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The Interludes in Robin of the Forest:

Interlude 1 Dark-to-dawn forest dance.

Interlude 2 Wizard Greets the Sun

Interlude 3 Moths Aerial Dance.

Interlude 4 Setting for tea.

Interlude 5 Walking to Guineveres. could serve tea

Interlude 6 Animal Band: Forest night with fire glow.

Interlude 7 Animal Band plays My Lagan Love

Interlude 8 The Entertainment and Foxfire Speaks for Forest

Interlude 9 Playing with the Audience

Interlude 10 Epilogue

Interlude 1 Dark-to-dawn forest dance.

[From darkness to Red dawn. Music. The Greenwood trees

branches move and sigh. In the predawn shadows creatures

leap about the forest landscape. Forest characters and the

Animal Band can remain in scene when the EcoMystics are

present. The owl puppet, Balthazar, flaps its wings. Robin

stands in bangarang fashion and crows (i.e. fists on hips,

legs apart, chest up). All disappear except a moth puppet

(operated by Moth) fluttering around the poster and a fox

puppet (which is actually Foxfires fox hat) watching the

moth from his hole. Music down.]

Interlude 2 Wizard Greets the Sun

Moth: That human has the spark of seeing.

[The tree moves. Merwood appears in the trees crevice. He

holds a stone bowl burning incense. Moth, Robin and Foxfireenter wearing masks. Robin wears a Green Man mask. Other

forest creatures can move about. The Animal Band plays a

morning song.]

Merwood: Love be all and life my call! Unseen forces of

life! Help humans see wild entities. Lift the veil of dull

circumstance. Awaken deep-magic sentience. Cast wide the

doors of perception. Knit and weave consciousness till all

pass beyond believing into forever seeing. Drink in the

first rays of the Sun! Welcome Sun!

All: Welcome Sun! [Morning song continues. Lights brighten.

Sunrays stream over audience. Merwood disappears back intothe Greenwood tree. Characters lift their masks. Fox chases

Moth around. She is playful but wont let him catch her.

She climbs the silks up into the tree.]

Interlude 3 Moths Aerial Dance.


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[Robin plays a tune on his pipes. The Animal Band plays

with him. Moth aerial dances for Peter. Marian walks on to

this tune.]

Interlude 4 Setting for tea.

[As they exit. Music under. Moth is hanging garlands.

Forest creatures assist in adding vine and flower garlands

to the glade. Her voice can echo through the forest and she

can be off stage by the end of this. Images of the dream

may appear the screens. The Forest creatures may act this

out.]

Marian: I had fallen asleep at the Everlasting Wells on a

bank of violets. In my dream, I opened my eyes. The forest

around me had changed. The trees were magnificent, ancient.

I had the feeling I had traveled back in time. I wandered

into town. Everything looked so, was so, natural. A little

village made out of natural materials nestled at the edge

of the forest. The people I met there were happy and

friendly. They seemed too advanced for me to believe I was

in the past. I asked an old man what year it was. He told

me I was in the future. [Echo: the future, the future.]

[Animal Band plays. The tea is set by Forest creatures. A

short break can be given to the audience especially if they

can be served tea! Merwood practices some enchantments on

the space. The table is a section of a tree set on stumps.]

Merwood: [Music continues.] Come Spirit of the Forest.

Infuse our hearts. Love and life be all. Forest hear my

call.

[Afternoon. Music soft under and in and out through out thetea party (same theme as the ending song). Moth and Merwood

sit at the table that is spread with fresh berries, edible

flowers, leaves, cheeses, honey and wine. The cups are hand

hewn. Plates are leaves. Moth has flowers in her hair and

places a lay of flowers around Merwoods hat. She gives

similar presents to the other guests as they arrive. The

audience can receive flowers as well.]

Interlude 5 Walking to Guineveres.

[Music. If we see them walking off, they walk slowlylooking around them at everything. Seeing it all alive. The

music is My Lagen Love. And Guinevere sings little rifts

of it as all exit. (Note: It would be awesome to get the

rights to Fight Test by the Flaming Lips and play it here

for the audiences exit.)]


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Interlude 6 Animal Band: Forest night with fire glow.

[A song. Foxfire and Wendy dance. Robin plays in with the

band. They drink mead. And sing like the merry men of old.

Moth is teaching Peter to fly.]

Interlude 7 Animal Band plays My Lagan Love

[Guinevere sings. Others join her. The Forest responds.

Shadows grow deeper. Robin and Marian wander up. Others can

sing in with Guinevere in harmonies. (Lyrics by Joseph

Campbell, aka Seosamh MacCathmhaoil. Cast may choose to

sing only one verse; may use other versions; may re-write

or alter lyrics; may use other song, if so cut the

reference lines; may have a different character sing, if so

change Merwoods line to asking generally for a love

song.)]

Guinevere:

1*) Where Lagan stream sings lullaby.

There blows a lily fair.

The twilight gleam is in her eye.

The night is on her hair.

And like a love-sick lennan-shee.

She has my heart in thrall.

Nor life I owe nor liberty.

For love is lord of all.

