PART IV ITALY
I, 1
In the forest
(The forest can be built with coloured strips of green cloth from ceiling or with a photo-video on the back and with actors masked like threes and like squirrels on stage and also among seats)[1]
( There are the voices of the forest: noise, wind, cries of animals; the squirrels also call each other )
Squirrel ( to other squirrels): See, see the princess Cleo, come, come and you, trees of forest, see with us!!!
(from the left Cleo and Emily get into stage; they walk and look at the landscape; they stop and sit down in the middle of stage).
C: ( crying with hands in the hair)
What we have to do, Emily, I really don’t know. It’s difficult for me; I am a girl not a queen! I don’t trust the Hermit! His words aren’t clear; have you see him? His look scares!
I think that your father is a good and a loyal servant of my parents and I believe in him. But… What must I do ?!?
E: (calm and encouraging )
Cleo, don’t worry, I will be with you for ever.
C: (arrogant)
You are with me…..But you aren’t me , you aren’t a princess… I am a princess.
This is not my life! The skate is far now, the ramp, the boy is far; the political affairs aren’t mine! I am not right to do something for my country….. not yet, I think|
E : (calm and encouraging, )
You are a princess, don’t say these words, you don’t know now it, but you will know what to have to do.
C: (doubtful and worried)
Emily. What do you say?!?
E: (hard)
This is an important moment for the country, you know, our country: the unrest could become a terrible thing; we , you must do something
C: (talking up)
Emily you are scaring me! You don’t understand , you can’t, you are daughter of servants
E: ( suffering and beginning to cry)
Why do you say this? Are you my best friend , or not?
(Cleo gets up and walks on stage nervously)
C: …yes, but…. you and I …aren’t the same thing
E: ( hurting and scaring Cleo)
I am not a princess but I think that the unrest will bring blood…..Blood will flow on the streets and my and your life will be very different …..
C: It ‘s true…
E: A terrible thing, a battle, you know, will come, a without end war for all of us;
C: OK I see, but I don’t know, I don’t know…..
E: (satisfied)
You don’t know, but I do. I’ll go to the chief of the unrest and I’ll convince him to talk to you to reach an agreement. Farewell
II, 1
In the throne room
(In the middle of stage a chair with a golden cloth; on the left a little table with chairs)
(A group of musicians are playing before the dialogue on stage)
(Cleo, the King and the Queen hugging and crying in the middle of stage)
C: I’m sorry, daddy, I have made a mistake, I had not understood what I was doing;
King: Cleo, why have you run away?
Queen: Oh Cleo, I and your father were desperate!
C: I apologize to you, dear dear daddy; I am making a lot of mistakes; I haven’t understood anything; the Kingdom is in danger; I was a little girl, a spoiled child; I was also arrogant with Emily!
King and Queen : Emily?
C: Yes, I have been very arrogant with her and she…now is with the chief of the unrest saving the Kingdom! she has a very strong heart, she is not afraid and is leading a very important mission for all us.
( a voice off says : Miss Emily and Sir Robin with his servant)
II, 2
C: Oh daddy, she is here!!
(Emily, Robin and a man with a long, dark cloak get into stage from stalls; when they are on the stage they curtsey each other; they sit down, first the King, after the Queen and then the others)
E: Cleo this is Robin, the chief
R: Princess, you are beautiful! I remember you, at the Ramp… I had believed that we would be friends…
C: (candid, hopefully)
I remember it too…I believed the same…
But… now… which are the news?
R: You have to know that I’m not an enemy; I don’t hate the Kingdom and the King.
King: …and the unrest? You said that this country must be destroyed, that another kingdom has to be built…and now…I don’t understand your words!
R: We have been forced … but now I think that a deal can be found
King: A deal?
Queen: Cleo, Emily: A deal?
R: Yes , a deal
Queen: What is a deal?...
Maybe it’s necessary something to think better…the tea can be served!
(While they are talking servants get into the stage with tea and stay behind the table; Cleo, Robin, the King and the Queen begin drinking tea)
( suddenly, secretly, Emily gets up, goes near a servant and puts furtively powdered nuts in the pastries)
(All drink tea and eat pastries)
( The King begins to touch his forehead and his stomach)
King: ( falls to the floor)
I can’t see anything, I have a lot of cramps, I am poisoned, I am poisoned!!!!
( Cleo is near his father, she is trying to save him and the Queen is fainting)
(Emily and Robin get up, hug each others and smile and in the same time Robin’s servant strips off his cloak )
Hermit: ( opens his arms)
Come near me, my dear sons…the Kingdom is ours at last. Robin, my dear, and you, beautiful Emily, look at your Kingdom!
( to servants)
I, the new King, order that the King, the Queen and Cleo go to the prison! Go!
( The servants drag the King and the Queen and Cleo follows)
E :( to Cleo, smiling with sarcasm)
At last you are learning what to be put down means!!!
III
The jail
(In the back a photo video of jail or a picture of window with bars; on the stage a little chair)
(The King is on the floor, the Queen is crying and Cleo walks on the stage)
Queen: (desperate)
Cleo, look at your Daddy, he is just breathing
Cleo: (calm )
Mom, don’t worry, I will be a Princess. I have been a little, silly girl; I will find the way of our freedom
( Cleo sits down, gets up, takes her head with her hands)
But now I don’t know which is.
(music, green and red light from the left, smoke; Coco Pedro gets into the stage )
Coco Pedro: ( his suit covered by golden beads)
Don’t cry, little Cleo. I am here
Cleo: ( open mouthed)
Coco Pedro !?!
Coco Pedro: Yes, it’s me
Cleo: (surprised)
But.. but…
Coco Pedro:
I have listened to your words, now you are a true princess, you have understood what is a princess. Don’t worry. Listen to me: don’t you know I am a wizard, no…!?!, I am “The” wizard, the biggest one!
I tell you this: there is only one way to save the King from death: finding in seven days three ingredients for an antidote to save him: one voluntarily given, one secretly stolen and one sacrificed
C: How can I find the three elements? I am here !
Coco : See (Coco lifts up the chair and suddenly he shows her a way to go out and takes out Cleo’s skate that is in his bag )
See, little Cleo, now on your skate you will fly to take what you have to find! Go!
(Black)
[1] The squirrels have to be here because they must know the history of unrest listening Cleo and Emily
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