Princess Caraboo by Phil Willmott & Mark Collins
Author:Phil Willmott & Mark Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
End of Act One
ACT TWO
Scene 1
The company sing –
“TRUTH”
ALL
THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP.
YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
DRINKING FROM THE LIAR’S CUP.
IF IT’S EASY TO SWALLOW
BEWARE OF THE STING.
A ROGUE CAN MAKE YOU, WITH A SMILE,
BELIEVE IN ANYTHING.
HATTY
SO WHO IS WHAT?
AND WHAT IS WHO?
ALL
AND WHO’S BEEN TELLING LIES TO YOU?
SIR CHARLES WORRALL
IF WE CAN’T TRUST THE ONES WE LOVE
THEN WHAT IS LOVE ABOUT?
THE COWARD’S WAY IS TRUST NO-ONE
AND TRY TO CATCH THEM OUT.
BUT THE BRAVER GIVES THE STRANGER
THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT.
NOT EVERYONE’S DECEITFUL
THEY CAN LOOK YOU IN THE EYE.
ALL
MOST PEOPLE WANT THE BEST FOR YOU –
WAIT! WE TELL A LIE.
THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THEN FICTION
YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP.
YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
DRINKING FROM THE LIAR’S CUP.
MR IGEL
IF IT’S EASY TO SWALLOW
BEWARE OF THE STING.
OSVALDO AGATHIAS
A ROGUE CAN MAKE YOU, WITH A SMILE,
BELIEVE IN ANYTHING.
ALL
SO WHO IS WHAT?
AND WHAT IS WHO?
AND WHO’S BEEN TELLING LIES
TO YOU?
SIR CHARLES WORRALL
WELL, ARE YOU ALWAYS HONEST, PRAY
IN ALL YOU SAY AND DO?
LORD MARLBOROUGH
WHEN WE NEED TO WIN THE DAY WE
LIE TO GET US THROUGH.
LADY ELIZABETH WORRALL
IS THE FACE YOU SHOW THE WORLD
THE REAL FACE OF YOU?
PRINCESS CARABOO AND EDDIE
YOU SHOULDN’T JUDGE A LIAR,
IT COULD BE YOU WHO’LL FIND
THE TRUTH’S A LITTLE TRICKIER
WHEN YOUR LIES UNWIND.
ALL
THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THEN FICTION
YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP
YOU’D BETTER BE CAREFUL
DRINKING FROM THE LIAR’S CUP.
IF IT’S EASY TO SWALLOW
BEWARE OF THE STING
A ROGUE CAN MAKE YOU, WITH A SMILE,
BELIEVE IN ANYTHING.
SO WHO IS WHAT
AND WHAT IS WHO
AND WHO WILL YOU BE LYING TO?
SIR CHARLES WORRALL in a spotlight.
SIR CHARLES WORRALL “How little it takes,” writes Aracticus in the third century BC “to perpetrate a myth. Why, sometimes, one need only lend a slight nod, a gentle smile or even, merely one’s presence to aid the transition from local myth to universal legend.”
He goes.
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