The Wall

by Sullyhogs1

A script for a stage adaptation of Pink Floyd's album/rock opera I'm writing. The story is about a burnt-out rock star who builds an emotional and psychological wall between himself and society based off of the traumatic experiences in his past. I own some character names, some new dialogue, and the staging. The rest goes to Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters. Read & review, please!

7. The Happiest Days of Our Lives

Act I – Scene 5

The Happiest Days of Our Lives

(Enter PRE-TEEN PINK and his friends. They run around and cause mischief in the aisles and around the audience. The right half of the stage is set up like a classroom, while a small table with two chairs is placed on the left.

(Enter EDWARD and teachers on stage right.)

EDWARD: (To PRE-TEEN PINK) You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!

(Music starts. PRE-TEEN PINK and his friends run to the desks and take their seats. More children come in and take their seats, as well. EDWARD is talking with the other teachers.)

PINK: (offstage VO)

When we grew up an went to school,

There were certain teachers,

Who would hurt the children any way they could.

(EDWARD walks into the classroom and whacks a kid in the back with a ruler.)

EDWARD: Alright, you little buggers, sit up straight and get to work!

PINK: (offstage VO)

By pouring their derision upon anything we did,

Exposing every weakness,

However carefully hidden by the kids.

(Music fades. EDWARD surveys the classroom and dead-eyes PRE-TEEN PINK writing a poem. He walks over to PRE-TEEN PINK, who is writing in a little black book, and notices his distraction.)

EDWARD: What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code?

(EDWARD picks up the book and looks through it.)

No – poems, no less!

(He raises the book up for all the students to see.)

Poems, everybody! The laddie considers himself a poet!

(The students laugh. EDWARD begins to read the poems.)

"Money get back/I'm alright Jack/Keep your hands off my stack."

(Students laugh again.)

"New car, caviar/Four star daydream/Think I'll buy me a football team."

(Students laugh again.)

Absolute rubbish, laddie!

(He smacks PRE-TEEN PINKS hand with his ruler.)

Now, repeat after me "An acre is an area of a rectangle whose length is one furlong and whose width is one chain."

(The students repeat what he says as he leaves the classroom to sit at the table on the other end of the stage. The students stay in their seats)

(Enter HELENA, EDWARD's wife, as she takes a seat at the small table. The music begins again.)

PINK: (still offstage)

But in town it was well-known,

When they got home at night,

Their fat and psychopathic wives,

Would thrash them within inches of their lives.

(HELENA smacks EDWARD as the have been talking inaudibly. She is very commanding of EDWARD.)

CHORUS: (offstage)

Oooooo….

(Edward goes back to the classroom. Exit HELENA. The table and chairs are taken off.)