Play about machismo

characters)
Título: “Un macho muy dócil”

Autora: Clara Pérez

3 personajes:

1. Fausto: Machista man

[Link]: Fausto's buddy.

3. Mara: Fausto's wife.

UNIQUE ACT

Setting: A song
Introduction: The singer is cleaning the tables of the cantina that is still closed, when
Fausto arrives very cheerful.

Fausto (Speaking loudly and very animated): Hello buddy, how are you doing? Pour me a drink that
I have a dry throat.

Bartender (Making a face): Buddy, it's 11 in the morning, the bar is

Closed, don't you see that I am cleaning?

Fausto (mocking his buddy): Buddy, you look like an old lady cleaning tables, hire someone.
woman who cleans, men are not here to mop.

Bartender (smiling wearily): Stop talking nonsense, buddy, because in the town...
He says that you even make the beds when the friend gets tough.

Fausto (making an impressed face): Who said that? I am a macho buddy, I do not...
I do old people's things, like cleaning and chores; that's for them, that's why God brought them into the world.
To serve us!

Bartender (shaking his head disapprovingly): You pretend to have stayed in the past, buddy,
now with all that about feminism and equality, the woman cleans if she wants to, if not, she assigns the husband, like it
they put you.

Fausto (annoyed): Look, buddy, just pour me a drink and stop repeating the gossip.
In the village, I am in charge in my house, and if my wife doesn't like it, she has to deal with it. When a woman gets married,
She knows she has to obey her husband, otherwise she can just keep dressing saints.

Bartender (laughing more heartily): What silly things you're saying, buddy, surely you're coming to...
spend the money for the groceries, I don't want problems with comadre Mara, so it's better to go
to do your errand and don't come to spend money here.

Fausto (raising his voice): And who told you that Mara can tell me what to do with
The money? It's obvious that your wife keeps you on a tight leash, my friend. I feel sorry for you.
Bartender (mocking): Yes, buddy, how can I tell you, my wife keeps me well under control.
At least it doesn't hit me, that is something to be grateful for.

Fausto: Serve me the drink then. Are you going to spend the whole morning talking nonsense instead of serving me?

Bartender: Well buddy, but I won't take responsibility if the comadre gets upset, you do.
blame it.

The bartender serves the drink and when he is about to bring it to Fausto, a woman enters screaming his name.

Mara (shouting and in a threatening tone) Fausto! Can you tell me what the hell you are doing in the...
canteen?

Fausto (petrified and with his eyes wide open in astonishment, still with his back turned, answers in a voice
Very low) Love, what are you doing here?

Mara (not stopping to speak loudly and very upset): That's what I ask, what are you doing here? I...
I sent to buy food for the pigs, and at home there is a pile of dishes to wash and there is
What cleaning the yard, how beautiful! And the man wasting time.

Fausto (trying to regain his dignity): Well, love, but you don't do anything, you could wash the dishes.
dishes at least.

Mara (outraged): What?! What did you say, Fausto? And you, accomplice buddy.

Bartender (excusing himself): No, comadre, don't involve me, I was cleaning the bar and he arrived.
only here.

Mara: I asked you, what did you say Fausto?

Fausto (scared): Nothing my love.

Mara (Taking her bag and starting to hit Fausto) Get up from there and let's go home,
Shameless, you'll see when we arrive, move!

Fausto gets up trying to shield himself from Mara's blows while the bartender laughs and watches.
to move away.

Bartender (shouting so Fausto can hear and laughing at the same time): That's right, buddy, don't let yourself be...
you are the one in charge, he is a man!
 Play about a marriage (4 characters)
Play in two acts for 4 characters. This example is a script about a marriage.
modern and the problems they face today.
Título: “Matrimonios modernos”

Autora: Clara Pérez

4 characters

1. Amalia: mother who tries to advise her daughter.

2. Sofía: Recently married daughter who has her own way of living marriage.
3. Fernando: Husband of Sofía.
4. Paco: Father of Fernando.

ACTI

Setting: Kitchen of Sofia's mother's house.

