Page 17 - Demo

(BASS slaps the table and stomp’s his foot again)
BASS Whip you good. Fed up!
FED UP!
“Look over yonder.”
LEVI
(BASS stands walks center singing an old slave work song... “Look Over Yonder”)
BASS
(LEVI joins BASS singing - slowing walking over towards him)
LEVI
“Hot sun... really tunr’n over. “
BASS “And it wont go down....
LEVI/BASS ...oh my lawd it wont go down.”
(BASS and LEVI both stare in the distance. In thought. Shamed. Hurt. SILENCE)
LEVI
We’d sing that digging ditches in that heat sun up sun down.
BASS
Bring’n back memories I thought I had forgotten.
(THUNDER ROLL)
LEVI
After you ran It was different in that camp. Everyone had a
new energy. A new purpose to live. No one thought you made it-butitwasthegullyouhadtojustupanddoit. We were all proud to be a Negro that day. How’d you get out.
BASS
Stayed low. Moved at night. Escaped over here to the
territory.
15.