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my life in a box

sealed with duck tape

Created on 2003-12-10 19:30:25 (#1524755), last updated 2007-08-09

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Birthdate:1986-05-28
Location:Blahontheworld, California, United States
Website:paperWINGS
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Fortinbras: Let four captains
bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage:
for he was likely, had he been put on,
to have proved most royally: and for his passage,
the soldiers' music and the rite of war
speak loudly for him.
Take up the bodies: such a sight as this
becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

(The Bodies are picked up: a peal of ordnance is shot off. A
dead march begins and continues until the stage is empty
except for the two Ambassadors.)

(Pause. The move downstage. They stop.)

Ambassador: Hm . . .

2nd Amb: Yes?

1st Amb: What?

2nd Amb: I thought you ---

1st Amb: No.

2nd Amb: Ah.

(Pause.)

1st Amb: Tsk tsk . . .

2nd Amb: Quite.

1st Amb: Shocking business.

2nd Amb: Tragic . . . (he looks in the direction of the departing
corpses) . . . four --- just like that.

1st Amb: Six in all.

2nd Amb: Seven.

1st Amb: No --- six.

2nd Amb: The King, the Queen, Hamlet, Laertes,
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Polonius. Seven.

1st Amb: Ophelia. Eight.

2nd Amb: King, Queen, Hamlet, Laertes, Rosencrantz,
Guildenstern, Polonius, Ophelia. Eight.

(They nod and shake their heads.)

(Looks about.) Well . . . One hardly knows what
to . . .

(From outside there is shouting and banging, a Man, say,
banging his fist on a wooden door and shouting, obscurely,
two names.)

(The Ambassadors look at each other.)

1st Amb: Better go and see what it's all about . . .

(The other nods.)

(They walk off together. The Tragedians' tune becomes
audible --- far away.)

(The house lights come up until they are as bright as the
lights on the empty stage.)



the original of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, copyright Tom Stoppard and Macmillan Press.

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