Love, Ego, and a bit of Schizophrenia - Act I Scene I

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Bob
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since 1999-09-04

Posts 8

0 posted 1999-09-25 01:41 PM

Love, Ego, and a bit of Schizophrenia

Act I - Scene I

[Andy]
Good morrow Nathaniel, how do’st thou?

[Nathaniel]
The day is fine but my heart is empty.

[Andy]
Do you not enjoy being a bachelor?

[Nathaniel]
That is the trouble. It seems I can’t be
Happy in either state or frame of mind.
For now I am content to be alone.

[Andy]
Desire you not the love of a woman?

[Nathaniel]
I do but I don’t, so now I am free.
And what a freedom it is, you know it?

[Andy]
I have been so ‘free’ my entire life.
But how could I know how lucky I am
If I have not had love of a woman?
You say it is so nice to be alone,
So why can’t I enjoy it while I can?

[Nathaniel]
Perhaps I know you all too well my friend.
The only time you like to talk of this
Is when you do fancy a certain girl.
Do tell my friend, you must b’cause I now know.
Your silence is underwhelming, please speak.

[Andy]
If you must know, my heart is lost with Becki.

[Nathaniel]
I once agian have proven to be right.
O Andrew I can read you like a book.
So if your heart does long for this Becki,
Pursue her now and know my freedom.

[Andy]
Why do you say such things against women?

[Nathaniel]
The last one I did try to woo was wrong.
She constantly wanted all of my time,
She did not have a girlfriend to cry to,
And so instead she cried upon poor me.
I say this not to discorage you from
This noble goal, but to instead warn you.
For love is but a beast that prowls around
And seeks to make the strongest men so weak.
Go off and woo but always thing of this,
Being alone does also have its bliss.

exit

[Andy]
Why cannot he make my job easier.
Blast! Here comes the maiden Becki now.

Becki
[Becki]
Good day Andrew, and how are you doing?

[Andy]
I happen to be alright for now. Please tell me
how has you day been?

[Becki]
It’s good, I have something that I must ask.
I wished to go sweet Jeannie’s tonight,
But am without a suitable escort.
Would you care to join me?

[Andy]
Why yes. I would always enjoy the company of
one so pleasing, pleasant as yourself. I do believe
I know the way, but may have to wait a while
for my transportation. Do you still wish to go with
me or shall I allow another sir the honor of escorting
you to Jeannie’s gathering tonight?

[Becki]
You will suit me well, just work on your speech.

[Andy]
That I will do my lady. I will see you when the
clock strikes seven. Good day till then.

[Becki]
And I wish you a good day as well.

exit

[Andy]
How fortunate am I that she would come to me.
She is more lovely than I ever thought.
I just wish that my fluent speech would work
When she is in my presense. O Cupid,
Why does you arrow not only cause love
But a stupidity as well. Be gone.
I fear you may be right Nathaniel.
Unfortunately no warning could work
On me in my present state of being.
If when I am with Becki I am lost,
I hope that I will ne’er be found again.

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

1 posted 1999-09-25 01:51 PM

A wonderful work in progress. I would very much like to see the continuation, if at all possible.

Alicat

DarkKnight
Junior Member

since 1999-09-23

Posts 12

2 posted 1999-09-25 05:06 PM

What woeful look doth lovers ply
when truth and logic do deny,
and grasping faintly at hearts quite slim
do lose their grasp and fall straight in;
for dire confusion, mass and grave,
hath claimed the lives of many a knave.

I ask only if there will be more...such a story...I've never written a play about life, a play about lovers, a play at all. I am inspired to take this into my own perspective and write my own... Nicely done, but perhaps you should edit your work for errors.

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She walks in silence and waits in shadow. She is my lady and my angel.

JohnDoe82
Junior Member

since 1999-08-04

Posts 42
MO, USA

3 posted 1999-09-26 09:05 PM

An interesting piece, you might want to work on the switch from blank verse to prose to be more obvious, but a funny scene.

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