Main writer: Atiim Chenzira
Contributing writers: Bekka Fink & Sheryl Membane
Performed By Bekka’s frogland Orchestra
12/31/05
SETTING: bowls of water, water gardens, and ferns in a few spots on the stage. 1 or 2 bowls with dry ice for steam. An atmosphere deep in the land of Mother Earth.
Follow spot on Squirrel or Hummingbird, as she moves to the side of the stage, busy-busy style, whispering...
SQ/ HUMM: pssst, pssst...
there is a sheet on your seat
that you will need
so keep it neat keep the sheet on your seat!
keep the sheet on your seat! (fading out as stepping away)
Bass (DOLPHIN), heard playing sparsely in blackout Quickly into Pools of colored light, in this order, up on Hummingbird (purple), worm (pink), Squirrel (gold), Dolphin (blue), and Dragon (red), and green wash over the stage grows , as others join in musically. The sounds form a village, into the tribal song. A community in action, a festival of peace. Dolphin plays the rhythm, slowly building as each animal introduces him/herself
HUM: (HUM PLAYS) I am Hummingbird. Joy medicine. Love charms. I cannot be caged, for if I am, I will die.
HUM continues, stops as…
WHALE: (WHALE PLAYS) I am whale I am the primal sound of creation, the potent energy and vibration of the undivided waters.
WHALE, HUM stop as…
DOLPHIN: (DOLPHIN PLAYS ALONE) I am the keeper of the sacred breath of life, carrier of rhythm. Layers and stops continue…
WHILE Frogland-themed song begining to form
SQUIRREL: a whirling dervish devilishly packed back into a tree, waiting out the winter to a disco groove unfolded in the solitude of storage, waiting, sustenance from opulence by way of squirreling. I am Squirrel. I know how to survive the winter without getting fat...how to take that nut you dropped, to save and burn it to keep us hot in cooler times.
WORM: I am worm. The dragon of the dirt. Earth, death, dissolution, cringing. The simplest form, the beginnings, the ends. Stop for Dragon…
DRAGON: I am the Dragon. The keeper of stories and ancient secrets beyond remembrance. I have seen the Wormland shaped from words with spirit, words that brought light and darkness from and breathed life, and before that… The light and darkness that created motion… Everything was All and All was One!
Then MUSIC IN FULL MOTION…Fogland chorus chords with call and answer words beginning as DRAGON continues…
There was a time that Everything and All were and lived as One on the One, and All lived in and with Peace and All hadn’t known the fruits Worries Tree, nor have they seen his face or known his name. It was a time of great and magnificent explosions and creations.
Key change to F#, staying in Jam, then…
Slowly the music begins to change into CHAOTIC FORM, and builds to a cacaphony. DOLPHIN leads an abrupt end.
The lights transition into some darker place, some flickering, a change.
A long Silence.
Dragon: When the sky fell, Everything and One stopped remembering how to understand the Spirit and words had no meaning. Worry brought Confusion and Confusion brought Paranoia and Paranoia brought Greed and War infested the Wormland.
A repetitive theme begins on the bass.
Dragon and Worm move together in some kind of 2-sided coin.
WORM: Dragon, What do you want to stand for in this world?
DRAGON: What is your biggest fear, Worm?
To audience
WORM: Dragon, What do you want to stand for in this world?
DRAGON: What is your biggest fear?
HUM or WHALE: Now is the time to use the sheet on your seat. On one side write one word that is your greatest fear, the other, your divine purpose. Then pass it down to the aisle for SQUIRREL/WORM to gather.
ALL : (Chanting, layered over one another, in a whisper) one word. Stand for. Biggest fear. Write one word.
Then squirrel gathers, gathers gathers...
When SQUIRREL/WORM leaves to crete poem,
WHALE begins CHAOS AMONG US groove.
Drum beat is cue for full stage of light with a pool of color DS Center
DRAGON: There’s been a war for since I can remember your existence, since before your grandparents and your parents and family could remember.
WORM/DRAG: (together speaking)The world was created in Light and the Light is always present with Darkness, for they are twins.
DRAGON: Now… The balancing is in motion and the Wormland is in War, struggling to remember the name and face of Peace and remember the one.
DRAGON and WORM dance. A bit of singing
SQUIRREL: (returning) I dart down the months which running and dodging overtake, puffy tail whirring. The storing of lint (no protein), of poison (too slow), of pain (also), of pointlessness, dismissal, daily attrition, I cannot bear, cannot hoist up the tree and into the lairthis squirreling burden of collection, thoughtless care. I drop the weight and grab the treasure. Words we made together I voice. Squirrel reads the weaved words from the audience. ALL echo/ improvise some words as SQUIRREL/WORK reads
DRAGON: The many in the Wormland will either cleanse or destroy themselves….Create or destroy themselves…
In….In beautiful
ALL: CHAOS!........
DRAGON: In beautiful
ALL: CHAOS!.......
All sing/PLAY CHAOS AMONG US.
