RA-DIONYSUS 161.

8
Radio Play Script

CHARACTERS:
Ysabella Guttierez as DJ BELLY
Krizelle Gonzales as DJ KELLY
David Daniel Pavico as MONTRESOR and VICTIM #3
Xavier Clay Ardillo as FORTUNATO
Jim Canlapan Jr. as BULLY #1
Jhon Joshua Paras as BULLY #2
Jeannie Darci Bernardo as BULLY #3
Phoemela Dela Cruz as VICTIM #2
Vianca Angelie Perez as VICTIM #1

TRIBUTE TO: Shintaro Ichiro Shinozuka

DJ’s SCRIPT
INTRODUCTIONAL
DJ ZELLY: Hello, universe,
DJ Belly: Hello, world,
BOTH: Hello Philippines! (SFX: Applause) You are now
tuned in to Ra-dionysus 161.8(SFX: air horn) with your
ever faithful-
DJ Zelly: DJ Zelly (SFX: Cheering)
DJ Belly: and DJ Belly. (SFX: Cheering)
DJ Belly: For today’s forecast, a sunny day with blue
skies are present this (insert time).
DJ Zelly: And to match this beautiful day is me, (SFX:
Booing) DJ Zelly: Oh, just kidding, guys, to match this
beautiful day with you is a (SFX: Drumroll) …Suspenseful
story! (SFX: Suspenseful music) That will put you on the
edge of your seats! (SFX: The Big Reveal)
(SFX: Air horn noises, fireworks)

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

SCENE I
FORTUNATO: Ha, ha, ha, he, he! A very good joke indeed!
An excellent jest! We will have many laughs at the
palazzo - he, he, he! - over our wine - he, he!
MONTRESOR: The Amontillado!
FORTUNATO: He, he, he, he! Yes! The Amontillado! But is
it not getting late? Will not they be awaiting for us at
the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Let us be
gone.
MONTRESOR: Yes, let us be gone.
FORTUNATO: For the love of God, Montre-

(SFX: The Boom)

SCENE II
MONTRESOR: (SFX: villainous music) I vowed revenge. For
the threat that you conferred. I would be avenged! But I
must not only punish but punish with impunity. It must be
understood, that I did not do any of these. Although this
Fortunato is a man to be respected and even feared, he
had a weak point. Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a
quack - but in the matter of old wines, he was sincere.
It was dusk, during the evening… (voice starts to fade)

(SFX in order: Crickets, carnival music, people talking,

cheering)

MONTRESOR: My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How

remarkably well you are looking today! But having
received a pipe of what passes as Amontillado, and, I
have my doubts.

FORTUNATO: How? Amontillado?! A pipe! Impossible! And in

the middle of a carnival!

MONTRESOR: I have my doubts, and I was silly enough to

pay the full price without consulting you in the matter.
You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a
bargain.

FORTUNATO: Amontilla-
MONTRESOR: I had my doubts!
Fortunato: Amontillad-
Montresor: And I must satisfy the-
Fortunato: Amontillado!
Montresor: As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi.
Of anyone has a critical turn, it is he. He will tell me-
Fortunato: Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.
Montresor: And yet some fools will have it that his taste
is a match for your own.
Fortunato: Come, let us go.
Montresor: Wither?
Fortunato: To your vaults.
Montresor: My friend, no; I will not impose upon your
good nature, I perceived you have an engagement Luchesi-
Fortunato: I have no engagement; come.
Montresor: My friend, no. It is not the engagement but
severe cold with which you are afflicted. The vaults are
insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre.
Fortunato: Let us go nevertheless. The cold is merely
nothing. Amontillado! You have been imposed upon. And as
for Luchesi, he cannot distinguish Sherry from
Amontillado… (voice starts to fade)
INFOMERCIAL
BULLY #1: You think you're smart! You're retarded!
BULLY #2: Hey, look at this guy, acting depressed for
attention!
BULLY #3: It's all in your mind, psycho!
BULLY #1: Gross! Get away from me!
BULLY #2: Weirdo!
BULLY #3: Freak
BULLY #1: Know-it-all!
BULLY #2: You’re weak!
BULLY #3: Pathetic!

(SFX: Suspenseful music buildup, suddenly stopping at

climax)

VICTIM #1: These are just icings on the cake

VICTIM #2: And this is a daily routine.
VICTIM #3: But these shouldn’t affect me.
VICTIM #1: As after ashes comes healthy saplings.
VICTIM #2: And they rise up from the ashes.
VICTIM #3: Develop new beginnings,
VICTIMS #1, #2, #3: I know who I am. Who are they to put
a label on me?

SCENE III
Montresor: (cut in with booming voice) I let Fortunato
come to my palazzo. There were no attendants at home;
they made merry to pass the time. I had told them that I
should not return until dawn, in which I had given them
explicit orders not to stir from the house. Yet, this was
to insure their immediate disappearance - as soon as I
turn my back. I led him to the vaults…
(SFX: feet stepping and walking, jingling of bells)
Fortunato: The pipe?
Montresor: It is further on, but observe the white web-
work which gleams form these cavern walls.
Fortunato: Nitre?
Montresor: Nitre-
Fortunato: Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! (coughing)
Montresor: How long have you had that cough?
Fortunato: It is nothing. Cough! Cough!
Montresor: Come, we will go back - your health is
precious.
Fortunato: No, I will not die of a cough!
(SFX: pouring of wine, gulping, laughing)

SCENE IV
(SFX: Creaking door sound, cackling of chains)
Montresor: Pass your hand, over the wall; you cannot help
feeling the nitre. Indeed it is very damp. Once more, let
me implore you to return. No? Then I must positively
leave you. But I must first render you all the little
attentions in my power.
Fortunato: The Amontillad-
(SFX: Crunching of bones, chains)
(Fortunato starts to scream)

FORTUNATO: Ha, ha, ha, he, he! A very good joke indeed!
An excellent jest! We will have many laughs at the
palazzo - he, he, he! - over our wine - he, he!

MONTRESOR: The Amontillado!

FORTUNATO: He, he, he, he! Yes! The Amontillado! But is
it not getting late? Will not they be awaiting for us at
the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Let us be
gone.

MONTRESOR: Yes, let us be gone.

FORTUNATO: For the love of God, Montre-sor! (SFX: The Big

Reveal)
(silence)
MONTRESOR: Fortunato!
(silence)
MONTRESOR: Fortunato!
(SFX: Jingling of bells)
MONTRESOR: I thrust a torch through the remaining
aperture and let it fall within. My heart grew sick - on
account of the dampness of the catacombs. I hastened to
make an end of my labor. I forced the last stone into
position; I plastered it up against the new masonry. I
plastered it up against the new masonry. I re-erected the
old rampart of bones. For half a century no mortal has
disturbed them. In pace, requiescat!
(DJ script)