Nation Script

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NationPrologue

Daphne: I had to get back something terrible happened.

Mau: if I didn’t get back in thirty days

Daphne: 9 months

Mau: they came and fetched you and you’d never be a man. Not a real

man

Daphne: the British monarchy would fall and then where would theEmpire be

Mau: everyone would know you’d failed and you’d never get a wife

Daphne: everyone must know I’m a royal and obey my command

Mau: f you did she’d be one none of the real men wanted with bad teeth

and smelly breath.

(Mau finds an axe and a tree with markings where the other Boymen have

shown their strength.)

Mau: (taking the axe and swinging at the tree! the ne"t boy to pull this

out will deserve to be called a man. #EN $E%& '($E) #EN*

BANG (there is an enormous roar as the volcano erupts funky lighting

loads of noise casually destroying the set aphne on the ship and Mau on

the island. !or a moment they see each other and make eye contact)

Mau: $ello+.. (Mau collapses)

Daphne ,as echo!: $ello+ hello repeat till he sleeps



Scene 2 – the new world

"ust the sound of the tide Mau settles to sleep

Voice of the ancestors: -hat are you doing #au

Mau is restless in his sleep

(his is no time to sleep there is lots to be done

Mau: who are you

Ancestor: I am the ncestor... /ou must restore nation

Mau: But I don’t know how

Ancestor: you must restore the culture

Mau: $ow do I do that I am not man I did not complete the ceremony

the volcano came and destroyed Nation +..

Ancestors: /ou must defend the Nation* /ou must do the things that

have always been done*

Mau: but there is 0ust me+.everyone else is dead. I’m nothing. I know

nothing. I am not man.

Ancestors: everything the Nation was1 you are. -hile you remember the

Nation lives

(Mau collapses again the ancestor leave a mug with the enscription

#weet "udy on it next to Mau with an orange in it Mau wakes with a start

looks at it with curiosity tries to sound out the letters $ut pronounces

them all wrong grandfather $ird (puppet controlled $y aphne) appearsand circles like a vulture).

Mau: 2o on then have it 2randfather bird the ancestors said you were

good luck so I cant shoo you away.

(the $ird s%uawks hops over and rolls the orange with its $eak turning

round to motion its head to follow).

'hh why not there is nothing else to do here

( he follows the $ird until it suddenly disappears!

$ey wait *** (hey look like footprints but+they have no toes. 3trange( looks up and sees a large sail)



Ancestors : /ou have not restored the culture. /ou have not restored

Nation. 3end the dead to sea to become dophins.

Mau: I’m dead ancestors I have no soul I never became man.

Ancestors: /ou’re not good enough to be dead.

Mau turns round to head $ack except the grand father $ird is $locking his

path.

Mau: -hat

(!or a moment $oy and $ird stare at each other the $ird pecks his foot

and s%uawks).

Mau: oh all right ( the $ird flies off as Mau heads to the ship wreck)

Scene 3 – Finding Erintrude!Daphne

&here is a sound of indistinct singing from the ru$$le of the ship

Mau enters tripping over ru$$le on the way drawing attention to himself

from a figure all in white who ha appeared

At the same time

Mau : ,to audience!I’m not alone 1 there is a trouserman girl.

Daphne: I kn4know how to use this***

Daphne: 'ne more step and I will pull the trigger '.(Mau looks at her

$lankly) 5on’t think I’m afraid I’m not*** (Mau innocently steps towards

an o$ect that has caught his eye) 5o you not understand I am from the

British royal blood line I6m 78th in line to the throne so you will obeyme'(change of tone) #y father will be hear soon

Mau:ahhh so she wants me to have the metal thing

Mau reaches out to tke the gun.daphne scrams pulls the trigger and

closes her eyes. &here is a small pop a few sparks aphne drops the gun

at her feet.

Mau: you have no toes*** (aphne doesn*t respond+ he $ends down spicks up the gun start sniffing it ! pheww



Daphne: must be a local custom

#au: , satisfied he knows what its for looks at the gun aphne and the

exit) thank you for his gift of fire** , Exit)

5aphne: I’m sorry what -ait where are you going

Scene " Eti#uette

Daphne: where is my bo"+. (,ummaging around the wreck+ she finds a

$ook and then the writing $ox) Now lets see what my Book of etiuette

3uggests (reading)

; -hen inviting a young gentleman to afternoon tea one must alwayshave a chaperone present< well that’s a shame there is no one they have

all died+ it doesn’t say they have to be alive +. ;'ne must be

appropriately dressed and serve scones buttered with =lotted cream and

then strawberry 0am1 well I don’t have any 0am or cream But I could try to

make scones. I shall write him an invitation.(opens her $ox gets out a

%uill and a fancy invite.) well I6m not at government house anymore+.the

wreck of the sweet >udy. (o+ I don’t know his name ..bah blah blah+

the honourable miss Ermintrude ?anshaw. I dubt he will be able to

understand +. I shall draw a diagram he might understand that'(she

draws. -uts everything away picks up another orange and tiptoes to

where Mau is sleeping leaves him the note and the orange then runs

away)

Ancestors: -ho is guarding the Nation -here is our beer

Mau: I don’t know*** I don’t know how + the women made beer.

nother orange (looking at the invitation) what the ,turns the

nvite over to the drawing side) ;-hen the sun is 0ust above the last tree

left on little Nation1 you must throw a spear at the big wrecked canoe-ell okay maybe I shall though why I 0ust don’t know. Now about the

beer the women used to make beer from maniac roots. It makes a good

beer or a deadly poison what decides that is the song. #aybe there is

some left in the women’s place+ ,goes off to find beer as grandfather

bird comes in and once again plays with the orange #au comes in with

beer and leaves in coconut which the bird promptly drinks then flies off

in a drunk fashion possible into tree!

Scene $ – Afternoon teait is evening Mau finds a spear and throws it at the wreck



Daphne: ,off stage! do come in It’s a bit of a mess I6m afraid

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