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CHARACTERS
HARMOND WILKS: Real-estate developer. seeking mayoral candidacy. Well-placed local leader.
MAME WILKS: Harmond's wife of over twenty years. Professional public relations representative.
ROOSEVELT HICKS: Bank Vice President. Harmond's business partner and college roommate. Avid golfer.
STERLING JOHNSON: Self-employed contractor and neighborhood handyman. Robbed bank thirty years ago.
ELDER JOSEPH BARLOW: Recently returned to the Hill District, where he was born in 1918.
SETTING
The Hill District. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1997. The office of Bedford Hills Redevelopment, Inc., in a storefront on Centre Avenue.
RADIO GOLF
ACT ONE
SCENE 1
The lights come up on the office of Bedford Hills Redevelopment, Inc. There are unpacked boxes scattered about. Mame Wilks enters and takes in the office. Harmond Wilks enters, his arms full of boxes.
MAME: So this is it? This isn't anything like the way you described it. This ceiling's what you were so excited about? Harmond, it looks raggedy.
HARMOND: Look close. see the embossing on the tin. see those marks. It's all hand tooled. That's the only way you get pattern detail like that. That tin ceiling's worth some money.
NAME: Then take it down and sell it. At least put some new paint on it. I wouldn't want to do business here.
HARMOND: This is a construction office. It's not to impress anybody.
MAME: Your campaign office cannot look like this.
HARMOND: I'm going to put the campaign office in Reese's old wallpaper and paint store up on the corner of Centre and Kirkpatrick. It's got a lot of windows. People can see inside.
MAME: I thought you would open your office in Shadyside. What's wrong with putting your office in Shadyside? You can put it right there on Murray where that old bookstore used to be. That's got a lot of windows too. What's wrong with Shadyside?
HARMOND: I'm from the Hill District.
MAME: The population of the Hill isn't but 3,500 people. And it's hard to get them to vote.
HARMOND: You don't understand. Politics is about symbolism. Black people don't vote but they have symbolic weight.
MAME: That's what Thomas Brown said when he ran for mayor. You see what he's doing now. Fixing parking tickets.
HARMOND: I have a plan. Thomas Brown didn't have a plan.
MAME: I have...