Friday, June 4, 2010

Metamorphosis

written entirely in ELIZABETHAN - OMG.
Marissa and I were supposed to be working on geography, but instead, we performed.
it's the best play since Twelfth Night.
we hope you like it.


WRITER - Christina (with special thanks to marissa)
PERFORMERS - Christina and Marissa

CHARACTERS:
Thyme (caterpillar)
Fallacy (caterpillar)



ACT 1, SCENE 1

(music starts, music stops)
M: (sitting on chair B, looking in distance) O Fallacy, our dainters art thou attending.
C: (offstage) For the light of day is infinite, Thyme, play the waiters.
M: My hand is weary of petting, arrive in time! (frustrated)
C: In time, O Thyme.
Exeunt Thyme



ACT 1, SCENE 2

M: (arriving at the podium) Good light, oh clients. As we are the largest caterpillars at the jardin, we address thee with satisfaction.
C: (following after Thyme) There are no requirements for anxiety, we shall not be largest much longer. Others will soon feel the joys of the gigantic.
M: Eat all in sight, grow large as we!
Exeunt Thyme and Fallacy



ACT 1, SCENE 3

C: (in chair A) How fantabulous 'tis that we're the fairest!
M: (in chair B) If only we could remain this state for time longer, O Fallacy!
C: If only, if only. i've heard rumours, won't you repeat?
M: Our parts become rigid, no room to move.
C: And after, O Thyme?
M: You escape, eventually?
C: Become a flying being? perhaps.
M: O, fortasse, Fallacy.
C: But how long until? 'twas two years, non?
M: O fortasse, 'twas been two years passed! No requirements for anxiety, if children, if we.
C: If we fall, we fall together, non?
M: O, perhaps. O Fallacy!
Exeunt Thyme and Fallacy



ACT 2, SCENE 1

M: I woke up in unfamiliar skin, O Fallacy.
C: likewise, O Thyme.
M: Weary.
C: Almost eccentric.
M: How's life?
C: Not pleasant, not grand, as all time.
M: What will become?
C: Mystery, O Thyme.
M: Misery!
C: Let's be hopeful.
Exeunt Thyme and Fallacy



ACT 2, SCENE 2

M: OH! THE AGONY!
C: 'TWAS WORSE THAN WE PREDICTED!
M: O FALLACY!
C: O THYME!
Slowly exeunt Thyme and Fallacy



ACT 2, SCENE 3

C: How now, Thyme? is living as free familiar to thee?
M: Not as much!
(both start flying around, music starts!)
C: Our suffering, O Thyme, paid us well.
M: we can fly to thy world's ends, to thy heart's content!
C: Misery, not as much! how living as fat is not great as with wings.
M: wings are not to be living without,
C: free to explore life, in general!
M: O Fallacy! How fantabulous is color! like rebirth.
C: Metamorphosis, O Thyme.
M: To familiarize such beauty, not easy, how lovely art thou, O Earth!
C: O thyme!
M: O Fallacy!
(music starts, music stops)
Exeunt Fallacy and Thyme

watch the performance!

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