April 29, 2003
Shufu Theater: Interview -- Iraq

[This is the second of the Shufu interview plays posted here -- a short explanation of what these are have already been posted as a preface to the first play, "Interview with a Civilian".]

"Interview with an Expert"

A TV Studio
November 2002

Two people sitting.

INTERVIEWER
Hi Akie
Nice to meet you.

EXPERT
Nice to meet you too

INTERVIEWER
Your clothes is very nice

EXPERT
Thank you

INTERVIEWER
How do you feel
Today

EXPERT
I’m a little nervous
It is my first time
To be on
Such a big program

INTERVIEWER
No don’t worry about
Camera

EXPERT
Okay

INTERVIEWER
You spend
Your house

                Pause.

                Thinking.

Make yourself at home

EXPERT
Oh! Okay

                The EXPERT relaxes.

INTERVIEWER
So

Mmmm

Now

EXPERT
What time
What time
What time
Does this program start?

INTERVIEWER
Thirty seconds
I’m nervous

EXPERT
Don’t worry about it

INTERVIEWER
Start. Okay.

                Pause.

                THEY wait.

                The "Camera" starts.

Hello this is Kyoka
I introduce audience Akie
Akie is specialist in

                Pause.

Arab region

                THEY laugh.

This time
We think about
The United States versus Iraq
So Akie
What do you think about president Hussein

EXPERT
President Hussein

INTERVIEWER
Do you think he is
Hero in Iraq

EXPERT
I guess he is hero in Iraq
But
Iraq

                Pause.

I don’t many things in Iraq
I saw
I watched TV about Iraq
Many Iraqis
Agree with his policy
And

                Beat.

It is my opinion
We should know
We should know
Many politician policy
United States policy
And Iraq’s policy
And third government policy
What should I say
Third world world policy
President Hussein is a little bit

                Pause.

Despotic
He seems des
He seems despotic o me but
I guess he
He had anything
So Iraqis
Agree with him.
I guess

INTERVIEWER
So
Do you think Iraqis need
Strong leader like President Hussein
Because so many Arab countries
Eehhhhh…
Doesn’t have
Doesn’t have
Natural resources
And ah…
In the future
They don’t have oil

Iraq
Doesn’t have
Sea
And…
They want to

EXPERT
Yeah

INTERVIEWER
Need
The sea

EXPERT
Yeah
Iraq is not an affluent

                Beat.

Not rich country
Want strange leader
I guess
So
For example
In North Korea
In Afghanastan
In Afghanastan
It’s different I guess
He is terrorist
Osama Bin Ladin
If these country have many food
or many

                Looking up in dictionary.

Or many resources
Resources
They won’t they don’t have
Weapons
Which can kill many people
For example biological weapons or nuclear weapons
But they want to
Food or money or anything
But they cannot have them
So they
They run
They use armed force
To rich country or
They want to get them
So they use armed force
Against another country
So they need
They need
Strange hero

INTERVIEWER
When Iraq attacked Kuwait

                Beat.
Iraq
Iraq’s religion
Is different between
Different than Kuwait

EXPERT
Ohhhhhhh…

INTERVIEWER
What do you think
This point?

                Pause.

INTERVIEWER
So
Some Islam religion
ehhh…
Islam religion
Doesn’t agree
Another religion
So somethings
They attack
Some
Country for example

                Beat.
Somalia
And
Bosnia

                THEY laugh.

I’m sorry

EXPERT
I guess
I guess
Iraq attacked Kuwait
Because they don’t
Many oils
Because they want
To get
A lot of money so
Every want to get
Many money and grow up
In strange country
Strange country
Expand their country
I guess Iraq want to
Get sea
For oil

INTERVIEWER
So Iraq get natural power
They want to get more natural resources

EXPERT
To build up national strength
Iraq attack Kuwait and get seat
And they want to build up
National strength

INTERVIEWER
Okay.

Wjay do you think of
The U.S.’ policy to Iraq?

EXPERT
I disagree
I disagree the United States and its support
Will attack Iraq

INTERVIEWER
Why
Do you agree

EXPERT
Disagree

INTERVIEWER
-Disagree with US policy

EXPERT
Because
Because using armed force

                Pause.

It’s my opinion
I guess using arm force
Give birth to terrorism

INTERVIEWER
Hmmmm…

EXPERT
I guess
People in
People in
The world
Every people in the world
Have a
Have a
Have plenty of food
Or everything
If every people in the world
Have plenty of food and everything
We will
We won’t
We won’t have war

                Beat.

INTERVIEWER
Hm!?

EXPERT
If every people
Of the world
Have plenty of food and everything-


INTERVIEWER
-Oh-okay-

                THEY laugh

EXPERT
We won’t have war

INTERVIEWER
I think so
What do you think?

Few Arab countries agree with the U.S,
Policy
Why did they agree with the U.S. policy

EXPERT
Because they
They want to
They want to
Another oil field

INTERVIEWER
I’m sorry
What do you mean?

EXPERT
If one of them
They have-

INTERVIEWER
They want

The United States’ money

EXPERT
Mmmm…
Yes
I agree with your opinion

INTERVIEWER
The last question
Do you think the U.S. government like to interfere
In other countries

EXPERT
Yes I think so that

INTERVIEWER
Why do you think so?

                Pause.

EXPERT
The United States
We need
We need leader
But the United States
A little bit

                Pause.

A little bit
The United States interferes too much
I guess
But too much

What should I say?

I wish we have another way
Out of using armed force
I don’t know that because
I am not genius
But we have another way
I believe

INTERVIEWER
Thank you

EXPERT
Your welcome

Posted by Brian Stefans at April 29, 2003 11:04 AM | TrackBack
Comments

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Posted by: Francis on January 18, 2004 07:42 PM

Let's see an example by converting our favoriteNumber variable from a stack variable to a heap variable. The first thing we'll do is find the project we've been working on and open it up in Project Builder. In the file, we'll start right at the top and work our way down. Under the line:

Posted by: Edward on January 18, 2004 07:43 PM

When Batman went home at the end of a night spent fighting crime, he put on a suit and tie and became Bruce Wayne. When Clark Kent saw a news story getting too hot, a phone booth hid his change into Superman. When you're programming, all the variables you juggle around are doing similar tricks as they present one face to you and a totally different one to the machine.

Posted by: Griffin on January 18, 2004 07:43 PM

This back and forth is an important concept to understand in C programming, especially on the Mac's RISC architecture. Almost every variable you work with can be represented in 32 bits of memory: thirty-two 1s and 0s define the data that a simple variable can hold. There are exceptions, like on the new 64-bit G5s and in the 128-bit world of AltiVec

Posted by: Edi on January 18, 2004 07:44 PM

Earlier I mentioned that variables can live in two different places. We're going to examine these two places one at a time, and we're going to start on the more familiar ground, which is called the Stack. Understanding the stack helps us understand the way programs run, and also helps us understand scope a little better.

Posted by: Rosanna on January 18, 2004 07:44 PM
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