What time do you have? Second page

Why it can’ t be?

CARLOS

I have just had lunch.

SHOP ASSISTANT - CINTHIA

(SERIOUSLY SMILING)

What has it got to do? What has the present time got to do with lunch?

CARLOS

(NERVOUSLY HESITATING)

It was… a few minutes ago...

A few minutes ago… it was one o’oclock. It can’ t be.

F/X: (INDOORS. SOUND OF CARLOS STEPS AS HE LEAVES THE SHOP. AS THE DOOR OPENS, TRAFFIC SOUND, PEDESTRIAN SOUND ALL COME BACK TO THE INTERIOR OF THE SHOP. DOOR OPENS AGAIN. FOOTSTEPS ATE THE SAME. THEY ARE CARLOS’S; HOWEVER, THEY PRODUCE A THUD ON THE SHOP FLOOR.)

CARLOS

At the church tower, it is a quarter past one

(APPALLED)

What happened to you?

SHOP ASSISTANT

(IN A MATTER OF FACT MANNER)

To me?

What time do you have? First page

What time do you have?

By Inaldo de Oliveira Elias

SCENE 1

F/X: (INDOORS. SOUND OF A SHOP DOOR BEEN OPENED. TRAFFIC NOISE FROM OUTSIDE IS SLOWLY MUFFLED AS THE DOOR CLOSES.)

CARLOS

Hello

SHOP ASSITANT - CINTHIA

(IN A INTERESTED TONE)

Hello

CARLOS

What time is it?

SHOP ASSISTANT - CINTHIA

Five-thirty.

CARLOS

Five-thirty?

(SURPRISED).

It can’t be.

SHOP ASSISTANT - CINTHIA

What time do you have? Characters' presentation

What time do you have?

By Inaldo de Oliveira Elias

MAIN CHARACTERS

Carlos	A lawyer
Bené	A teacher, Carlos’s friend
Fernanda Mendes	Cinthia’s daughter Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes’s bastard daughter Maria Antônias grand-daughter

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

Bruno Mendes	Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes’s son
Mrs. Adalgiza Mendes	Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes’s widow
Cinthia	Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes’s mistress and Fernanda Mendes’s mother

MINOR CHARACTERS

Karen Carlos's secretary
Carmem Carlos’s parapsychologist
Girl at Real State Registration Office in Piraí
Girl at Real State Registration Office in Barra do Piraí
Boss at Real State Registration Office in Barra do Piraí

MENTIONED CHARACTERS ( no need for actors)

Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes	Dead businessman whose small fortune heirs are fighting for
Ingrid	Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes’s daughter
Marcela	Mr Bernardo Castro Mendes’s daughter

For my English-speaking readers: a play called What time do you have?

Money, life, death!

In nowadays Rio de Janeiro, the boundaries between this world and the next are broken due to a mother's desire to save her daughter's future.

Carlos, a dedicated lawyer, is caught up in the middle of this turmoil.

Available for you to read now on Amazon.com:

What time do you have?

I'll soon share here with you some of its pages. I hope you'll enjoy it.