Late Coming Bones

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Late Coming Bones

SCENE THREE (Trough – dreams washing)

MARK ALEM:
Mother! Mother!
THE OLD WOMAN III:
Gjorg, my son! My dear child. Gjo-oorg!
THE OLD WOMAN II:
Keep strong, my mother, don’t be afraid…
THE OLD WOMAN III:
That’s me, Gjorg. O, Gjorg Uraj
THE OLD WOMAN I:
That’s me, I’m your mother!
THE OLD WOMAN II:
Gjorg, Gjo-o-rg!
THE OLD WOMAN III:
Gjorg, O Gjorg Uraj… O, Gjorg, my son!
MARK ALEM:
Mother! Is this you? Mother! Mother! Is this my house?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Come, Mark Alem, my dear! Come into the trough because I’m going to wash you. I’ll wash you out of the dreams. I’ll clean your eyes of what you’ve been seeing beyond time, that which has has happened five hundred years ago. Come, Mark! Come. Come my son!
MARK ALEM:
Mother! Mother! I can’t recognise you. I don’t see you clearly because it is dark in my dream. Why did you dress yourself like that? Are you perhaps hiding yourself from somebody?
THE OLD WOMEN III:
Come, come… I’ll take you out of any dream’s darkness. You are Dream’s Interpreter in the Palace and it’s not good for you to be a dreamer at the same time.
MARK ALEM:
Keep strong mo-o-ther, don’t be afraid!
OLD WOMEN I, II, III;
Oh, ho-ho… o, men, o men!
Run at the spring!
Help Gjorg Alem Urajt of the Qyprilians
Because he is finished, he burnt out for us
For us, o blessed, who so much wanted our
Language, homeland and religion!
MARK ALEM:
Everything began in the year of 1992. Yes. In the year of 1992. The leader of the Gagauses stood up and said: The third Gagausian army is in a state of full mobilization to intervene in Bosnia. If Serbs attack Bosnia. We are forced to “PREVENT” help from reaching the Moslem brothers.
THE OLD WOMAN I:
We don’t say, “prevent the help”, we say, “to help them”.
MARK ALEM:
Yes. The third Army, the sixth corpus. In Gagaussiti, the capital of Gagaustan, people burst into demonstrations. The Gagaus people were demanding the right to swim across the Aegean Sea, the Ion Sea, the Adriatic Sea and to rush into Sarajevo, to stop the help for their brothers… The main thing was to make Bosnians… to encourage them. So, you begin first, and then, and then, and then… where have you ever seen anything like swimming across three seas. First of all your cartridge becomes wet… your gunpowder becomes mash. Then, on the other side, America. America sets an ambush to the sea with its Seventh Fleet. To prevent the flow of weapons into Bosnia. But who… America? All Gagausian brotherhood all over the world has stood up…
THE OLD WOMAN II:
It’s enough, stop it, you don’t know what are you saying…
MARK ALEM:
Ha?!
O, Albania, let me wing at you
Nobody is allowed to touch your border…
Those from there, with three fingers up, say that Vlora is
Belgrade, while those from here say: Tetovo is little Istanbul.
THE OLD WOMAN III
Sh! Sh! Shut up!
MARK ALEM:
Why… the religion?! Do you know what religion is?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Sit … sit! How did you come to religion now?!
MARK ALEM:
Those from Belgrade… I wanted to say from Vlora, let them say whatever they want, let them say that Tetovo is little Istanbul…
THE OLD WOMAN II:
It can’t be that you want to become a Catholic, a?
MARK ALEM:
Look, honest to Allah… should I? Should I? Look, honest to Allah… A, mother?! Who said that we should become Catholics, a?!
THE OLD WOMAN II:
And Bardhi, and Budi…
THE OLD WOMAN I:
And Kazazi, and Fishta…
THE OLD WOMAN III:
And Repishta, and Plasari…
MARK ALEM:
And Scanderbeg? What has he said regarding this?
THE OLD WOMAN III:
… Scanderbeg, a? The one that was supported by Vatican to fight against the Moslems, a?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
What has he said?
MARK ALEM:
Be careful, brothers, he has said! Don’t become Greek and Serbs. Bulgarians are Orthodox, and because they are Orthodox they became Romanians. The Orthodox religion has connected them with Romanians. Then Greeks. Greeks are Orthodox and they became Serbs, and Orthodox Serbs became Macedonians, Orthodox Macedonians have just begun to become Macedonians. Only Albanians have remained Albanians. If they had been Catholics, they would have become Italians. If they had been Orthodox, Albanians would have become Greeks, and if they had been Mohammedans, they wouldn’t have become Turks. We have remained Vlora and Tetovo. Religion was re-discovered by democracy in the year of 1992. ..
