Clown Pieces - BOOK III
BOOK III - Consummation
Chapter III: Starting to Weave
Chapter IV: Burning Down the House
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CHAPTER INDEX
BOOK III - CONSUMMATION
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Chapter I: The Wind Prevails
At the gunshot,
lights up dimly on the Match Girl.
The Match Girl is dirtier.
Her dress is a bit more torn.
She freezes when she hears the gunshot.
She is crying now.
The Princess agonizes over the body as well.
The two women mirror each other's movements, such as weeping convulsions.
Then suddenly the princess freezes and stops crying.
She lifts her head from her palms, and looks toward the Match Girl, who is still weeping.
The focus of light begins to shift towards the Match Girl.
The Match Girl lifts her head from her palms.
We see the Match Girl's face again.
This time, different from ever before, she has a deformed face.
One of her eyes is blind.
It is sunken and red.
The red eye is glowing, like the face the sad writer has seen in his delusion.
The Match Girl dries her tears, and continues to light the fire, with weaker strength.
Lights dim on the Match Girl.
Lights go up on the Princess who Fed on Gems.
The princess, who has been sitting there devastated, now gets up slowly.
She takes off the coat of the Sad Writer.
She hugs it, cries, and puts it on herself, which quietly smothers her glow.
She starts collecting the corpses of the writer’s crumpled writing, piece by piece.
She transforms the pieces of paper with magic.
The paper turns into some kind of lingering white substance like white yarns.
Solemnly, she collects all of them and makes them into spindles, taking as much time as she needs.
She collects all the spindles, a whole armload of them.
She walks out of the sad writer’s door, carefully carrying the spindles.
She continues her journey.
But she can no longer cope with the fierce wind.
The wind prevails.
She stoops and stoops, inside the writer’s coat.
She becomes very old when she walks.
Very, very old.
But she keeps walking.
Lights flicker in the storm.
End of Chapter I
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Chapter II: Eclosion
Lights.
The wounded creature, now totally defeated, summons up his final strength,
and tries to cut himself off one last time from the lava.
This is the first time he does this calmly.
He is finally free from the lava.
He has the skinny body of an adolescent, shockingly pale, and as weak as a foetus, or a baby marsupial.
He crawls a few steps,
and dies on the floor.
End of Chapter II
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Chapter III: Starting to Weave
The princess, now a stooping old woman,
walks and walks,
towards the highest corner of the space,
and becomes
the princess in the tower.
She takes out the yarn she made.
They are glowing,
the way she and her mother used to glow.
She takes the loom.
She takes a breath.
She starts weaving,
weaving,
weaving,
weaving,
weaving,
weaving.
An unending sheet of white substance,
glowing,
keeps being generated,
generated,
generated,
generated,
generated,
generated,
generated,
generated.
They all fly towards
the Match Girl.
Lights dim.
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Chapter IV: Burning Down the House
Lights.
The Match Girl receives the white substance woven by the Princess who fed on gems.
Seeing the glowing white substance, she knows her destiny has come.
As if what she has been waiting for all her life has now come to her.
She strikes all her remaining matches, all at once.
She succeeds in lighting up a fire.
Fire spreads.
Music (the same loop) is now so loud it drowns up all the senses.
The Match Girl goes into a state of ecstasy.
The entire theatre is eaten up by firelight and smoke.
She dances in the fire.
The whole house is burnt down.
End of Play.
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The work CLOWN PIECES is dedicated to Leslie Ayvazian, an incredible mentor of mine.