Introduction: Sofia enters the kitchen and finds her mother sweeping, washing dishes,
cooking, all at once.

Sofia (leaning in to kiss her mother): Hi mommy, how are you? Well, I can see you now, like a
octopus doing everything at once.

Amalia (Kissing her daughter happy to see her): Hello daughter, yes I'm doing everything I can because this
Later I am going to accompany your dad to the doctor and I want to leave everything ready at home.

Sofia (amazed): And where is he?

Amalia (without stopping to move while doing her things): She went down to talk to her friends, since then
he retired, goes every morning to the corner store and there he meets them, he returns to
lunch time.

Sofia (even more amazed): And doesn't it help you at all?

Amalia (putting down the broom to move what she is preparing in the kitchen): The things in the house are
For women, daughter, he is not going to clean, you have to learn that, so that your husband doesn't...
she complained.

Sofia (laughing ironically): I don't know what...? Oh mom, at my house Fernando has to help, if I...
I cook, he washes the dishes, if we are going to clean we do it together, it costs him nothing to put the clothes in the
washing machine.

Amalia (astonished and shaking her head): Daughter, but that's not his job, what you're going to
The thing is to find a woman who will take care of him and leave you.
Sofía (laughing heartily): Wake up mother, we are in different times, slavery has ended,
Now we both maintain the home, and we both do the chores of the house, or am I going to look for...
another one because I have to go to work and Fernando doesn't support me?

Amalia: Of course not, daughter, you work to help your husband support the household.

Sofia (nodding her head): Exactly, and he does some things around the house to help me.
keep it in order, that's how marriages are now mom.

Amalia: What a strange thing, in my time that would have been almost condemned.

Sofía (laughing): Well, now that's the most normal thing. I'm going to peek out to see if I can see my dad and manage to...
greet him.

Sofía leaves the kitchen and Amalia continues with her duties.

ACTII

Setting: Living room of the house.

Introduction: Fernando talks to Paco, his father, while he reads the newspaper.

Paco (not taking his eyes off the news): How's it going, son? How's married life?

Fernando (smiling contently): Very well dad, I get along very well with Sofía, we're on good terms.
We agree on almost everything, we rarely argue when it comes to making decisions.

Paco(Sacando la vista del periódico y mirando a Fernando): ¿Por qué tendrían que discutir? Si
You are the man of the house, you make a decision and she must accept it, there is no discussion about that.

Fernando (laughing heartily): No dad, it's not like that now, how can I make a decision without...
asking Sofía about it, she kicks me out of the house.

Paco (amazed): So you do what Sofia decides?

Fernando (without wiping the smile from his face): We do what we both decide and believe that
it's better for both.

Paco (dissatisfied with the answer): Ah, look how we lost authority with modernity. So what?
Have you thought about how many jobs you're going to have when Sofía decides to have a child? Because I can imagine.
that she will stop working to take care of her baby and you will have to maintain the house.

Fernando (already tired of his father's questions): Having a child will be a decision for both of us.
dad, and I don't have to look for more jobs, Sofia has a good job, she earns very well, when she
they will give the necessary permission to take care of the baby for the first months and then, it
We will take her to a daycare and she will continue working.
Paco (still in shock): Your son is going to be cared for by a stranger, so that Sofía can keep doing the
What do you want?

Fernando: Oh old man, no matter how much I explain it to you, you won't understand, modern marriages.
they are based on equality, machismo is left behind, the woman who could not express her opinion or work. But
I suppose that's something very difficult for you to understand when your beliefs are deeply rooted.
I am going to look for Sofía, father, we'll talk later.

Fernando leaves the room and Paco is left thinking aloud.

Paco: Look how things have changed, if we keep this up, soon men will be left in
the house taking care of the children and cleaning while the women will go to the bars with their friends while the
husband is at home, how incredible!
 Play about the importance of helping
characters)
Example of a short play script for 4 characters that deals with the importance of
help those who need it most.

