“Just one more question Mr. Pulami. When can you start?” and stands up and shakes his hand. The directors tell Waga that they still must interview the rest of the applicants and that he is perhaps not right for the job as he is a refugee. These somewhat racist comments force Mr. Waga to ask Mr. Pulami to leave the room and he explains to them how he is a refugee and how his grandfather started the business they are interviewing job applicants to help run. At this point we included the aspect of marking the moment as Mr. Waga’s volume reaches a high and eventually when Dan Holmes, one of the director’s says, “I’m sorry Mr. Waga…” and pronounces Waga as it reads.
“For the last time it’s Waga!” Here is the freeze frame, with Mr. Holmes backing away from Mr. Waga who is stood up in Mr. Booth’s face pointing a finger and looking extremely angry. Here enter Ludwig Waga, grandfather of Peter Waga and the character who also played Mr. Nudd. Ludwig clicks his finger and immediately at this point the directors and Head C.E.O. move back into action and that character who played Mr. Pulami enters from when he was asked to leave the interviewing room. This freeze frame of course is a flash back. It is of Ludwig and his employees setting up the A.G.M for his tenth year running the business of ‘Waga & Waga Ltd.’. This is an ideal way of creating the room change also, as Ludwig stands at the back of the stage and instructs each of his employees to move tables or chairs in different places to prepare for the A.G.M. This allows a scene change and also a reasonably good indication to whom Ludwig Waga is and his status. The fact that all of his employees called him ‘Wagga’ and his reply was always, “For the last time it’s Waga!” This allows the audience to relate to the past and present element and realize exactly what is going on. Mr. L. Waga then went on to describe how happy he was that the company was doing so well and that how he wishes to maintain the moral and ideal of the company etc.
The change of character in our plot was how Mr. P. Waga changed considerably because initially in the play, he was well spoken and very respectful and obviously highly intelligent. He lost his temper however and began to shout and lose all composure and patience with his fellow employees. This is because of strong racism and discrimination as the two British interviewers attempted to cheat him out of the job because he was a refugee, as was Peter Waga, which they were unaware of.
One of our convincing characters was Ludwig I thought because he had a good strong speech towards the end which was both emotional and highly believable. It was clearly expressed. L. Waga contributed nicely to the plot because he created a background for the entirety of the plot. Every single one of his lines was very important during the scene he was in and because he did a speech and was not interrupted as opposed to a debate or a conversation, the audience will have paid attention to his words more. This speech comes to a climax towards the end as his volume increases and he begins to stand up in triumph and pride for his company’s wellbeing and gratitude to all of his employees’ hard work input. He was somewhat arrogant before he sat down at his seat and did the monologue at the A.G.M. which we thought was a somewhat typical business leader or manager. We thought that Peter Waga would be the ideal character whose attitude changes as it would be easily convincing to the audience that he gets so upset about racial discrimination.
The character of Bob Nudd displays a huge amount of British stereo typicality we thought and would be the ideal person to be compared to Mr. Pulami as he was the exact opposite of every one of Mustafa’s qualities.
The main part of our play when we marked the moment the most was Mr. L. Waga’s monologue. It was a key element of our performance and helped produce a sufficient atmosphere:
(Ludwig Waga sits towards the back of the stage on a desk of his own and in front of him there are three rows of chairs in a two-by-three formation. It is silent.)
Ludwig: (calmly) Hello and the best of mornings to you all ladies and gentlemen.
(There is a faint mumbling of polite laughs and quite murmurs.)
It is thoroughly a pleasure to be here on such a fine June morning. Approximately twelve years ago to this day, (polite giggles throughout the audience) me and my partner and brother, Dittmer Waga, started up this business. In January 1938, we were both forced to emigrate at the age of only ten years old. (Increase in Ludwig’s volume and decrease in the audience and fellow workers’) We both went to school and believe me it was not easy. (Ludwig’s voice becomes yet more loud and clear.) For eight solid years we struggled through an extremely difficult education, and then we went on to further educations. For a long period after the war had finished, we had absolutely nothing! But because one person gave us a tiny chance and put in a little faith into us, we are here now! (A tear runs down Ludwig’s face, and he is shaking somewhat). And I thank that person very much….but I also thank you people. It is down to you people that I can finally say our profits this year have increased one hundred percent since last year. (Gasps of amazement from the audience followed by a short round of applause, followed by L. Waga clenching his fist and pushing his elbow against the top of the desk) Not only do I thank you, but I praise each and every one of you for your essential accuracy, team work, input to the company, and mainly your truly fantastic optimism. (Faint cheer from all of the audience and a series of claps throughout next speech as Waga stands up and holds his clenched fist clearly in the air.) All I have left to say is I hope to maintain and to a certain degree, improve and progress on the moral and ideal there is at this high flying company for the next decade, (large cheers abruptly stopped by Waga’s outspread hand indicating silence,) and for many more years after that! (Audience all jump to their feet with fists clenched in triumph and pride followed by an enormous cheer which goes on for about ten seconds. Exit all actors.)
This was definitely the most effective part of the script. We wanted our audience to feel like part of the meeting and feel the same triumph and pride that the employees did and the way the scene was set out enabled them to do this as much as physically possible. The high emotions that we produced via his speech were very good and we succeeded in what we were trying to achieve.
