SCENE FIVE

(Enter Alice in hooded sweater to classroom)

Teacher: Alanna! Put your hood down, you know that hats and hoods are against school policy. Just because you believe yourself to be above the rest of us does not make you an exception!

(Alice hesitantly pulls her hood down to reveal many bruises and scratches across her face)

Teacher: what are you waiting for? Do you expect me to show sympathy because your drug habits got you into a fight?

(Alice looks down and takes her seat, the other girls giggling)

Teacher: And would you please remove your sweater as well, I don’t want you hiding your crimes

(Alice looks up fearfully)

Teacher: go on

(Alice unzips her sweater and removes it, hanging it over the back of her chair, showing more bruises on the back of her neck and arms)

Teacher: my my, we HAVE been naughty, stand up so I can take a look at you

(Alice closes her eyes and stands up, revealing arms and wrists littered with cuts and bruises)

Teacher: well well, we’ll discuss this after class won’t we? Possibly with the principal?

(Alice shakes her head)

Teacher: well then I’ll just have to fail you on the test that you disrupted by your lateness, which, I’m sure you didn’t study for anyways, so you might as well leave now

(Alice leaves wiping her eyes on the back of her hand)

Sarah: We’ll see you after class

(Alice runs)

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ALICE: A quite teenage girl, often excluded and ridiculed by her classmates and teachers. She is frustrated and upset by this and has evidently been cutting herself, though she has hidden it well so far. Alice is very bright but is unable to show it because of a biased teacher and ridiculing classmates. She refuses to say the name of the scottish play (macbeth) because she has a love of theatrics.

SARAH: The leader of her pack of popular girls, she has a clear advantage over the other girls due to her cunning personality and her way of always getting what she wants. Unlike the members of her pack, she has some intellect which helps her to create plans for Alice's tormenting.

KATIE: Sarah's second in command, she is very direct and shows no mercy towards Alice. Katie's character is cruel and unfeeling.

NICKY: A bouncy teen, is very much in the 'in' crowd and fits the character of a 'ditzy blond' well. She is very absorbed in the life of a popular girl and has trouble acting outside of that. Follower of Sarah.

ALEX: Is clearly trying to model herself in Sarah's character, is a bit of a suck up. Very giggly. Also a member of Sarah's followers.
The actor playing sarah also plays the role of the principal in scene three.

MRS. D. : Alice's teacher who calls her by the wrong name 'Alanna'. She has a strong dislike for Alice and has a clear bias towards the more popular members of her class. In the final scene she plays a judge.

updated Jan 16 by A.B.