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Lynette and Callum are brother and sister. Several years previously, Lynette was brutally attacked by a gang of Noughts and left with minor brain damage. She is only just coming to terms with the fact that she is now 20 and has lost nearly 3 years of her life. After the attack, she believed that she was black, like her boyfriend of the time, like her attackers, and like the dominant social class. Realizing that she is, in fact, white, with little to live for has filled her with a profound
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START: CALLUM (to audience). Since Lynny and Jude鈥檚 fight, neither of them had spoken to each other. Not a word. That evening, as I was finishing my homework, there was a knock at my bedroom door鈥�
LYNETTE. It鈥檚 me. Can I come in?
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END: LYNETTE. Just remember, when you鈥檙e floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles burst. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.
Malorie Blackman & Dominic Cooke, Noughts & Crosses, NHM Modern Plays, electronic edition, 2014, pp.36-39.
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