Scene 2

Scene 2
The Bull Fight
This is a scene with almost no dialogue. It opens with three people scattered, in the roles of Bull fighter, and the other 3 forming a "bull" but more like a caterpillar instead. The "bull" runs around, trying to run down the bullfighters. Gradually two of the fighters are run down, and as they are defeated, they add themselves onto the bull. It comes down to the final fighter
Bullfighter
Wait! (they both freeze) If I can't win the fight, who'll be left to stand againt the beast?

end scene

new series

So, for those who don't know (meaning pretty much everyone), I wrote a Group performance art play to submit for State Drama. And it's ok, but not up to its full potential yet. But I digress. I figure, since I barely post on this blog, I should take advantage of this and make it into a series. So I'm going to post my play, scene by scene, including any revisions that I make. Group Performance Art plays are insanely different from typical plays, so it might not make much sense at first to people who've never seen it performed. But I'm doing it anyway, and if you don't like it, too bad.

Against the Grain
by Me

Act One
Scene one
Scene One - Patty Cake

Open scene with the cast divided into groups of 2, sitting cross-legged on the ground across from each other (profile to the audience).

Couple 1
(unison) Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man

Couple 2
(unison) Bake us a cake as fast as you can

Couple 3
(unison) Peas porridge in the pot, nine days old

Couple 1
(hesitates, giving couple three an odd look with couple 2, then continues) And pat it

Couple 2
and mark it with a "B"

Couple 3
Some like it in the pot, nine days old!

The first two couples groan.

Boy 1
(whiny) Why won't you guys do it right?

Girl 1
Seriously, you guys ruin it for everyone!

Girl 2
Everyone would like playing with you more if you'd just do the same rhyme as everyone else.

Boy 2
Yeah, besides, who'd want to sing about peas when you could sing about cake?

Girl 3
Everyone always does patty cake. It's so boring now.

Boy 3
Yeah, don't you guys ever want to mix it up?

Couples 1 & 2
(gasp, then in unison) And stop being normal?

end scene

Possible senior quotes: And the winner is...

Even though only ONE person ever left any feedback on my list, I finally managed to choose a quote. I may or may not change it, seeing as the "official" deadline for them isn't until December. But, seeing how poetry is one of my few passions in life, I chose one pertaining to that. The quote who was finally selected is: "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind." BUT this does have a certain aura of lameness around it, so I am hotly debating mentally whether I should replace it with the colored pencil one, which seems to be a favorite. Or, as Jason so rightly pointed out, possibly the great deeds quote by Albert Camus. that's all. any opinions would still be greatly appreciated.

Lullaby

Back...forth...back...forth...
First this, then that,
Back...forth...back...forth...
polarized dancing, repelled, attracted
Back...forth...back...forth...
one end up, then it's down
Back...forth...back...forth...
First love, then it's hatred
Back...forth...back...forth...
I'm on the ground, into high as a kite
Back...forth...back...forth...
Your indifference buries, your smile grants flight
Back...forth...back...forth...
First cold then hot,
it's You are, then you're not
Back...forth...back...forth...
I'm frozen, I'm burned
once looked up, down I turned
Back...forth...back...forth...
Turned left, faced off right
bright as day, dark as night
Back...forth...back...forth...
Brim with passion like fire
empty, grave cold, ashen pyre
Back...forth...back...forth...
maybe chilled? maybe warm...
might be clear, it might storm
back...........forth...........
kind of fast, kind of still
then it all starts to build
back...
once was liquid, now as stone
forth...
and the rocking starts to slow..
back...
drowsy question
forth...
muffled answer
back...
fading music
forth...
statued dancer
back...
forth...
balanced...
peace