Love in Vain in Love Play Script by Gillian Hiscott

Love in Vain in Love Gillian Hiscott A surreal fantasy by a bestselling author. This is a comedy based on the fable of Echo and Narcissus using a Swiss finishing school as a setting. The actors speak either in verse, or as a collective identity, or both and the play is great fun for group readings, as a teaching tool for young people, or why not turn it into a unique full production with music and dance? One thing is for sure - it will get everyone talking about it! Prices Note. All prices shown are now inclusive. No additional VAT is charged on Scripts, Library Reading Service or Performing Licences. Royalty Code F Script £5.00 Library Service £1.50 Performing Licence £45.00 per performance for Hall seating up to 150 Performing Licence £50.00 per performance for Hall seating up to 400 Please note that one Performing Licence is required for each performance. Buy Online Cast Summary Love in Vain in Love: 2M 5F Synopsis Genre is surreal fantasy. This is a comedy based on the fable of Echo and Narcissus using a Swiss finishing school as a setting. Music and dance may be added at the inclination of the director for a longer version. Some suggestions are made. ACT ONE The play opens with Gus as an airline pilot telling the audience the flight they have been on has just landed. This, and the end scene and the lead up scene to the end are an indication that the play appears to be written in reverse. The reasons for this are psychological for the audience - as are a great deal of the reasons for the way things are spoken and said in the play. The obvious collective identity and repeated conversations are a means of creating a unity between the actors which is thrown before the audience, thereby creating a pleasant atmosphere. First scene is a classroom with large picture window. Five women are present. Vera, under the guise of teaching the girls immortality by the use and examination of originality, uses her position to enable power hungry tendencies. The girls assume a common identity and share conversation, which centres on colours and reflections. Erica’s dialogue differs from the others in that she repeats backwards words from a sentence spoken by them. As the play unfolds it emerges that Erica is gifted and Vera see this as a threat. Dressed as a decorator, Neville arrives accompanied by Gus the “messenger” dressed as an airline pilot. Vera has enlisted Neville’s help in teaching the girls about reflections. His plan is to strip away the picture from the window on stage and reveal that underneath is a mirror. Also he brings with him a “game” modelled on draughts, which has a reflective statue to be claimed in order to win. Vera challenges Neville to play and the game becomes a power struggle between them throughout the play. The girls begin to suspect Vera’s motives but are afraid of her. In order to further discover Erica’s talents she makes them all individually display their abilities with music, dance and poetry. ACT TWO The set has been turned totally into reflective glass. Neville and Erica are discussing the merits of black and white and everyone plays about with the mirrors, with the aid of dance. Erica succeeds in getting a letter from her parents out of Gus which has been kept from her by Vera. The girls, with Neville, start to challenge Vera’s authority and she attempts to retain it. When Neville and Gus are having a conversation, Erica appears, repeating their conversation as an echo. It emerges that Vera has stolen the statue from the game and used it to operate on Erica’s vocal chords. Neville has formed an attachment to Erica and is upset about this. He then tries to turn the set back to a window. When the window appears, Erica jumps out of it. Vera appears clutching the statue and Neville takes and kills himself with it. His motive in this is not so much for love of Erica, but to win the game. Echo’s voice comes back out of the window. Neville also carries on talking after he is dead. This is to create an image of timelessness. The final scene - the cast are on board a plane with Gus speaking as pilot. The plane is underwater watching both salt and freshwater activities. Erica and Neville are now the stewards offering peaceful drinks and selling beautiful natural images. The plane is a “haven” capsule from the play, i.e. the world of destructive emotions. Therefore the last speech by Gus - which sounds is if it should be the opening scene of the play is the one the audience take home with them. Read Sample Pages Specifications Format: Paperback Pages: iv,31 Dimensions: A5 (148mm width x 210mm height) Publisher: Jasper Publishing Published: 2008 Language: English ISBN: 978 1 906997 00 7 Keywords Surreal Fantasy Links If you would like to include a link to this script, you can copy the following HTML and paste it into your own website. Link to this script in the Advanced Website: <a href=http://www.jasperpublishing.com/Products.aspx?ItemId=430>Love in Vain in Love, Gillian Hiscott</a> Link to this script in the Classic Website: <a href=http://www.JasperPublishing.com/StaticContent/430.htm>Love in Vain in Love, Gillian Hiscott</a>  Home   Advanced website with Shopping Cart

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