Sink or Swim Anti-Bullying Assembly
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Anti-Bullying Assembly Anti-Bullying Assembly Focusing on Social Media This script is written for six performers and is minimal in its production requirements so that it can be performed for Year Group Assemblies in amore intimate environment. [Music – The xx /Intro / 5 Actors are evenly spaced as solitary figures –Upstage, they are engaged in texting and using their mobile phones, oblivious to everyone else, a solitary figure stands centre stage. Film projection of a swimming pool/under water imagery [Speedo – You Tube], central figure begins to slowly mime getting changed for swimming and puts on a pair of goggles, as the mime progresses the other five actors take note of their prescience and begin to menacingly move in as a group. Their gestures are sneering and mocking and the central figure struggles with the swimming and diving, climaxing with the group filming it on their phones] [Music stops as central figure freefalls and a sound collage can be heard] Voice 1- Oh my God! Voice 2- Blubber! Voice 3- The shame of it! Voice 4- Chunks Ville! Voice 5- Belly is going to get you! Voice 1- Swim, Forest, Swim! Voice 2- Did your shorts eat your arse? Voice 3 – Watch out, Tsunami! Voice 4- Does it float or sink? Voice 5- You should be banned from public places! [Cruel laughter and freeze frame surrounding the central figure] Voice 6- I’d gone to the pool to get fit. It was the evening session, I like swimming, I can shut everything out underwater, it’s quiet and calm, room to move and think. I thought I was safe but I hadn’t banked on the rain and wind bringing the gang in from the park to seek out the warmth of the leisure centre and I hadn’t banked on them seeing me through the glass windows at the coke machine. I didn’t see them at first, I heard a faint drumming, a banging sound, heard it momentarily as I came up for breath, thought it was the blood pumping in my head after all those lengths. I made the mistake of getting out, to take a dive, I had to walk the length of the pool then that’s when I saw them, hammering the windows like monkeys in a cage, mocking and jeering, I felt so exposed, so helpless, I panicked, ran up the steps and jumped in, wanting the water to swallow me up… Voice 1- Bellyflop! Voice 2- Eat my shorts! Voice 3- Buster Voice 4- Clear the pool Voice 5- Got it! [Holds up his phone] You’ve been framed! Voice 1- Nice one Voice 2- Let me see! Voice 5- I’ll send it to you Voice 3- And to me Voice 4- To be enjoyed time and time again [Loud laughter –Music /Voice 6- removes their goggles] Voice 6- To be honest I had a shower, got changed and went home and didn’t think too much more about it, they were best avoided, you knew where they hung out, back of the bus, the park, radiators in the canteen, best left alone…unless they came looking for you [Gang in a group at the radiator] Voice 1- It’s genius! Voice 2- How many hits? Voice 3- It’s gone viral Voice 4- What’s it called? Voice 5- Tom Daley! Splash! Voice 4- No, seriously what’s it called Voice 5- The Creature of the Deep! Voice 1- He’s put music and everything to it, it’s hilarious Voice 2- There’s even a petition tagged to it to ban him from the pool in the interest of public safety Voice 3- Genius! Voice 4- There he is, the star of the show! Voice 5- The Little Mermaid! [All turn and laugh as Voice 6 enters the space/ slow motion under the Voice 6] Voice 6- I didn’t get to check my Facebook until I got home. A friend had tagged it to me. A video of me getting out of the pool, walking along the side and climbing up the steps and belly flopping in. I must have watched that clip ten times, like an out of body experience, wanting to look away but not being able to, I didn’t realise I looked that bad, they’d slowed it down, put music over it, I felt sick… But the comments were worse; the amount of people who’d liked it and written nasty things, vicious things… Voice 1- I’m not getting into the pool with that! Voice 2- He should be banned from PE Voice 3- What a saddo! Voice 4 – Drowning is too good for him Voice 5- Let’s get him… Voice 6- On and on and on, the comments and the likes flooded in, tagged and sent on, by midnight 1,056 hits – that’s twice as many kids in our school … [Alarm – Voices become the chorus of calls to get up for school] Voice 1- Are you up? Voice 2- You’re going to be late! Voice 3- You’ve got ten minutes then I’m leaving … Voice 4- He was probably up half the night on that computer Voice 5- We are going, car NOW! Voice 6- I couldn’t move, I was full of shame and I couldn’t get my head off the pillow, I wanted to scream, hit and shout and rage and wipe that video from every screen but it was too late for that …I was a laughing stock, a figure of hate, people wanted me dead, thought the world would be a better place without me… [Conscience Alley – Voices of advice] Voice 1- Tell your mum and dad Voice 6 – Then I’d have to show it to them Voice 2- Tell a teacher Voice 6- Not an option Voice 3 – What about a friend Voice 6- Can’t trust anyone Voice 4- Family member? Voice 6- It’ll make it worse Voice 5- Anti-Bullying Ambassador Voice 6- [Silence] Voice 5- Chances are, they’ll know already… Voice 6- So there’s a door and it’s always open and if you don’t want to say it, you can write it, and they get it because they’re our age and they can help, Voice 1- Alright Voice 2- Come in Voice 3- Sit down Voice 4- You ok? Voice 5- You’re not Voice 1- You can just sit Voice 2- You don’t have to talk Voice 3- They’re cowards Voice 4- Easy to have an opinion behind a keyboard Voice 5- Nothing is as bad as it seems Voice 6- Nothing is as bad when you’re not alone [Actors move back to original positions engaging in solitary texting] [Music - The xx Track 2 VCR - Speedo Video of swimmer in the pool -Voice 6- Puts his goggles on again and begins the slow motion swimming] I’m back in the pool, doing more lengths than I’ve ever done, I’m stronger than I’ve ever been, they didn’t beat me, they don’t know me, the Ambassadors helped, they helped me put it all behind me, helped me face another day, drown out the bullies. 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