[ the solo's are missing for the different characters and need to be added ]
[ what will robert sing? ]
[ the 4 rcmp uniformed officers are checking tickets ]
[ the lights go down - and come up on the chorus ]
[ the chorus could be angels with wings - like the angels in Wings of Desire ]
chorus: we are here today - the day robert Dziekanski is going to die
chorus: we are here in the vancouver airport, waiting with him - it's 1am - he's got just 30 minutes to live
chorus: he doesn't know that he is going to die
chorus: he got off the plane from poland 10 hours ago and he hasn't had anything to eat or drink
[ robert walks on and off ]
chorus: we dedicate this work to him. to his mother. to poland. to vancouver.
[ moment of silence, heads bowed ]
chorus: the 4 rcmp officers are here too.
chorus: they don't know that they are going to kill him.
[ the 4 officers are talking off stage, on stage, beyond the 4th wall ]
chorus: the camera man is here. he is coming back from china.
chorus: if it wasn't for him none of us would exist.
[ do the lights go out? is the chorus wearing camera's around their necks? ]
[ or do they just pause and bow their heads ]
chorus: we are not going to tell this story in the usual way.
chorus: we are also not going to tell it like it happened - this is make believe after all.
chorus: we could tell it as a tragedy - for a tragedy it is.
chorus: we have all the elements the ancient greeks loved and thought so highly of.
chorus: we have unity time - unity of place - unity of action.
chorus: a perfect triangle.
chorus: the players don't know their time has come.
chorus: the clock is ticking and the events are ready to unfold.
chorus: the airport, the arrival area - an arrival and a departure.
chorus: the action is a betrayal, a killing, the many against the one, us versus the other, the state versus the individual, brother killing brother, the armed versus the unarmed, the watchers versus the watched.
chorus: we could tell the story like that - but why? this airport is a cabaret!
[ the lights go down on the chorus ]
[ the lights come up on a big show number of "life is a cabaret" !!! ]
[ let's have some fun! what does vancouver have to offer? burlesque and drag queens and so much in between!! ]
[ the lights go down on the dancers and go up on the chorus ]
chorus: robert, you can come on stage now.
chorus: we can't hear him. imagine he is speaking polish.
chorus: but all we hear is nothing. no one hears him. his ignored.
chorus: robert - go and look for your mother. search the stage.
chorus: don't give up robert. keep looking. you have been looking for 9 hours.
robert: i want my mom.
robert: i want my mom. where is my mom?
robert: she would be here... why isn't she here.
robert: mom!
robert: mom - how come no one is helping me.
robert: don't leave me here alone.
robert: no one understands me.
robert: no one cares about me.
robert: i am soo alone.
robert: mom - come and get me please.
robert: please - i am begging you - come and get me out of here.
robert: i need you.
robert: i miss you.
robert: where are you?
robert: when are you coming?
chorus: robert - that's enough. we understand.
chorus: you understand don't you?
chorus: did you ever let go of your mother's hand only to lose her?
chorus: his mother came to get him.
chorus: she stayed at the airport for 3 hours before going back to kamloops.
chorus: she never sees her son alive again.
[ zofia at a customer service agent booth ]
zofia: can you please page my son
zofia: he is supposed to be here hours ago
zofia: please page him - his name is robert Dziekanski
zofia: no - you pronounce it Dziekanski - Dzie - kan - ski
zofia: robert Dziekanski
chorus: but robert can't hear that page
chorus: he is the secure area - and pages are not played there
chorus: and even if pages were played there
chorus: it wouldn't have been his mothers voice
chorus: now - we will re-enact what is shown on the video tapes
[ re-enactment ]
[ robert is dead ]
[ lights black except the spot on him ]
officers: we are sorry
officers: it was wrong
officers: we wish we could do it all over again
officers: but since we can't
officers: we are working hard to make sure this doesn't happen again
officers: we are speaking out
officers: we don't want anyone else to die
officers: we don't want anyone else to kill someone and live with that
officers: we don't want anyone else to lose their son or their daughter
officers: we don't want to use electric discharge weapons anymore
[ they put the weapons down ]
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