Мініатюра за мотивами фільму "Потяг до Юми"

 

After classes activity

The play “3.10 to Yuma”

After Elmore John Leonard

 

 

By Zinaida Rostyslavivna Petrunko

The teacher of English

 

 

 

Kyiv - 2022

 

THE CHARACTERS:

 

Jim Kidd (the dangerous criminal) –

 

Scallen (the law man) –

 

Charlie the Prince (Jim’s friend) –

 

The sniper (Jim’s man) –

 

Man 1 (Jim’s man) –

 

Man 2 (Jim’s man) –

 

The railway worker –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 1

 

Scallen and Kidd are in the hotel room. Kidd is sitting on the chair with his hands tied. Scallen is standing nearby with a gun in his hands.

“You’ve made a lot of money”,  Scallen says

“Enough. I can buy what I want”,  Kidd answers

“What are you going to be wanting the next five years?” “You’re pretty sure we’re going to Yuma”, Scallen says

“What made you join the law?” Kidd asks

“The money,” Scallen answers, and feels foolish as he says it.

Kidd shakes his head,

“You know, you’re pretty good. . . .”

Scallen looks at his watch, then stands up, pushing the chair back. The shotgun is under his arm.

He is afraid of what he might do once they are on the street.

Even now his breath is short and occasionally he will inhale and let the air out slowly to calm himself.

There is a man, Charlie the Prince, across the street.

Scallen studies Charlie the Prince under the wooden awning across the street.

Then Scallen glances to Jim Kidd,

“Come here.” (He nods to the window) 

“Tell me who your friend is over there.”

Kidd half rises and leans over looking out the window, then sits down again -  “Charlie the Prince.”

At this time other people with guns come in and take their positions hiding at houses.

Kidd is singing the son “…I’ll be hung up in the morning, I’ll never see the sun…in the morning…” Hey, Scallen, how much do you earn a day? Kidd asks.

“2 dollars”, Scallen answers.

“I’ll give you 1000 dollars. Just put your gun and let me go”, Kidd says.

“Shut up”, Scallen answers.

Scallen steps to the window again. Charlie the Prince and another man are under the awning. The others are not in sight.

“You haven’t changed your mind?” Kidd asks him seriously.

Scallen shakes his head.

“I don’t understand you. You risk your neck to save my life, now you’ll risk it again to send me to prison”, Kidd says

Scallen looks at Kidd “Don’t ask me, Jim,” he says.

After that he looks at his watch every few minutes.

“Let’s go, Jim.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2

 

They go down the stairs and crosses to the front door, Scallen behind Kidd with the shotgun almost touching Kidd’s back. Passing through the doorway he says calmly.

 “Turn left on Stockman and keep walking. No matter what you hear, keep walking.”

Charlie the Prince and his people are hidden behind the house and start shooting.

“They are here”, Charlie the Prince cries.

Kidd and Scallen are running to the house and hide there.

“Let me go, you hero”, Kidd says.

“I’ll get you into the train anyway”, says Scallen.

They try running to the platform, Charlie the Prince and his people shoot again.

“Charlie”, Kidd shouts.

“Where are they?” Scallen asks.

Kidd grinned, because he knew Scallen was afraid and answers:

“How should I know?”

“Tell them to come out in the open!” Scallen says.

“Tell them yourself”, Kidd answers.

“Dammit, tell them!” Scallen clenches his jaw and jabbed the short barrel into Kidd’s back and says:

“I’m not fooling. If they don’t come out, I’ll kill you!”

Kidd feels the gun barrel hard against his spine and suddenly he shouts,

“Charlie!”

There is no answer.

“Dammit, Charlie—hold on!”

Scallen says, “Tell him again!”

“Don’t shoot, Charlie!” Kidd screams the words.

From the other side we can hear the whistle of the train.

We can hear from the backstage:

“. . . Gila Bend. Sentinel, Yuma!”

“It’s the mail car,” Scallen says to Kidd. — “The second to last one. Hurry it up!” —he snaps, pushing Kidd along.

They are going towards the train.

Then Charlie the Prince arrives with a pistol in each hand. —

“Stand where you are! Throw the gun away, brother!” he tells Scallen.

Then he moves around carefully between the two men and the train.

“Throw it far away, and unhitch your belt,” he says.

“Do what he says,” Kidd says. “They’ve got you.”

“Jim—I’ll cut you in half!” Scallen says.

Kidd says, “Wait a minute . . .” He holds his palms out to Charlie the Prince.

Suddenly the Prince shouts, “Boss go down!”

There is a fraction of a moment of dead silence. Kidd hesitates. Scallen is looking at the gunman over Kidd’s shoulder, seeing the two pistols. And suddenly he shoots Charlie the Prince. Charlie falls down the floor. Scallen and Kidd keep going to the train. Charlie’s people go on shooting. Scallen and Kidd are at the train door,

“We’ve got the prisoner to Yuma”, Scallen says and gives Kidd to the train worker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everybody comes up the stage and sing the song:

There is a lonely train,

Called the 3:10 to Yuma.

The pounding of the wheels,

Is more like a mournful sigh.

There’s a legend and there’s a rumour.

When you take the 3:10 to Yuma,

You can see the ghosts,

Of outlaws go riding by, (riding by)

In the sky (in the sky),

‘Way up high.

The buzzards keep circling the train,

While below the cattle are thirsting for rain.

It’s also true they say,

On the 3:10 to Yuma,

A man can meet his fate (not faith—assholes!).

For fate travels everywhere.

‘Though you’ve got no reason to go there,

And there ain’t a soul that you know there.

When the 3:10 to Yuma whistles its sad refrain.

Take that train (take that train)

Take that train.

 

The end