: I don’t know, I can just- (walks up to Chris) What do you think you’re doing? ... (Chris exits) (Ben sits down on the chair) Ben: Fuck fuck fuck…what am I gonna do… Customer: You could let us go… Ben: Shut up! ... Ben: Didn’t I just tell you to shut up? ... Ben: Shut up! ... Just give up. ... One fucked up- Ben: Shut up! ... Ben: Shut up! ... Ben: Shut up! Chris: One fucking fucked up- Ben: (hysterical, screaming, shouting, yelling, psychopathic style, that kinda stuff) SHUT UP!