Vorwand
A play written by Jack Hanswof, during his years with Carab, to whom he was a great friend.. This tale that Hanswof told was a classic that many of Carabs friends would play to keep themselves in good spirit. Due to the confined spaces in which they performed the actors didnt move much. Some lines are not translated because a translations could not be found This play is still played through out New Florida. Translated by Kerry Brown, from German to English after Carab gathered together the people of New Florida together.
Laios is the first friend Carab comes across in the play, this scene depicts it, though Laios died when Hanswof wrote this. Carab at the moment is in rags and Laios, who was dressed in colorful garments, has only one mutation, which gave him longer limbs.
Scene 1
[enter Laios]
Laios: Wo es ist?
Wo es ist mein licht
What could this be that drains me so deep
[enter Carab]
Carab: come now friend, dont be so sad, your melancholy would spread to us all
Laios: how can I not be sad, in all this dread, and all this suffering
Carab: do not see the suffering my friend, see the beauty, is it not beautiful that this hand is on an arm? Or this arm upon a shoulder? Or this shoulder below a head? Things may be as they are, but they are not hopeless friend
Laios: you speak like you know all with your third eye and perfect body, what do you know of suffering you are all but human
Carab: does it matter friend? What I am,
would my third eye blind me? Would my deformity strike down my essence
Laios: you speak like a scholar and yet dress like a drab rouge fool, where do you come from
Carab: from here, this very spot, born here and 40 years ago
Laios: 40 years! How? did the heavens curse you with immortality, like those ghastly giants?
Carab: no heaven, no god cursed or blessed me with immortality and neither did those ghastly giants, I am a simple being, but no longer human
Laios: and would you say they are not ghastly?
Carab: as ghastly as you my friend
Laios: you would insult me? Three eyed demon!
[Laios moves to strike Carab]
Carab: hold friend, what trivial violence would you do to me, dear friend it is not as I say but as I mean, ghastly are you yes, but so am I, and so are those giants, just as ghastly and unjustly should they be you
Laios: you are a strange one indeed Carab, but still a three eyed demon
[Laios laughs]
and I am glad to be ghastly just as you are, dear friend indeed
[Laios and Carab embrace]
Carab: yes friend indeed, as all in all should be, and as all should end
[Carab addresses audience]
now you see, that those born under the fire and fallout of grace, deserve equal things, and equal dreams
OOC: can you guys give me some feed back on this, is this way of telling a story good? bad? just plan dumb?
