Ibrahim Multiple Casualty Incident

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-78850-773-8
Verlag: Nick Hern Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten

Reihe: NHB Modern Plays

Here, in a London training centre, people prepare to help strangers on another side of the world. There, a city is burning. Here, Sarah gets a meal deal. There, people are in danger. Here, Khaled watches a training video. There, there are men with guns. Here, Sarah and Khaled flirt with each other. There, an aid worker looks after a refugee. Suddenly - here becomes there. In Sami Ibrahim's play Multiple Casualty Incident, roleplay, desire and compassion intertwine, revealing the limits of help, the beginnings of harm and the complexities of humanitarian work. It was first performed at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.

Sami Ibrahim is a writer from London. His plays include: Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard Theatre, London, 2024); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Paines Plough / Rose Theatre, Kingston / Gate Theatre, London, 2022); two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2022; winner of the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019); Metamorphoses, co-written with Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz, after Ovid (Shakespeare's Globe, 2021); Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her (2018 VAULT Festival, London); Iron Dome Fog Dome (The Yard, London, 2017) and Force of Trump (Brockley Jack). He has worked at the Almeida Theatre as a member of their Creative Board, developing and producing From the Ground Up, a piece of immersive theatre. (Author photo by Ali Wright)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ibrahim, Sami

Leseproben

NICKI

KHALED.

NICKI I can get you a tea or a coffee or…

KHALED I’m good.

Thanks.

NICKI They should’ve told me last week.

KHALED It’s no problem.

NICKI Well I’m sorry.

About that.

I wanted to say there’s a world where you take time off.

KHALED I don’t need time off.

NICKI Okay.

NICKI

I’m just trying to think of

Before they get here

KHALED –

NICKI As in it’s not the same this week, you know, you’ve got to be up for throwing yourself in, trying stuff out.

KHALED I get that.

NICKI Which is great.

KHALED And I’m doing ?ne, I don’t need people sticking their nose in.

NICKI No one’s sticking their nose in, it’s

NICKI

KHALED You can take it, I don’t mind.

NICKI It can wait.

KHALED –

NICKI Look, I’m not trying to tell you what to do but

I think

The more people you have around to…

You know, the easier it’ll be.

And obviously that can be dif?cult.

KHALED Dif?cult?

NICKI Sometimes. But maybe you could do with, I don’t know

You know what, is that alright?

NICKI

Hey. Yeah, uh-huh, look. I’m about to

–

KHALED

SARAH

SARAH Hey.

KHALED Hi.

SARAH Good weekend.

KHALED Fine.

SARAH Get up to anything.

KHALED Not much. You?

SARAH Not much either.

KHALED Um. I’m just gonna

KHALED SARAH

DAN

DAN All good all good?

SARAH Morning.

DAN Everyone else have a shit weekend?

DAN

I spent a whole Saturday getting a verruca burnt off my foot. I couldn’t get a proper view but they sort of boil it with this needle thing and then scoop it out, sort of looks like a child’s tooth covered in blood. My advice would be never get a fucking verruca, they might as well have stuck my foot in acid, I don’t know why they don’t give you anaesthetic. Honestly, I spent Sunday limping up to the big Asda and back, some guy dropped ?fty p in my coffee cup cos he thought I was homeless.

Hey man.

KHALED Hey.

DAN My foot’s ?ne now.

Where is she?

KHALED Taking a call.

DAN SARAH KHALED

NICKI

NICKI Right, sorry, I’m in the room – how’s everyone doing?

NICKI

Who’s got the time?

SARAH Almost ten.

NICKI Perfecto. So we should start with

NICKI

Ah. Has anyone heard from her?

SARAH Not since Friday.

NICKI Okay, um

DAN Should someone message her?

NICKI No. That’s ?ne. She’ll have to catch up.

*

SARAH Act, react, re?ect.

DAN Someone’s done the homework.

NICKI We do it, we get it wrong, we discuss. Dan.

DAN What?

NICKI The point is to engage, there are no right answers.

DAN Just stupid answers.

NICKI And if you give a stupid answer then we do it again. And again. And again because when you’re in the middle of it all, this has to be clockwork, there’s no ?guring things out.

Especially where you’ll be.

Especially now.

Let’s start with an exercise.

*

KHALED SARAH NICKI

DAN

DAN What time are we back?

Hello?

NICKI Ten minutes.

DAN Ten minutes. Does anyone have a phone charger?

*

SARAH I would tell the patient directly.

NICKI She has dementia, she struggles to understand.

SARAH I would still use the translator, I would make it clear.

NICKI And if her son’s trying to ?nd out what’s happening.

SARAH It’s meant to stay con?dential.

NICKI But if she’s not listening, if it needs to happen now.

SARAH I’d still use the translator.

NICKI If she refuses.

SARAH Then I’d ask her if I can tell the son.

NICKI If he refuses.

SARAH He wouldn’t.

NICKI He doesn’t want his mum’s leg being sawn off.

SARAH I would explain the situation clearly and

NICKI And if he’s shouting and his mother is scared and wailing and you need the leg to be removed before an infection spreads, how are you making them listen?

SARAH

Sarah?

*

SARAH KHALED DAN

SARAH Shit.

DAN You alright?

SARAH I make a sandwich every day, every day I forget it.

SARAH

Anyone need anything from the shop.

KHALED Have this half.

SARAH Oh. Really?

KHALED Yeah.

SARAH What about you?

KHALEDI’m not too hungry.

KHALED

Ploughman’s no mayo. Fell on the ?oor but otherwise it’s ?ne.

SARAH KHALED.

SARAH Thanks.

DAN I’ve got crisps.

SARAH It’s alright.

DAN Always carry a spare Monster Munch.

SARAH I’m good. Cheers.

DAN Suit yourself.

SARAH KHALED.

SARAH I owe you one.

KHALED Nah, don’t worry.

SARAH It’s, um, it’s delicious.

KHALED Tesco Meal Deal.

SARAH You can tell – very gourmet.

KHALED

Sorry, that’s such a dorky joke.

KHALED I like a dorky joke.

DAN

DAN I need a piss.

–

KHALED Did that make you lose your appetite too?

SARAH

SARAH Um, actually

I was gonna

Sorry.

No.

You go.

KHALED So um

Oh.

It’s ?ne.

KHALED No, you go.

SARAH I just didn’t know if… like I thought I might get a text. From you.

KHALED Oh.

SARAH Not that you had to.

KHALED I would’ve but SARAH It’s really ?ne.

KHALED I meant to but I didn’t really know if you actually wanted me to or

SARAH I did.

KHALED Right.

SARAH Cos it might’ve been nice. If you weren’t up to much.

KHALED Yeah.

SARAH Maybe next time.

*

NICKI Her father’s refusing entry.

NICKI KHALED

She’s fourteen, she’s pregnant,...