ACT， I<br > Scene 1<br >SCENE: Classroom of the Zolile High School.<br >AT RISE: MR. M is at a table with THAMI and ISABEL<br > on either side of him. A lively inter-school debate is in<br > progress. EVERYBODY is speaking at the same lime.<br > ISABEL. I never said anything of the kind.<br > THAMI. Yes， you did. You said that women were<br >more...<br > MR. M. 1 call you both to order[<br > ISABEL. What I said was that women ...<br > THAMI.... were more emotional than men ...<br > ISABEL. Correction[ That women were more intuitive<br > MR. M. Miss Dyson and Mr. Mbikwanal Will you<br > both please ...<br > ISABEL. You are twisting my words and misquoting<br > me. . .<br > THAMI. 1 am not. I am simply asking you ...<br > MR. M. Come to order! (Grabs the school bell and<br > rings it violently. It works. Silence.) I think it is necessary<br > for me to remind all of you exactly what a debate is<br > supposed to be. (Opens and reads from a little black<br > dictionary that is at hand on the table.) My dictionary<br > defines it as follows: "the orderly and regulated discussion<br > of an issue with opposing viewpoints ~~alving equal lime<br > and eonsidermion." Shouting down the opposition so that<br >