In pairs, read out the following short dialogue taken from a play, each one playing

the part of one character. Exchange roles to get a good feel of the little play.
The Discontented Princess
(Part of Scene 1)
Princess Kudaro: Ayi.
Ayi: Yes, Princess
Princess Kudaro: You have never told me that I am beautiful
Ayi: No, Princess
Princess Kudaro: Why not?
Ayi: It is not a woman's place to tell other women such things, Princess
Princess Kudaro: (turning to her, enraged): And why not? Certainly they do it in
Lagos, Accra, and other big towns.
Ayi: This is neither Lagos nor Accra, princess. This is Koloro, and we are simple
villagers.
Princess Kudaro: Simple villagers? You are worse than simple villagers. I hate this
place. O heaven! It's dull, dull dull! Take me back to any town by the sea-side.

Ayi: But please, Princess, this is your home. No matter where you go, you will long
for it and come back to it. This is your father's kingdom and you shall be our next
Queen,if -
Princess Kudaro (interrupting her): if - oh yes, if my father has no male child. Oh,
let him have a male child. I cannot be locked up in this forest for years, calling myself
a Queen or whatever you like. Oh!
(She turns restlessly on her seat) it's so dull, dull, dull! (And she becomes miserable)
Ayi: Princess, your father will not like this kind of talk.
Princess Kudaro: No, he won't. I know he is an old man. But what has he known
about life? Has he ever danced the waltz or has he ever attended parties in a big
town?
Ayi: But, Princess, he has more experience.
Princess Kudaro (laughing derisively): What experience? Why has he taken me
away from the school in the city, where I was doing so well, and brought me back to
this forgotten village? Was that the act of an experienced man?
Ayi: Don't forget your mother, Princess, She is not well and would like you to be
nearer to her. And your father, too, is getting old.
Princess Kudaro (unimpressed): We will all get old if we don't die of boredom.
There is no need for him to make anybody unhappy simply because it is his turn to
get old. If we do this what will happen to youth? Now, I am sad (she closes her
eyes.) How I used to sit in the parks in the city and watch little birds chirping at my
feet! Here what do I find? I have to sit and listen to owls hooting from tree to tree. Ah,
Ayi, you don't know what you lose by remaining in this village.
Ayi: Well, I am sorry you feel so about royal village, Princess.
Princess Kudaro (suddenly bright): Ayi, my girl, I have a secret for you. It is not
that I do not like my home, but I have a handsome young man in the town where I
used to go to school. (She smiles) He has promised to marry me. But how can he
marry me when I am locked up in this village? (She almost cries).
(Extract from 'This is our chance' by James Henshaw,(1956) 19th impression,
Hodder and Stoughton Educational p10-11)
ACTIVITY 8:
Identify and write down any interjections from the dialogue