Take Ten II

Chapter One

ANTIGONE'S RED

Chiori Miyagawa

Characters

ANTIGONE: Japanese American woman in her early thirties.

ISMENE: Antigone's younger sister.

TADASHI: Japanese American man in his early thirties.

BRIAN: Caucasian man, Ismene's husband.

GUARD: Caucasian man.

TIME: 1942.

PLACE: Manzanar, California.

PROLOGUE

ANTIGONE: With my bare hands I dug the dry earth and covered my lover's corpse with dirt and tears. The desert land is cruel to those who want to bury loved ones. My nails ripped from my fingers. I made an offering of my blood. Antigone's lover's grave is red. That was my last red.

(ANTIGONE takes a long red ribbon out of her pocket. She holds the ribbon up vertically, and with a pair of scissors, cuts the ribbon in half. The bottom half falls to the floor. Lights down.)

SCENE 1

(Manzanar, California. One of the sites of the relocation camps for Japanese Americans during World War II. 1942.)

ANTIGONE: Manzanar, California. The dust storms consume our days. We breathe and eat the sand which f ... read full excerpt from: Take Ten II ebook