Roberto's Quest for Acceptance
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ScribdTranslationsScene 1:
Narrator (offstage): He is Roberto, and despite being a zambo and having the last name López,
wanted to look less and less like a defender from Alianza Lima and more and more like a blonde from
Philadelphia, everything since that day...
Two girls enter, they play volleyball, Roberto watches them and thinks
Voice over (Roberto) There is Queca, how beautiful she is, her white skin, her green eyes, her
brown hair, that way of running, of laughing, of jumping and those beautiful legs; if only
if only I had the chance to talk to you...
The two girls are playing and the ball gets away from them and ends up at Roberto's feet.
Queca approaches, Roberto hands her the ball, she looks at it
Roberto: Queca...
Queca: With a gesture of disgust, I don't play with zambos.
The scene is paused, the narrator comes out, begins to speak, the girls exit the scene and
Roberto remains sitting.
Narrator: These five words decided his life. Although despite this episode, Roberto continued.
going to the square in the following years, her gaze had already lost all innocence.
Narrator: Queca and her boyfriend, tall and blonde, enter looking in love, Roberto sees them from
far away going to graduation (all the men enter)
Chale Sander: ______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Queca:____________________________________________________________
Sander:____________________________________________________________________
Sander's dad: _____________________________________________________________
Narrator: Roberto understood that Sander was just a phase in Queca's life because
now...
Scene 2:
Narrator: Years went by, Roberto still had a fixation in his chest from the words of
mug
Roberto: Talks while putting on makeup. Me, I'm mixed-race and this has been my cross and the curse that
has made it impossible for me to have a love that I believe I deserve. Not being a gringo, or not even being
white has prevented me from being happy, but this is over, I will do whatever it takes to be like them,
I dedicated my whole life to this and spent all my efforts on it.
(on the street)
Roberto re-enters, reading an address while his friends whistle at him, bothering him.
Keysi 1: Hey, isn't that Roberto?
Jimenez 2: Yes, imagine that now he wants to be called Bobby
Angelina 3: Bobby! But how ridiculous!
Roberto leaves the living room and comes back in, and his mother is at home.
Mother: Because of his pretentiousness, his friends have already taken away his greeting and greet him as
ladybug. She doesn't contribute anything to the house and spends all day in front of the mirror, powdering herself.
face and oxygenating the hair, I don't know what to do anymore!
Roberto leaves the hall and re-enters the stage: bakery The Morales Brothers
Narrator: leaving the bakery, Roberto headed to Queca's house....
Roberto: *knocks on the door* good afternoon ma'am, I'm Bobby, Queca's former classmate.
Is she at home?
Mama of the cake:
All the characters come out
Roberto moves forward and runs into the door of an institute, he looks at the sign.
Roberto: Peruvian-American Institute. This must be it, here I can finally...
perfect my English! Let's see, come in.
Enter a room where there are several students and an empty folder.
Teacher: Good morning student
Roberto: Good morning teacher
Professor: Take a seat please
Roberto sits next to a guy who is also dark-skinned but, like him, wears makeup.
and wig.
José: Hi, I'm José, José María Cabanillas, and you?
Roberto: I am Bobby
José: He shakes hands with him, A pleasure.
Teacher: Guys please, stop talking and pay attention to the class.
Both open their books and look ahead
The others exit the scene taking the chairs, leaving Bobby and José sitting there.
conversing while the narrator speaks
Narrator: They then formed an inseparable couple, they used to have long and
very pleasant conversations. They were always seen in their faded blue jeans, going from here
over there. But it is also true that the city did not accept them and neither relatives nor acquaintances
they could pass. For this reason, they rented a room in a building on Jirón Mogollón and went to live
together.
José: Hey, I'm fed up with living here.
Roberto: I would too, it would be amazing to be able to live in the United States.
José: Yes, but you see that they didn't accept us to work abroad.
Roberto: mmmm.. I know! We can save a lot and go as tourists, then we can look for it later.
some work and we see what we do
Jose:Claro, eso sí, ahora hay que sacarnos la mugre trabajando para ahorrar
Roberto: Well, it is what must be done!
Oh well
They both stand up and leave the scene.
Narrator: And so they did, they broke their backs working and collected as much as they could to
to cover the tickets and thus they traveled directly to New York. However, the initial infatuation
quickly disappeared from the city Bobby and José María spent in a month what
They thought it would last them a semester. They realized that they had gathered in New York.
all the López and Cabanillas in the world, in addition to hundreds of Asians, Arabs, Aztecs,
Africans, etc., of all races and colors of the world. The city was gradually absorbing
the few bills they had saved, they had no job or means to sustain themselves, until they
they had an idea...
Both dressed in military uniforms enter.
They look at each other face to face
José: Desperately Are you sure this is the best option?
Roberto: Sure, it's best to go to Korea, to war, we endure for a year and then to our...
We will have nationality, work, social security, integration, medals, and finally!
respect and acceptance!
José: Well, that's true, but what if something happens to us?
Roberto: ¿Qué nos va a pasar? Aparte que prefieres, ¿quedarte a morir de hambre aquí?
José: Yes, you're right, let's go then.
They both run out.
José enters limping and holding his arm with a pained expression.
José: Boooby! Boooby! Brother, where are you? Go to one end of the stage like you're watching.
to his friend from afar, Bobby? Bobby! Watch out! Booooooby! Noooooo! Scream
heartbreakingly, there is a silence
Jose is sitting at a table with other friends, he is missing an arm and no longer wears makeup.
Jose: And that's how they dealt with Booby, his head went rolling, no one knows where...
his grandmother couldn't handle the news
angelina 2: And all for the Queca
Jose: And who was Queca?
a girl that we all liked when we were kids, but especially Roberto, in the end
she also ended up abroad married to a white man.
Narrator: meanwhile, Queca's marriage was deteriorating, Milligan became
addicted to games and aggressive