It Depends on Who’s Looking

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This was written for and performed at a conference of multiethnic campus ministers, where the topic was identity, ethnicity, and ministry. I worked with Summer Malepeai, a Samoan-American, and Daniel Jones, an Anglo-American, to create this script. Jess, the third character, is Chinese-Pilipino.

This is an example of a “Weave” – a technique I developed and use to create the impression of the story rather than its line. Instead of hearing an event-to-event recollection, the hearer gets the impression and feel of the story and hopefully its meaning as well. The lines are designed to overlap.

If you are interested in this kind of script I recommend that you contact me to design one specifically for your context and your people, so actors can play themselves as they did when this one was performed.

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Excerpt:

 

Lines are traded in order but with rapid pace and some overlap. Keep the pace up.

 

Daniel: I don’t want the power

Jess: I wonder what people think

Summer: It depends on who’s looking

 

Being a white guy

The first time they see me

They get this confused look

 

Euro-mutt

Something brown

Mistaken for all sorts of things

 

Plain, white-bread

Do they think what they say,

Some days I’m white, sometimes not

 

Anglo, WASP, whatever

Which is always

It’s how I dress, who I’m with

 

Do I have ethnicity?

Where are you from?

So, what are you?

 

Am I an ethnic person?

And I answer,

Ohio

 

I don’t know what to say

Where does my family come from?

And they’re always so surprised “Samoan and Portuguese,” in that order

 

What does it mean…does it matter?

Because they assume

Or sometimes just “Half-Samoan”

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