THE END
Contributing writers: Bekka Fink & Sheryl Membane
Performed By Bekka’s frogland Orchestra
12/31/05
SETTING: bowls of water, water gardens, and ferns in a few spots on the stage. 1 or 2 bowls with dry ice for steam. An atmosphere deep in the land of Mother Earth.
Follow spot on Squirrel or Hummingbird, as she moves to the side of the stage, busy-busy style, whispering...
SQ/ HUMM: pssst, pssst...
there is a sheet on your seat
that you will need
so keep it neat keep the sheet on your seat!
keep the sheet on your seat! (fading out as stepping away)
Bass (DOLPHIN), heard playing sparsely in blackout Quickly into Pools of colored light, in this order, up on Hummingbird (purple), worm (pink), Squirrel (gold), Dolphin (blue), and Dragon (red), and green wash over the stage grows , as others join in musically. The sounds form a village, into the tribal song. A community in action, a festival of peace. Dolphin plays the rhythm, slowly building as each animal introduces him/herself
HUM: (HUM PLAYS) I am Hummingbird. Joy medicine. Love charms. I cannot be caged, for if I am, I will die.
HUM continues, stops as…
WHALE: (WHALE PLAYS) I am whale I am the primal sound of creation, the potent energy and vibration of the undivided waters.
WHALE, HUM stop as…
DOLPHIN: (DOLPHIN PLAYS ALONE) I am the keeper of the sacred breath of life, carrier of rhythm. Layers and stops continue…
WHILE Frogland-themed song begining to form
SQUIRREL: a whirling dervish devilishly packed back into a tree, waiting out the winter to a disco groove unfolded in the solitude of storage, waiting, sustenance from opulence by way of squirreling. I am Squirrel. I know how to survive the winter without getting fat...how to take that nut you dropped, to save and burn it to keep us hot in cooler times.
WORM: I am worm. The dragon of the dirt. Earth, death, dissolution, cringing. The simplest form, the beginnings, the ends. Stop for Dragon…
DRAGON: I am the Dragon. The keeper of stories and ancient secrets beyond remembrance. I have seen the Wormland shaped from words with spirit, words that brought light and darkness from and breathed life, and before that… The light and darkness that created motion… Everything was All and All was One!
Then MUSIC IN FULL MOTION…Fogland chorus chords with call and answer words beginning as DRAGON continues…
There was a time that Everything and All were and lived as One on the One, and All lived in and with Peace and All hadn’t known the fruits Worries Tree, nor have they seen his face or known his name. It was a time of great and magnificent explosions and creations.
Key change to F#, staying in Jam, then…
Slowly the music begins to change into CHAOTIC FORM, and builds to a cacaphony. DOLPHIN leads an abrupt end.
The lights transition into some darker place, some flickering, a change.
A long Silence.
Dragon: When the sky fell, Everything and One stopped remembering how to understand the Spirit and words had no meaning. Worry brought Confusion and Confusion brought Paranoia and Paranoia brought Greed and War infested the Wormland.
A repetitive theme begins on the bass.
Dragon and Worm move together in some kind of 2-sided coin.
WORM: Dragon, What do you want to stand for in this world?
DRAGON: What is your biggest fear, Worm?
To audience
WORM: Dragon, What do you want to stand for in this world?
DRAGON: What is your biggest fear?
HUM or WHALE: Now is the time to use the sheet on your seat. On one side write one word that is your greatest fear, the other, your divine purpose. Then pass it down to the aisle for SQUIRREL/WORM to gather.
ALL : (Chanting, layered over one another, in a whisper) one word. Stand for. Biggest fear. Write one word.
Then squirrel gathers, gathers gathers...
When SQUIRREL/WORM leaves to crete poem,
WHALE begins CHAOS AMONG US groove.
Drum beat is cue for full stage of light with a pool of color DS Center
DRAGON: There’s been a war for since I can remember your existence, since before your grandparents and your parents and family could remember.
WORM/DRAG: (together speaking)The world was created in Light and the Light is always present with Darkness, for they are twins.
DRAGON: Now… The balancing is in motion and the Wormland is in War, struggling to remember the name and face of Peace and remember the one.
DRAGON and WORM dance. A bit of singing
SQUIRREL: (returning) I dart down the months which running and dodging overtake, puffy tail whirring. The storing of lint (no protein), of poison (too slow), of pain (also), of pointlessness, dismissal, daily attrition, I cannot bear, cannot hoist up the tree and into the lairthis squirreling burden of collection, thoughtless care. I drop the weight and grab the treasure. Words we made together I voice. Squirrel reads the weaved words from the audience. ALL echo/ improvise some words as SQUIRREL/WORK reads
DRAGON: The many in the Wormland will either cleanse or destroy themselves….Create or destroy themselves…
In….In beautiful
ALL: CHAOS!........
DRAGON: In beautiful
ALL: CHAOS!.......
All sing/PLAY CHAOS AMONG US.
THE END
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