- Enter through main doors (under balcony) as teenager breaking into a found building
Atmosphere: looking, discovering, interested
- Investigating seats, looking at the walls etc
- Bird noises
- Exit as bird to I front of audience
ACT ONE -
Scene 1:
Pretending you are on a boat, swaying, shouting "I'm going to be sick"
Atmosphere: tense, scared, there's going to be a ship wreck
See wave watch it splash above us
Cox: Die! Die! Die!
- Swirling to floor as unconscious body beginning to drown
Scene 2:
Nation: Imo made the sea.... Imo made the fish
- Wispered breath chanting
Come up to kneeling facing Brinley
Dead faces
Tapping rythm on body
"Oh my son the nation are dead" - Holding face of someone else and your own, rip off face and scream
Atmosphere: scary, surreal, disturbing
Locahah - "ive come for you" - que to leave as a twitching zombie behind the audience
Locahah- "it won't be long..." Deep humming
Mau prepared fathers body - fade into background
Scene 6:
Ensemble swaying on the sides of audience, like the sea. "Shhh"
Mau: out there good men become-
In lines of 3 sway and separate right into a pair as people are carried through
Scene 8:
- Enter stage left being held by Isaac (Milo) and Fenton (Pilu)
Daphne: I'm so sorry. I- I- hopes you were someone else
- Breathing heavily as pregnant woman. Having outburst of cries
- Isaac (Milo) walks me up to the woman's place (Central to audience)
- Long walk to centre stage
- screaming desperately
Atmosphere- hysteric, pain, pregnant, surreal moment
Scene 9:
- In the woman's place
- Screaming throughout, gasping for breath etc
Daphne: I'll make sure that you and your baby live
- Met on teepee draws as I begin to have the baby
- yelling in pain, squating and moving across he floor
Atmosphere- animalistic, cow like giving birth, screaming, tired, yelping
- After birth daphne hands me the baby
- Lay down to sleep
- Run off with all of the other girls surrounding the woman's place (main doors) singing "Lalala"
- Split for Clay (Mau) to walk through to women
Scene 10:
Mau: and the waves and the sun and birth and death. And there's no reason for anything.
- Enter centre stage. Stage right
Milo: Quick. Help. Cahle. Twink-Ull
- Sit down
- Screaming 'aaaah' meaningful to loosing baby
- Remain sitting
- Enter the circle with girls and act as fire and water
Cahle: Oh. Twinkle hungry. He likes it.
- Feeding baby
Mau: We Must build shelters to keep off the rain and sun.
- Stand up looking for food and shelter
- Exit stage right singing a sailer went to sea
Scene 13:
Mau: If you like.
- Enter stage left with Taliah (Daphne) carrying Twinkle
Daphne: I'm going to say a prayer. Will you join me?
- Kneeling on the floor following direction of prayer
- Fade out to behind audience as chairs are set up for the next scene
Scene 14:
- Enter from stage doors
- In the arc shape at centre stage
Daphne: I'm going to fight Locahah this will not happen
- Form a circle beginning to chant
Marisgala: First you will heat in your body, then great cold.
- Walk back 5 steps
Scene 15:
- From corner stage swimming around as dream fish
- "I cant"
- From corner start picking fruit around the room
- Notice the telescope in centre stage
- Become a happy islander dancing
- Notice wave and run towards the stage exit
- "Daphne" appear on stage from behind audience
- "Not two coffins I'll" disappear back behind audience
Scene 16:
- Kneeling by Mau
- "Yes!" Extremely happy Daphne is alive again
- Exit behind the audience
INTERVAL -------
ACT 2
Scene 1:
- With twinkle walking around the atmosphere of islanders. Acting as if it's a working society
- Begin dancing with girls & picking food with islanders. Living in the moment
- Praise twinkle. The day is about him
- Laughing and smiling enjoying Twinkles birthday
- Join in humming happy birthday
- Mesmerised by the watch Daphne gives Twinkle
- Offended by Mau
Scene 2:
- Ensemble transition to cave
- Laying on floor moving from the spine gently in a semi circle around the cave steps
Scene 4:
- Leaning over balcony with Daphne and Twinkle
- Enter again through main doors with twinkle
- See dead body "Don't worry twinkle" covering his face and holding him in the chest not allowing him to see Ataba
Scene 5:
- Standing around the body of Ataba by main doors
- Slow solicitor/lawyer speech
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