THE OLD WOMAN II:
What has happened in the year of 1992?
MARK ALEM:
At that time I kissed my feet, I interpreted my own dream. Then I wasn’t … At that time I wasn’t still … crazy. I got employed in the Palace as an interpreter. I kissed my feet and wrote. The World War III will be sparked by religion. Leaders are afraid of prophecies of Nostradamus. An Arabian will rise and will fuck the whole world. Period. Nostradamus said… everything happened as Nostradamus had said. I wanted to tell Albanians this: Albanians, my brothers! NATO Pact should be reinforced in order to destroy fundamentalism and Communism in the Balkans at their roots… but, leave this nonsense. Listen only to Pasho Vasa, religion of the Albanians is Albanianism!
THE OLD WOMAN III:
Yes, but, Pasho Vasa…
MARK ALEM:
Yes, yes… Before “religion of the Albanians is the Albaniasm” Pasho Vasa had said: leave churches and mosques.
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Was Pasho Vasa an Enverist, a?
MARK ALEM:
No, not an enverist. But he also wasn’t a democrat. Religion was discovered by the democracy. Religion is the most honest and intimate human feeling. Is there any worse thing than to forbid a man from believing in God? Finally, you can’t forbid it … because God brakes your neck as,… as… As…
THE OLD WOMAN III:
As to whom?
MARK ALEM:
As to Bajram Curi… for instance.
OLD WOMEN I, II, III:
O, Mark Alem!
O, Mark Alem!
O, Mark Alem!
MARK ALEM:
Haaaaaa! Naaaaa!
OLD WOMEN I, II, III:
Uuuuuuaaaaaa!
THE OFFICIAL:
Did you put an oar grass into the water?
THE OLD WOMAN II:
Yes, master, yes.
THE OFFICIAL:
That’s how it is! Hop-hop, hop-hop, he comes on his mind. Are you now OK?
MARK ALEM:
Yeees!
THE OFFICIAL:
You should wash him every day like this, naked. To give him a drink of the water with which you have rinsed the talisman’s colour. Burn out one of his books every day. Make his meal with the black sponge of his book … its for sure that he’ll be cured. Do you feel better or not? Do you still dream? Speak! Does he dream? Did he tell you any dream?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
In his dream he says that they call him Gjorg Uraj, when se is awake he says that they call him Mark Alem.
THE OFFICIAL:
Where did this Gjorg Uraj come now from… Ura,urajt. A, Gjoke-a?
THE OLD WOMAN II:
I don’t know about Gjoke… but Ura, Uraj… it seems to me that this has something to do with the Qyprelians.
THE OFFICIAL:
Oh my god, he is constantly reading others’ dreams and interpreting them. Then he identifies himself with them.
THE OLD WOMAN II:
We should tie this big horse like a baby?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Since babies are born first as Moslems… and afterwards as Albanians.
THE OLD WOMAN II:
And if it is born as a Catholic… will it become an Albanian when it grows up?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
I know that if an Orthodox baby dies without being baptised, it is buried out in the fields and they are not admitted in the cemeteries of people who died with a religion.
THE OLD WOMAN III:
This horse here… which religion does he have?
THE OLD WOMAN I:
He came out of the Palace of Dreams with wrong interpretations, his name was mixed up, once Gjorg, then Alem… once Qyprilli, then Uraj. It should first, as a baby, be born as it is required by religion and then we’ll find the language of his nation.
THE OLD WOMAN II:
How long does it take?
THE OLD WOMAN:
Already five hundred years.
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Hey, hay. I’m rocking you Let you become a chief of the village.
THE OLD WOMAN II:
… a chief of the village needs a white cap on his head, eeej!
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Let him, o, let him put it!
THE OLD WOMAN II:
Sh, sh, he felt asleep. Let’s go!
THE OLD WOMAN I:
Let’s go.

AuthorTeki Derviši
2018-08-21T17:23:59+00:00 April 1st, 1999|Categories: Play, Blesok no. 08, Theatre/Film|0 Comments