← Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays
Chapter 73
Scene V
Wind instrument [A plain drop]
The Shepherd is discovered well to the left, piping for the Goat
Goat is dancing
Begin Princess rhythm Goat stops to listen, looks off to the right
Shepherd looks to the right
Goat crosses to extreme right, bows
Princess and retinue enter
Tap They halt
Tap The Shepherd kneels to the Princess, then dances for her
Stringed instrument
Drum roll pp. crescendo The Goat becomes alarmed
All turn and look to the right
Goat, on all fours, offers his back to the Princess
Shepherd induces
Princess to sit on Goat's back
Princess rhythm Goat exits, followed by Princess and retinue
Tap Shepherd folds his arms
Wazir rhythm Wazir's Court and Ghurri-Wurri enter from the right
Tap They halt
Tap Wazir points to Shepherd
Tap Vizier brandishes his scimiter
Drum roll Nubian approaches Shepherd
Drum crash Nubian falls
Drum roll
Crescendo
to Wazir shakes his fists
Points at Shepherd
Vizier attacks Shepherd with scimiter
Shepherd grasps scimiter
They struggle, conventionally, one, two, three, four, five, six
Drum crash The Shepherd falls
Drum roll The Vizier waves his scimiter aloft
Drum roll Wazir exults
Tap Nubian rises
Tap Wazir points to the right
Tap Vizier points at Shepherd with scimiter
Tap Nubian seizes the Shepherd
Wazir rhythm Wazir's Court and Shepherd exit at the right, ignoring Ghurri-Wurri, Nubian and Shepherd first, then Vizier, then Wazir. [All cross behind the drop to left of stage ready for Scene VI]
Drum crash Ghurri-Wurri stamps his foot
Drum roll Shakes his fists after them
Drum roll Runs to left and shakes his fists at the Princess
Drum roll Runs to right and shakes them at the Wazir
Runs to center and shakes them at the audience
Cymbal crash Lights out
Ghurri-Wurri exits
The drop is raised
Cymbal crash Lights on