THEATRE PLAY

(Jack´s mom is on stage, looking for something. She even looks in the audience)

-Jack´s mom: Have you seen Jack? -(Without waiting and screaming)- Jack! Oh, for Good sake, where is this lazy boy? Jack!

She continues on her searching while we can see Jack peeping out of a table.

-Jack: Is she gone? Oh, thanks God! She wanted to take me to school. And I hate it! It is so boring and tiring, don´t you think? I prefer to relax and do nothing all day long.

(He lays on the table and closes his eyes. A man appears on scene)

-Man: (to the audience) Oh, look at that poor and lazy boy. He is not in the school, so he hardly knows anything. I think I can cheat him.

-Man: (Now approaching Jack) Hello, dear fellow!

(Meanwhile, in the other part of the stage, Jack´s mom is talking to her neighbour)

-Jack´s mom: This lazy boy of mine! He must go to school.

-Neighbour: Has he disappeared again?

-Jack´s mom: You can bet that! He does not understand the importance of going to the school. It seems like he wants to be a fool all his life.

-Neighbour: He is only a kid…

-Jack´s mom: Let me find it! And he will fly to school.

(The man has approached Jack and he is smiling to him)

-Man: Don´t you like school, then?

-Jack: I think it is completely not necessary.

-Man: Unnecessary, of course.

-Jack: I am old enough to work on the farm. But my mom doesn´t want me to. She says that I need to know language and mathe… mathe…

-Man: Maths?

-Jack: That is! Did you go to school when you were my age?

-Man: (Proudly) To the best one! But you don´t need that. There is nothing useful in going to school.

-Jack: Right!  I can know maths by counting sheep, language by speaking with the shepherd and geography… what is that?

-Man: Learning about the world, countries, continents, other people and its culture…

-Jack: Well, I am not going to go anywhere, so I do not need that geography.

-Man: Well boy, everybody needs to learn…

TO BE CONTINUED