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Failing
Changes
A Play by Lizzie Tye
Performance:
May, 2002
Thornton High School, Daly City
Time:
Night, Summer
Place:Middle of the night sky, the satin sky.
The color is midnight blue, other stars
whispering, the smell of the perfume of the angels,
the roar of airplanes, the summer breeze warm yet
cool.
At Rise: Dad, the moon, and Starlet, a star,
sitting in the sky
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Come Starlet
I have something to say, and I think it will make my
dear daughters day.
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| Starlet: |
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(walking
towards her Dad)
Ok.
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Remember
my dream of taking the animals out of the sea and replacing
them with stars. Now that I have my dream, I’m
able to give you yours. |
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| Starlet: |
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Oh, Daddy,
I want for nothing more than to be the brightest star
in the sky, and hear the people on earths reply.
Finally you’ll make me the center of attention,
and I’ll be the star everyone mentions.
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To make
your wish come true I’ll have to put you in the
sea, because up here in the sky, your mother the North
Star is the brightest star to be.
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| Starlet: |
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Dad,
you know my dream is to be the brightest star in the sky,
so I can be the one to catch the human eye. The
sea is not where I want to be, I want the spot where I
can be me. |
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Not
everything in life is gonna go your way, and in life there
are rules you have to obey.
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| Starlet: |
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In life
everyone lives for something. If my dream never
comes then I twinkle without reason, and for what do
I live through these seasons.
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Throughout
life you find new and better adventures, so stop, there’s
no need to whimper. For such a little star you have
a big temper, and I told you things go your way when you
"act" bigger. |
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| Starlet: |
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Bigger
I should act?! Bigger I am, and its a fact.
I’m not supprised you’d be the one to notice
last! A little girl I no longer am, and to let you
know now I refuse to be on land. |
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Remember
child I’m the father and if I say that’s where
you are, that’s where you will wander. I want
for nothing more than to make you happy, but sometimes
happiness can lead to a tragedy. The sea is where
you will be safe, so thats where you shall take your place. |
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| Starlet: |
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Dad,
your dreams have always came true, because your the king
of the sky, so make something happen for I, just think,
and sympathize. Put yourself in my shoes, and think how
you would feel, now wouldn’t you want to do something
before your time was due? |
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Think
about all of the childish things you do, capturing ghosts
in the night sky, screaming Boo! |
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| Starlet: |
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That
was just for fun, I promise those days are done. |
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What
about the planes you race in the sky, don’t say its
not true because you have no allaby. |
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| Starlet: |
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That
was just for exercise, so stop getting off the subject
dad, and compromise. Everyone says I look like my
mom, you have to admit, so in her place I want to commit.
Not exactly her I want to replace, but at least enter
me in the race. |
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Ha
Ha Ha Ha! Are you serious, let me check your head dear
you might have a fever and its making you delirious. Do
you know if your mother heard she would be furious.
Do you know your mother is eternal and eternal means forever,
so sit and think, be clever.
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Ok,
dad remember you said think clever, so what exactly do
you mean mom is forever. Do you mean she’s
eternal through no matter what, or it takes some other
force for her to destruct. Not saying thats what
I want to happen, but is that the only way she can become
fallen? |
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Why
would something like that cross your mind? When
I say eternal all you need to know is she’s there
til the end of time. |
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It seems
as if my dream you want to substitute, why can’t
you make my dream come true.
(aside)
Being high and bright in the sky, is the dream that’s
trapped in my mind. I wish my dad would just open
up and see, that the highest position in the sky is
for me. He thinks my mind I should change, so
to him my wish I try to explain, but everything remains
the same. I want to be the one the moving things on
earth look up to, so I can make their wishes come true.
(to Dad)
Now dad, maybe I’m insane, or I’m a girl with
a real good brain, but why don’t you remove mom
from her place. And when I say remove her from
her place, put her in the center of the sea where she
can have plenty of space.
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Now my child,
you do have a real good brain, and if I could for you
that’s the way I would make things change.
But until the end the North Star has to remain.
To be in that position it would take a decade to train.
You can’t put things on pause just to attend to
someones awe.
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| Starlet: |
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Dad!
A decade you speak, I’m not an eternal star, I
can die any day of the week! I could become a
fallen star within days, months, years, now what makes
you think this thought not brings me tears.
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Fallen
is something you shouldn’t fear, because in the sea
that’s a word you’ll never hear.
(he touches her face) |
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(she
pulls away)
Your right because in order to get down there, you have
to fall , and dad that’s something I don’t want
at all. Do you know my fear is to be fallen?
To fall means to exist no more, and forever I want to
endure. Just to live a short period of time isteasin’.
(pause) Now dad about that how are you feelin? |
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Starlet,
I would give anything to make you happy, and if there’s
anything else I can do just ask me, to give you the position
of the North Star I just can’t do, and that’s
something I didn’t choose. Eternity I want you to
have, because you have proved to me a bright star you
can last. As long as your brain remains bright,
so will the rest of your life. Throughout this conversation
I’ve had a change of mind, honey you’re not
immature you just have your own shine. The highest
position in the sky to you I can’t guarantee, but
I promise, you will be special to me. |
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| Starlet: |
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Dad,
those words made me look at you a different way so for
now Ima stop and this is the last Ima say. I wish I may,
I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight.
dad I wish you would make me the spot light. |
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The
End. |
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