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Start: All I want is to be a civil serva...

Joaquim

Mud, River, Stone

Lynn Nottage

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 3
Time & Place
An old hotel in South East Africa
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: All I want is to be a civil servant, have a suit and ride the bus to my office building. Seven stories, the tallest office building in the city. Have a telephone and an ink pen. A commode. I could have read good, but the war came to my village.

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End: I was a good soldier. Do you know what it means to have been a good soldier? I was told that things would be better if we won. That the man with the glorious voice spoke the truth,

Nottage, Lynn, Crumbs from the Table of Joy and other plays, Theatre Communications Group, 2004, p. 230.

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