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SILENCE
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#SILENCE
A NOTE ON SILENCE
Silence is an African Classical Tragedy. A fictional and imaginative work woven out of circumstances that makes the characters products of society either through fate or flaws leading to their downfalls.
CHARACTERS
NARRATOR
OGUN - The king
OTAKHO - The queen
CHIEF PRIEST
IDEHEN / EDO - The twin princes
THE CHIEFS
ETIN - A guard
IRO Ogun's favourite guard
SERVANTS
MAN
PROLOGUE
Choral singing fills the stage, flooding in it high velocity, drumming and symbolic sound-effect embraces, slaps off the deep-silence like cloak covering the beauty of the moment vibes.
Light appears on stage, reveals a woman dressed in royalty but struggles with three men in black who pulls her to backstage.
Moment later, a deep cry is heard which has it source from backstage. Suddenly, the woman once dressed in royalty comes out dressed tatteredly, weeping profusely without consolation and blood drips from in between her thighs.
Presently, NARRATOR appears on stage, briefly looks at the woman, shakes his head in a sad mood and then turns to address the audience.
NARRATOR:
Silence! They say is golden. When the end of silence is tragic, the tears of it becomes more flooded than even the waters of oceans. Can silence be loud? When silence becomes loud, the best silence observer becomes the most foolish fool. That is the struggle in EHOR KINGDOM.
(Light out).
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Before the king is the Chief priest who is in a state of divination (He looks through a horn that looks cow. Then, he faces the king.
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, may you reign forever. Can the tortoise survives without it shell? And what does chameleon really understands about colour before the peacock?
OGUN:
Wise one, you speak in parables and proverbs. How do you expect me to understand the coded language of the gods, when I am nothing before them.
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, why will a crow, the evil bird decides to incubates another bird eggs? What happened to her own?
OGUN:
You still talks in parables. I beseech you, tell the king the future you have seen for this kingdom. I cannot watch this kingdom comes to ruin. It never happened to my forebears.
CHIEF PRIEST:
A sacrilege has been committed and if the gods are not appeased with human sacrifices, pain, death, misery and calamities will before this Kingdom. Atonement is demanded by the gods, my king.
OGUN:
Chief Priest, How many human sacrifices and besides, who is responsible for the calamities that is about to fall on us greatly like unpleasurable rain?
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, our father says "No matter, how hungry he is to eat tortoise, if all tortoise has gone into extinction saved one for sacrifice, he will never eat the one saved for the gods. My king, the eagle choses what to eat.
OGUN:
What do you mean by that riddle?
CHIEF PRIEST:
(In sad mood) My king, will the hen able to bear the devouring of it children by the hawks and before the hawks? Most especially all.
OGUN:
Please can you just spill the mystery.
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, the words of the gods is too heavy for me to spill. Will my King's vessel has the capacity to hold it?(He looks up like someone in a trance). My king, your sons are the chicks....
#SILENCE
A NOTE ON SILENCE
Silence is an African Classical Tragedy. A fictional and imaginative work woven out of circumstances that makes the characters products of society either through fate or flaws leading to their downfalls.
CHARACTERS
NARRATOR
OGUN - The king
OTAKHO - The queen
CHIEF PRIEST
IDEHEN / EDO - The twin princes
THE CHIEFS
ETIN - A guard
IRO Ogun's favourite guard
SERVANTS
MAN
PROLOGUE
Choral singing fills the stage, flooding in it high velocity, drumming and symbolic sound-effect embraces, slaps off the deep-silence like cloak covering the beauty of the moment vibes.
Light appears on stage, reveals a woman dressed in royalty but struggles with three men in black who pulls her to backstage.
Moment later, a deep cry is heard which has it source from backstage. Suddenly, the woman once dressed in royalty comes out dressed tatteredly, weeping profusely without consolation and blood drips from in between her thighs.
Presently, NARRATOR appears on stage, briefly looks at the woman, shakes his head in a sad mood and then turns to address the audience.
NARRATOR:
Silence! They say is golden. When the end of silence is tragic, the tears of it becomes more flooded than even the waters of oceans. Can silence be loud? When silence becomes loud, the best silence observer becomes the most foolish fool. That is the struggle in EHOR KINGDOM.
(Light out).
ACT 1 SCENE 1
Before the king is the Chief priest who is in a state of divination (He looks through a horn that looks cow. Then, he faces the king.
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, may you reign forever. Can the tortoise survives without it shell? And what does chameleon really understands about colour before the peacock?
OGUN:
Wise one, you speak in parables and proverbs. How do you expect me to understand the coded language of the gods, when I am nothing before them.
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, why will a crow, the evil bird decides to incubates another bird eggs? What happened to her own?
OGUN:
You still talks in parables. I beseech you, tell the king the future you have seen for this kingdom. I cannot watch this kingdom comes to ruin. It never happened to my forebears.
CHIEF PRIEST:
A sacrilege has been committed and if the gods are not appeased with human sacrifices, pain, death, misery and calamities will before this Kingdom. Atonement is demanded by the gods, my king.
OGUN:
Chief Priest, How many human sacrifices and besides, who is responsible for the calamities that is about to fall on us greatly like unpleasurable rain?
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, our father says "No matter, how hungry he is to eat tortoise, if all tortoise has gone into extinction saved one for sacrifice, he will never eat the one saved for the gods. My king, the eagle choses what to eat.
OGUN:
What do you mean by that riddle?
CHIEF PRIEST:
(In sad mood) My king, will the hen able to bear the devouring of it children by the hawks and before the hawks? Most especially all.
OGUN:
Please can you just spill the mystery.
CHIEF PRIEST:
My king, the words of the gods is too heavy for me to spill. Will my King's vessel has the capacity to hold it?(He looks up like someone in a trance). My king, your sons are the chicks....
