Reverie
Drama 100 Lab 10
Updated Script
Humans feel they need a reason for the unknown and continue
to search for reasons, which brings comfort but ends up
being futile.
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Cast List
Scene 1 & 6
Full Cast
Scene 2
Main Character ----------------------------- Danica Gornicz
Lucky Woman --------------------------------- Rebecca Kurtz
Woman 2 ----------------------- Michaela Rutherford- Blouin
Woman 3 ---------------------------------- Sylvie Glisinski
Woman 4 ---------------------------------- Amanda McGrenere
Woman 5 -------------------------------------- Tanya Bedard
Scene 3
Main Character ----------------------------- Danica Gornicz
Priest ------------------------------------- Rhael Mcgregor
Scene 4
Scientist One ---------------------------------- Alex Green
Scientist Two ----------------------------- Grant Robertson
Main Character ----------------------------- Danica Gornicz
Scene 5
Main Character ----------------------------- Danica Gornicz
Mathematician ---------------------------- Georgina Preston
1st Anon. ----------------------------------- Sylvia Fanous
2nd Anon. ----------------------------------- Rebecca Kurtz
3rd Anon. ------------------------------------ Tanya Bedard
4th Anon. -------------------------------------- Alex Green
5th Anon. ---------------------------------- Rhael Mcgregor
6th Anon. -------------------------------- Sylvie Glisinski
7th Anon. -------------------------------- Amanda McGrenere
8th Anon. ----------------------------------- Tyler Balaban
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Scene Order & Breakdown
Scene 1:
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Funeral
Full cast needed
Main underneath of a sheet- symbolic of a dead person
Scene 2:
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Luck
Main dies from the flu (she is unlucky)
Characters do not interact with her until the end
(except Lucky Woman), and tell her they hope she will
fell better soon
Main dies in front of coffin
Scene 3:
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Religion
Main dies after looking at the idol
She passes out SR
Scene 4:
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Science
Main dies when the two scientists check her pulse and
move her over to the coffin
Keep the mirror image of the two scientists throughout
the blocking
Scene 5:
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Math/ Logic
Main dies by suffocation from different thoughts
inside of her head (represented by Anonymous
Characters)
Characters that are onstage (all Anon.’s) will circle
around her with the red string, and leave her on the
coffin
The spiral onstage made of bodies- Fibonacci Spiral
Scene 6:
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Funeral- mirrored to the first scene
Main comes to the realization that she is the dead
person and this is her funeral
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Act 1, Scene 1
Open at a funeral. Body (Main) lies underneath of
a sheet CS. Priest enters singing religious hymn.
People begin to enter one by one, placing flowers
on the ground in front of the coffin, and go to
individual positions. Individual’s tableau in
specific mournful positions. Priest folds back
sheet covering the body to expose the face and
neck, and walks off SL. Main sits up, confused;
all other characters are still frozen. She gets up
frantically and begins to wave her hands in front
of tableau faces.
LFX: Lighting up about 75% on coffin, but still lighting up
faces of mourners.
SFX: None until transition, transition- fade in “Arrival of
the Birds- Cinematic Orchestra” fade out.
MAIN CHARACTER: I… I don’t, understand. Where am I? I can't
die before the end. It would be so embarrassing. It can’t
be, there’s no reason for it. There has to be a reason.
(Pause) I look for patterns. Clues to keep me going. This
goes against everything I’ve ever believed in. What do I
believe in? There has to be a reason.
Main runs back to the bench, crying a little and
sits in front of the coffin, back to the audience.
The mourners come out of tableau, completely
unaware of Main and do not acknowledge her in any
way. As the mourners walk offstage they repeat the
words “there has to be a reason,” overlapping and
walking horizontally across stage to transition
into next scene.
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Act 1, Scene 2
Lucky Woman partakes in the transition, but
catches herself before exiting SR. She flings off
her cardigan and walks back over to the bench
where Main Character is.
LFX: Lights up brighter to highlight most of the stage now.
