ABSTRACT
The following is the closing scene of my full-length play Transitional Wars. It depicts a large urban public school board in an internal power struggle portraying power-play micro-politics. This scene presents the final confrontations of its constituencies. It occurs late at night at the end of a very volatile closed (in camera) meeting of the school board steering committee. It is mid-March of the current school year. The characters are:
APPOINTED SCHOOL BOARD OFFICERS: DG-Director General-Douglas Glasgow DEDROTY (DEDR)—former Deputy Director General DDG-Deputy Director General-Donna Deglee ESD-Educational Services Director-Peter Donat
ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD COMMISSIONERS: PRES (COM1)—President Leonard Peterson of the Board of
Commissioners VPRES (COM2)—Paul Kazankis A visible ethnic, not racial, minority-Vice President of the Board of
Commissioners COM3-Ted Dowe, a black African Canadian (Finance portfolio) COM4-Herb Thompson (Transportation portfolio) COM5-Hugh Phearson (Buildings and Grounds portfolio) Please note that commas are also used to indicate a pause in the dialog.