Título: “Todo lo que haces se devuelve”

Autora: Clara Pérez

4 Characters:
1. Casilda: Inhabitant of the town who cares about helping people in need.
2. Mariana: Casilda's assistant in collecting aid.
3. Policarpo: Owner of the town's store.
4. Francisca: Wife of Policarpo.

ACTONE

Setting: Town warehouse.

Introduction: Casilda and Mariana arrive very upset at the store to ask for help.
Policarpo and his wife.

Casilda (With a sad and worried face): Good morning Mr. Policarpo, how are you?

Policarpo: Very well ma'am, how may I assist you?

Mariana (taking the floor): How are you? I don't know if you have already heard that the river has risen in the area.
on and the people who lived nearby lost their homes, it took everything, it left nothing in its wake, those people
he is doing very poorly.

Francisca (worried): If we find out poor people, what will they do now?

Policarpo (Not paying much attention): If we heard that, God's designs, it's going to be tough for you.
get up, but to work, that's what it's time for.

Casilda: If it is going to be very hard for them, but now they have nothing, not even clothes, nor food, they were given a
place in the church to stay but they need everything else, we want to help them and
We are organizing a collection in the town to bring them the necessary items, milk, food, clothing,
["blankets","drinking water","medications"]

Policarpo (nodding): Very well, I hope you have good luck and are able to help that.
people.
Mariana (shaking her head): No Mr. Policarpo, we didn't come just to tell you, we came to
request your help, you have a warehouse, and you are one of the wealthiest people in town,
Give us a hand and donate something to help the people who are going through that tragedy.

Francisca (taking Policarpo's hand): Yes Poli, let's donate something, those people must feel
stripped.

Policarpo (letting go of Francisca's hand and walking away a bit): Look, I...
It's sad with those people, but this is not a charity house, everything I sell costs me.
I give away things I lose, and I can't buy them back. I congratulate you on your initiative, but I can't.
to help them.

Francisca (surprised): Poli! How can you not help? People who have less are doing it.
doing.

Mariana: We don't ask for much, anything you can donate is a great help.

Casilda: Put your hand on your heart, Mr. Poli, today it is them and tomorrow it could be us.

Policarpo (convinced not to help): If God decides that at some point it is us who...
Let us get through this, we will see how to move forward, I have money saved, the people do not.
prevents.

Casilda (annoyed): Come on Mariana, it's evident that Mr. Poli is not going to help us, that he doesn't care.
multiply everything that Mr. Poli has and thanks for nothing.
Casilda and Mariana leave the store and Francisca, upset, leaves Policarpo alone in the shop.

ACTII

Setting: A room only with a pile of stacked boxes, blankets, and supplies.

Introduction: Casilda and Mariana organize the boxes in the living room, their faces are of tragedy, they are
messy and dirty. Policarpo and his wife enter under the same circumstances, disheveled,
dirty and torn clothes.

Policarpo (depressed): God! How did this happen to us? We lost everything, this time the river.
it grew towards this side and left us with nothing.

Casilda (worried): Are you okay? Did nothing happen to you?

Francisca: Fortunately, we managed to climb the mountain and saved our lives, that's what
it matters.

Mariana (sarcastic): And what brings you here, Mr. Poli?

Policarpo (annoyed by the question): I am taking a vacation, Mariana. I came to seek refuge like
all of us who lost our homes.
Mariana (without losing her irony): Are you going to take refuge here? Exactly 8 months ago, the people from
This same thing happened, and you refused to help because you have money saved and everyone had
to solve their problems. And now, are you going to take refuge and rely on the help of those people who do not
Did you want to help before?

Francisca (embarrassed): Mariana is right, Poli, you need to find a way to solve it, and not
to take advantage of the help from the people you refused to help.

Policarpo (also embarrassed and realizing his selfishness): I know, Francisca, but
We are cut off, we have lost everything and I can't get to the bank. What can I do?

Casilda (in a conciliatory tone): No worries, Mr. Poli, you are welcome here, the help is for everyone because
There are good people who can help those in need; they can stay, but I hope this makes them...
learn the lesson. Today for you, tomorrow for me.

Policarpo approaches Casilda taking her hand and smiling in a gesture of gratitude.