As characters enter from sides, lights up on either DSL or
DSR.
SFX: None until transition, transition- fade in “Arrival of
the Birds- Cinematic Orchestra” fade out.
LUCKY WOMAN: I was born lucky.
wants.
I have something everybody
MAIN CHARACTER: I think I was born unlucky… You know, even
in the Bible, at the end, there's the part about when the
world ends? You’re completely screwed and there’s nothing
you can do about it. (Coughs) just dust in my throat. You
were born lucky? Help me if you can (gestures to what was
previously coffin) I don’t think I was ever really happy, I
wonder if I knew that.
LUCKY WOMAN: They want my luck. They believe it’s
contagious. Or somehow transmissible.
WOMAN 2: The flu. No spitting. No kissing. No public
gatherings. If you have it they put a notice on your door.
You're quarantined.
WOMAN 3: Overheard some people talking about the soldier.
They thought it was a bad idea that a man that had been
around the flu out east was now in town, and that it was
lucky for us he couldn't move around too much. He’s not
doing very well.
WOMAN 2: Don’t be so quick to judge. One day you might find
yourself in a position where you need a little luck.
LUCKY WOMAN: They think they’re so lucky. The fact he was
badly wounded indeed made them lucky but for a very
different reason. But it would be no use with these types
WOMAN 4: I don’t believe in luck.
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WOMAN 5: Then explain this… My sister has recovered quickly
from the flu. She's always been a little faster at most
things than the normal person.
WOMAN 4: Are you saying luck is genetic? So where did your
“luck” come from.
WOMAN 5: (After a pause) I kissed a boy a few days back. I
still feel him on my lips. He was very, very… lucky.
LUCKY WOMAN: (to Main Character) That’s ridiculous. The
truth is, you can’t change your luck. And it will end,
sooner or later. So quit while you’re ahead.
WOMAN 2: It’s about the winning. Everybody wants to be
lucky. Or luckier. Three more dead in Rosetown.
WOMAN 3: Being lucky is not all it’s cracked up to
be. Doesn't necessarily mean you’re better off. Or
happier.
WOMAN 2: Well, people are dying; luck is like your penis,
you can always use a little more.
LUCKY WOMAN: (to Main Character) Just because there’s a
chance of something happening, that doesn’t mean it’s going
to happen. You still need a little luck.
WOMAN 4: Am I unlucky? I had the flu already this spring.
But I kind of liked it. Lying around a lot.
Abruptly, everyone on stage turns to stare at
Woman 4.
WOMAN 2: Idiot.
WOMAN 4: You like to bet, don’t you?
WOMAN 5: That’s what we do, we lucky people. After all, he
who lives by the coin flip should die by the coin flip,
don’t you think.
MAIN CHARACTER: Let’s say you are lucky. Why? Why are you
so lucky? That’s what I want to know.
Women 2, 3, 4, 5 walk towards Main Character on
bench. Touch her forehead and shoulder, in a
friendly manner.
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WOMAN 3: (to each other) She has a fever, poor dear.
WOMAN 2: We hope you feel better.
MAIN CHARACTER: What? I’m not sick?
Main Character starts coughing uncontrollably.
Lucky Woman walks behind bench.
LUCKY WOMAN: Luck is relative. It will end. Sooner or
later. It has to.
Main Character starts coughing and cannot
stop. She dies on ground in front of bench.
Everyone walks across the stage in the background
repeating “it has to” over and over again. Idol
enters and steps on top of block. Priest enters
and takes Lucky Woman’s place behind the coffin,
tying a belt around the idol.
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Act 1, Scene 3
Main Character awakens in scene with Idol covered
with the sheet UCS, coffin is still CS.
LFX: Lights the same as scene 4.
SFX: None until transition, transition- fade in “Arrival of
the Birds- Cinematic Orchestra” fade out.
MAIN CHARACTER: Is this you, God?
PRIEST: Yes.
MAIN CHARACTER: … Does God get angry?
