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.Vaudevilliput: Story in 10 acts (& Intermission)	By : keithcompany Category: Titles in the Public Domain > Gulliver's Travels Views: 1437 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This is a work fiction,based on Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift.

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The final act before the intermission has to be flash. Things for the audience to talk about. Preferably in a format they recognize, so they’ll remember it longer. You don’t want anything experimental at Fifth, they get out of their seats wondering what they just saw. They’ll evaluate it, and you can’t be sure what they’ll end up concluding. John had selected a skit taken from Shakespeare. Risky, in that any kid was tortured in school with Shakespeare, but at least they would know what it was. The MC announced act five: “Romeo and Juliet…Some selected lines from Act Two, Scene Two, the Capulet’s Orchard.”
When the curtain rose, we saw a scene of trees, bracketed by two tall towers with balconies at either side of the stage. Everything in view was Lilliputian scaled. Romeo entered, a human male in traditional costume. He delivered the line that referred to something in scene one.
ROMEO: He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
He took a position at a balcony, looking at it with a puppy-dog smile.
ROMEO: (as an aside to the audience) But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair-
With a piercing whistle, a Lilliput Juliet draws his attention…to the other balcony. He spins and rushes to the bottom of her tower. His head is about a foot above her balcony.
ROMEO: Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
JULIET: Ay me!
ROMEO: She SPEAKS! O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head…
As he spoke this line, he realized that he’s supposed to be hidden down in the trees for this scene. He crouched, a bit.
ROMEO: As is a winged messenger of heaven, Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes, Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air.
She leaned over the balcony, looking anywhere but at the Romeo figure
JULIET: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
They both look out to the audience, like kids when they’re caught screwing up. Then shrugged and continued.
JULIET: Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO: A cup of what?
JULIET: A CAP-U-LET!
ROMEO: Oh, yeah.
JULIET: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part, Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
At this, he reached into the bushes and plucked up an entire rose bush for her. She recoiled from the muddy, thorny mass. He tossed it.
ROMEO: I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Juliet recoils as if this is the first time she’s heard a voice in her orchard….which is the way the play is supposed to go….
JULIET: What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night, So stumblest on my counsel?
As he was about as bescreened in night as a fire in a gunpowder factory, he guiltily hunched down again.
ROMEO: I know not how to tell thee who I am.
He hunched down further, tugging his cloak. It came loose and there, on his chest, was a nametag about three times as big as Juliet: “Hi! I’m ROMEO MONTAGUE!”
JULIET: Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?
He screeched and ripped off the nametag. Beneath it was another tag saying “Yep!”
ROMEO: Neither, dear saint, if either offends thee.
JULIET: How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,
ROMEO: Walls? Where are the walls?
JULIET: And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
ROMEO: Oh, THERE’s a wall.
JULIET: Ahem.
He stepped to the stone wall at the back of the orchard.
ROMEO: With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out,
His foot brushed a wall, it pitched over with a crash
ROMEO: And what love can do that dares love attempt, Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
JULIET: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
ROMEO: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye…Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, and I am safe.
He leaned over to look deeply into her eyes. Then he pulled out a magnifying glass to see her eyes.
She sighed, he sighed. The rush of air from his breath blew her back through the balcony door with a yip of surprise. He peered within, evidently she wasn’t coming back out again. Or she was glaring out with murder in her eyes. He started backing away, knocking over trees.
ROMEO: Um, yeah. Parting is such sweet sorrow, I’ll see you later, uh, on the morrow.
He backed into the other tower, knocked it over, tripped and fell. The curtains went down, the lights came up.
“And,” the MC said, “we’re at the intermission.”
“Fantastic,” I said. We woudn’t wait for the entire intermission, but we did have to pause while they swept up the orchard.
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.Vaudevilliput: Story in 10 acts (& Intermission)