2) Her father sails a running-barge 'Twixt Leamh-beag and

The Druim; And on the lonely river-marge She clears his

hearth for him. When she was only fairy-high Her gentle

mother died; But dew-Love keeps her memory Green on theLagan side.

3*) And often when the beetle's horn

Hath lulled the eve to sleep

I steal unto her shieling lorn And thru the dooring peep.

There on the cricket's singing stone,

She spares the bogwood fire,

And hums in sad sweet undertone

The songs of heart's desire

4) Her welcome, like her love for me, Is from her heart

within: Her warm kiss is felicity That knows no taint of

sin. And, when I stir my foot to go, 'Tis leaving Love andlight To feel the wind of longing blow From out the dark of

night.

5) Where Lagan stream sings lullaby There blows a lily fair

The twilight gleam is in her eye The night is on her hair

And like a love-sick lennan-shee She has my heart in thrall

Nor life I owe nor liberty For love is lord of all.

[*I recommend verse 1 and 3, only.]


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Merwood: No black roads will come to this sacred place.

Moth: This is the realm of footpaths and faeries!

Marian: All of us weave the fabric of reality.

Guinevere: We must trust.

Peter: And act.

Robin: Step into dreamtime. This is the forever moment in

which we live!

Scene 10 and Interlude 8 The Entertainment and Foxfire

Speaks for Forest

[On Merwoods cue, the Animal Band begins to play. And Moth

begins her aerial dance, lit by the cameras spotlight.]

Robin: [Bowing.] Thank you venturing out. The forest needs

you this night.

Marian: For your pleasure, an entertainment, by the

EcoMystics.

Merwood: [Lights flash paper.] The road is an illusion.

Free your minds of it.

Foxfire: Free me!

Peter: [Entering on stilts. He has made a costume change

into Pan. Hes on short stilts designed to look like goat

legs and is shirtless with little horns on his head.

Taunting the audience.] The only thing their minds are free

of is nature. Nature is a drive by for them! They can make

nature out of plastic and watch it on their digital screens

while they eat prepackaged food in their air-conditioned

mansions. [Peter prances over to Foxfire still tied to the

tree.] Nature must be tamed, tied up, imprisoned!

Foxfire: [Looks up into the branches and howls a moaningfox cry. Merwood throws faerie light on him.] Howl!

Peter: The Forest wants to speak, to be heard.

Foxfire: I speak with the voice of the forest!

Robin: The town wants to run a road through the forest.

What does the forest want?

Foxfire: To run a forest through the town!

Robin: Run a forest through the town! Yes, yes! Run a

forest through the heart of the town!!

Merwood: Truly, the Forest has spoken.

Wendy: Run the forest through the town. What a mind bomb!

Guinevere: I think we could make that happen.Marian: The tourists would love it.

Lance: Wouldnt you have to tear up some roads to do that?

Peter: What a great idea! Rip up some roads for once!

Interlude 9 Playing with the Audience


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[Animal Band plays. The song is similar to the tea party

dancing song.]

Foxfire: [Leading the chant.] Run the forest through the

town!

All: Run the forest through the town! [Repeat. Players with

tree branches, drums and instruments enter the audience.

Garlands and small fir branches are passed out to the

audience. All dance and stomp!]

Guinevere: Arthur? Arthur is that you? I saw Arthur.

Cast: [Various] Arthur! Are you Arthur?

Moth: [Pulling possible Arthurs from the audience.] Dance

with us? Wouldnt you rather run a forest through the town?

[The rest of the EcoMystics return to the stage. Moth joins

Merwood, Robin, Foxfire. Peter joins them. The actors

playing Guinevere, Marian, Wendy, and Lance approach the

stage. Song winds down.]

Merwood: Love be all and life my call! Now only wise hearts

shall see entities surrounding me. [Merwood backs up to thetree crevice. His costume that he changed into for the

celebration creates the illusion that he is the Greenwood

tree itself. Robin once again wears his Green Man mask. In

his position by his bivouac, he seems to blend in with the

bark and moss becoming a part of the forested scene.

Foxfire pulls his mask down and peers around the base of

the tree appearing to be a fox. Moth climbs to the tree

house. She has her moth puppet on a string. She acts the

puppet. Peter dances around them on his Pan stilts. The

other characters come onto the stage slowly seeing only

nature not the humans. They look at one another and thenturn toward the audience. They raise their branches and

pose as trees. Peter leaps among them. Gesturing to the

audience to raise their branches. Silence. Late

night/predawn forest sounds.]

Interlude 10 Epilogue

[Lit by Moonlight spotlight. Moth swings in a white hoop

that looks like the moon. She speaks to the audience.]

Moth: Our troubles are never ending

If I say its over, Im pretendingLet us sleep, we are all dreaming

Wake us up, whilst still believing

Earths life is deep

Our lives are fleet

The entertainment of an evening

blinks across your streaming mind

asking you in all simplicity


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to skip to home with its revelry

I live in branches of trees in spring

and in the warm mud caves in winter

Like Moth you love the change the moon brings

Fly through this night on gossamer wings.

[She dances leaving moonlight: her hoop.]

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