PRIEST: God does not get angry my child.
MAIN: I’ll ask him, next time I talk to him.
PRIEST: If it’s God’s will. I think it’s God’s will we are
here right now, face to face. (Pause) Like the lamb, you
were the first, it’s all a part of God’s plan.
Priest walks over to the bench and holds arms up
in a similar way to the idol.
PRIEST: And behold! A pale horse and he who sat upon him,
his name was death. Can you guess what followed?
Main silently answers no.
PRIEST: We are here because God created us and power was
given to him with sword, famine, and with death!
MAIN CHARACTER: That is such a tragedy…
PRIEST: If it’s God’s will.
MAIN CHARACTER: But what if God doesn’t exist?
Priest moves toward Main Character to console her.
PRIEST: This is why He brought you here. This is why He
kept you here. This (motion to coffin/ bench)… this is
God’s will.
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Priest moves to the edge of the stage and Main
Character moves to look at the idol and during
the final sentence slowly falls to her death.
PRIEST: What is meant to be will be. You cannot fight it.
Transition happens and all characters walk across
stage repeating the words “you cannot fight it.”
While transition is going on Priest walks off and
new scientist walks on (Scientist One) and removes
the belt from the idol UCS.
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Act 1, Scene 4
Scientist One enters during transition and tries
to reason about how science influenced the
events. Meanwhile, the idol is still there, but
will soon be revealed as another scientist
(Scientist Two).
LFX: Same as scene 3.
SFX: None until transition, transition- fade in “Arrival of
the Birds- Cinematic Orchestra” fade out.
SCIENTIST ONE: I’m the observer. I see things happen. Like
triangles or circles, there’s a pattern. I look for
patterns. Clues to keep me going.
SCIENTIST TWO: Science is not a belief, it’s an absolute.
It’s not a creation. It’s a discovery.
SCIENTIST ONE: Most human bodies are the same. (Uses the
belt to measure) Draw two parallel lines down from the
pupil of the eyes and you find the corners of the mouth.
Tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger is the
length of the nose. Length of the nose is one-third the
length of the face.
SCIENTIST TWO: Differences are only on the surface. Look
closely and you will see the same. The model is consistent.
SCIENTIST ONE: Our genes are the very building blocks of
life. The order of the four base pairs in your DNA has
programmed everything about you. That sequence created you.
SCIENTIST TWO: There is nothing in the universe that cannot
be explained by science.
MAIN CHARACTER: If you’re a scientist, then prove that God
doesn’t exist.
SCIENTIST ONE: That’s impossible.
MAIN CHARACTER: I’m not questioning gravity or disputing
that the earth is round, but science is not the whole
story. It gives us the what, not the why. Why is there
gravity? Why is the earth round? It seems to me like
science needs God as much as God needs science.
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SCIENTIST ONE: Science needs God like an amoeba needs a
Golgi apparatus.
SCIENTIST TWO: God is unnecessary. God is redundant! We are
the product of genes and evolution and probability. We do
not need God to be our fudge factor. Science is the answer.
SCIENTIST ONE: (Motions to the coffin CS) That person died
of the flu.
SCIENTIST TWO: People are dying front and rear.
SCIENTIST ONE: The body carries germs. Burning it may be
wise, in a way. I’m not saying it’s all right, really, but–
MAIN CHARACTER: You don’t treat a human body like some pile
of rubbish!
Both Scientist One & Scientist Two walk towards
Main Character behind the coffin CS.
SCIENTIST TWO: I have something that might help. It’s a
sort of salve for the skin.
Scientist One grabs Main Character’s right wrist
and checks her pulse. Looks at Scientist Two and
shakes his head.
SCIENTIST ONE: Call it.
SCIENTIST TWO: Time of death…?
SCIENTIST ONE: (Interrupts) Irrelevant.
Main faints back into Scientist Two’s arms and
dies. Scientist One walks off SR and Scientist Two
places Main Character’s body on the coffin.
