D'nai's Individual Showcase: Approaching your script - Cockroach by Sam Holcroft (Mmoma)

Facts about Mmoma

She’s African, Nigerian.
She was born in England
She’s a school student
Her science teacher is Beth
Lee cheated on Lea with her
She has a fight with Lea ‘Leah goes for her... biting and scratching and kicking...’ ...‘with the help of Danielle Leah pins Mmoma to a desk and pulls a clump of hair extension out her head.’
She was given a long term detention with Leah, Danielle, Davey and Lee ‘ You are all in detention for he foreseeable future’
She sits alone ‘Mmoma sits alone’
She’s the only one who bothers to take her book home
She speaks to an army costume and pretends it’s her boyfriend
She tries to kiss Davey ‘She moves to kiss him’
Her inspiration is Shirley Bassey
She wants to be a singer when she’s older ‘deep, right deep down in me is a singer’
She had a doll as a child and took her everywhere
She wants a boyfriend
She gets strangled by Davey ‘Davey encircles Mmoma’s throat with his hands...' 'Mmoma begins to slowly suffocate’
Danielle saves her from being strangled to death.

Opinions from other characters about Mmoma

· Lee: Nothing to me. Less than nothing: nobody. She is dead to me, Leah. Dead.

· Leah: Mmoma! Bitch!

· Leah: You bitch-whore get back here!

· Leah: Skank

· Leah: You are a liar

· Leah: You are a boyfriend-stealing, lying little whore.

· Leah: Fucking monkey

· Beth (their teacher): You’ll do well Mmoma

· Beth: You’re intelligent. You have an inquisitive mind.

· Beth: You could be a scientist

· Davey: You’ve got to find your own boyfriend

Mmoma’s personal opinions

She couldn’t sign up for the war ‘I couldn’t do that miss sign up’
She thinks the wars like cockroaches ‘It’s the biggest and strongest that going to get squashed’
She thinks this is a weak man war
She thinks Danielle’s beautiful
She thought she would die because she didn’t think Danielle would have it in her to save her
She thinks it’s nice that Beth has a fiancé to look after her
She thinks she stands out in a crowd
she thinks Shirley Bassey is the greatest singer of all time

What has just happened?

Before my monologue everyone has just left the detention class to go home after being lectured about exams and told to stop talking about boys being sent off to the war. ‘The light Narrows on BETH. She takes of her comfortable shoes and puts on her high heels. She takes out a bottle and sprays herself with perfume.’ Then the light extends to Mmoma. I explain how I forgot my books and then I ask ‘Your boyfriend miss... will he go?’I then talk about how I could never sign up for the war if I was a boy and wonder why others do in my monologue.

Where am I?

I am currently at school. I am in my teacher (Beth’s) classroom. ‘The stage is bare but for desks, a door and a window.’ But the window is broken by this point due to mine and Leah’s fight. Beth is sitting at her desk slumped in her chair and I have entered through the door and walked over to my desk to get my books.