The Junzi

By Pen Avram

Kroupa and Hendrych go to the theatre! In their first full-length stage play, our intrepid duo go deeper than ever before while investigating a suspicious death, which leads them to the the Chinese underworld. However, while all the clues point to a gangland killing, could the real motive be far more personal?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pen Avram
• Release date: Apr 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476212265

Pen Avram

This one-time piano mechanic turned Master of Applied Science (Critical Enquiry/Social Ecology) fled to the West from the former Soviet bloc, finally finding his home in Australia. Growing up in a family touched by the horrors of the holocaust and communism, Pen Avram has spent his life studying what drives people of different faiths around the world to act the way they do. His insights now inform the mysteries investigated by the intrepid team of Kroupa and Hendrych. And Sara is a real dog, blood an bones.

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THE JUNZI

A book by Pen Avram

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THE 'JUNZI'

The Gentleman

One act play in 17 scenes

THE CHARACTERS:

DCI Rowan Kroupa – a detective

Johan Hendrych - Kroupa's friend and a reporter

Sergei Zlotkov – a student

Ron Black – a student

Xue Cheng – a student

Yan Cheng - Xue's father

Barman

Muriel – A Madam

Li – a prostitute

Prostitute

Sun – The boss of a Chinese gang

Tuan – The boss of a Vietnamese gang

Rong – The member of a Chinese gang

Jeff - a young soldier

Throsby - Jeff's superior

Shu – The manager of a Chinese market

The action takes place in and around an unidentified university, its canteen and bar; a brothel; Cheng's flat; Sergei's place; an army unit; and a Chinese market.

The staging derives from the Elizabethan stage with main three sections and entrances, scrim curtains and judicious lighting allow for an almost Brechtian, epic style of theatre, complete with a screen upstage centre, for back projection (P).

Music is indicated by (M), fades away with action.

Scene 1

Centre Stage. Light. Left and Right parts of the stage are dark

P = Old University building.

M = Gaudeamus Igitur - fades to silence when Sergei start to speak

In front of the university building.

SERGEI. What about her. (He points to XUE who is passing upstage) There.

RON. I would …

SERGEI. I bet you would... if you could.

RON. I've never had an Asian girl… Fuck she’s hot.

SERGEI. I bet I could teach her to talk properly.

RON. Huh?

SERGEI. Her 'R's and 'L's.

RON. You speech therapists are all the same. Why’d you never correct me?

SERGEI. Because I