Transition starts with Anonymous characters
walking on in a line from SR holding a red string
(all Anonymous people in black). Everyone is
chanting a variety of numbers, in any order: one,
two, three, five, eight.”
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Act 1, Scene 5
During transition, the Anonymous characters walk
across stage to create a Fibonacci Spiral with
the red string behind the coffin CS. The
Anonymous characters freeze. Mathematician enters
SR and walks toward box DSL.
LFX: Lighting the same as scene 4, light up DSR when
Mathematician enters.
SFX: Heartbeat sound fade in when Anonymous characters
surround Main Character, and abruptly stops when she
screams stop.
MATHEMATICAN: One, one, two, three, five, eight. It’s the
first six numbers of the Fibonacci sequence. The most
fundamental and universal mathematical sequence ever
identified. The Fibonacci sequence is seen in everything.
In science. In nature. It is integral to the structure of
the universe and everything in it.
ALL ANONYMOUS CHARACTERS: All you need is a little math.
MATHEMATICAN: You’re (to Main Character) a strange woman,
mathematically speaking.
MAIN CHARACTER: Why is this happening?
MATHEMATICAN: Sorry to disappoint you, but math is
absolute. You can’t mess with it. Sooner or later,
probability will prevail.
ALL ANONYMOUS CHARACTERS: Trust the numbers.
MATHEMATICAN: Fibonacci brought you here. To me.
ALL ANONYMOUS CHARACTERS: Look closely and you will see the
same.
MAIN CHARACTER: (to Mathematician) I knew there was a
reason. There always is. I don’t believe in luck, good or
bad. I think it’s a bunch of bullshit hogwash… But I
believe in Fibonacci.
ALL ANONYMOUS CHARACTERS: All you need is a little math.
1st ANONYMOUS: See this? It’s coming for sure.
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2nd ANONYMOUS: 6,000 minus 4,082 equals 1,918. 1918
Main Character starts to feel uneasy onstage.
3rd ANONYMOUS: Born 1856, came to power in 1912, reigned 6
years, his age 62. Add those numbers up and it’s 3836.
4th ANONYMOUS: But it makes sense. The war. The weather.
5th ANONYMOUS: President Poincarré of France. Born 1860,
came to power 1913, reigned 5 years, aged 58. Add it
up...3836. Divide by two = 1918.
Main Character starts to hold her head and act as
though she has a headache. Starts to breathe
heavily.
6th ANONYMOUS: How do I know? It’s common sense.
7th ANONYMOUS: It works for the King of England, Italy, the
Czar, even the Mikado.
8th ANONYMOUS: Like triangles or circles, there’s a pattern.
I look for patterns.
All Anonymous characters begin to unravel their
spiral and circle around Main Character. Each
Anonymous character chants their line stated
before, increasing with aggression and getting
louder each time. Main Character gets overwhelmed
and screams out, faints onto the coffin CS.
Anonymous characters freeze, look at Main
Character and walk off silently.
MATHEMATICAN: (to audience) Trust the numbers.
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Act 1, Scene 6
Main wakes up and walks toward DCS to face
audience. She repeats the monologue from scene 1.
MAIN CHARACTER: I… I don’t, understand. Where am I? I can't
die before the end. It would be so embarrassing. It can’t
be, there’s no reason for it.
Characters from scene 1 (funeral) begin to walk on
randomly and get into tableau from the first scene
around the coffin CS.
MAIN CHARACTER:
patterns. Clues
everything I’ve
There has to be
There has to be a reason. I look for
to keep me going. This goes against
ever believed in. What do I believe in?
a reason.
Main Character looks around at all the funeral goers. She walks over to the coffin and lays down,
pulling the sheet over herself.
PRIEST: Thank you all for coming today. We must remember
the joy she brought us, and celebrate her life. We will
never know why this had to happen, and maybe it doesn’t
matter. Rest in Peace.
LFX: All general lighting fades out into a blue spotlight
on the coffin.
Fin.
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