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By

Yury ‘Strike’ Klavdiev

Translated by

Dave White with Yury Urnov

We are young, we must be happy and not part ways.

Why should we care about the wars our parents undertook?

– Erich Maria Remarque, Time to Live and Time to Die

I dedicate this play to Stanley Tookie Williams, founder of the Crips, convicted and reclaimed. On the decree of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of the State of California, Stan was executed in 2005. He wrote books for kids.

– Yury ‘Strike’ Klavdiev

CHARACTERS:

BOY – eleven years old

BOY 2 – eleven years old

MAN – father of Boy

WOMAN – mother of Boy

ABU – big time drug wholesaler, black

JOHN – big time drug wholesaler, black

GRANDMOTHER – of Boy

GIRL – eleven years old

BLACK GUY

COP

SETTING:

Suburb of a provincial city in Russia.

A tough, cinder block and concrete neighborhood.

NOTE: A single punctuation mark as a line of dialogue represents a reaction.