MUSICAL HAMLET -------------------------- Dramatis Personae HAMLET, son to the late, nephew to the present owner - Ben Jorgensen GHOST OF HAMLETs FATHER - Sebastian Jorgensen GERTRUDE, owner Montsalvat, mother to Hamlet - Rhiannon Jorgensen OPHELIA, Aborigine daughter to Polonius - Marley Jorgensen LAERTES, Aborigine son to Polonius. POLONIUS, classical guitar - Sebastian Jorgensen BERNARDO, Montsalvatian - August Skipper MARCELLUS, Montsalvatian - Stark Jorgensen CLAUDIOUS, owner of Montsalvat - Sigmund Jorgensen LUCIANUS, nephew to the owner - Löuis Dönny Jörgensen FRANCISCO, a Montsalvatian. REYNALDO, Artist assistant to Polonius. MONTSALVATIANS, LADIES, ARTISANS, VENTURE CAPITALISTS, MESSENGERS, and other ATTENDANTS. PROLOGUE MELBOURNE AIRPORT - DAY HAMLET JORGENSEN departs airplane from Guttenberg, Germany. MELBOURNE TRAIN STATION - LATE AFTERNOON HAMLET departs for Eltham. MONTSALVAT FRONT GATE - DUSK The taxi stops in front of a group of young protestors blocking the entrance. TAXI DRIVER Hey! You are blocking the way! PROTESTOR Hate us cause we’re radical? Well, we don’t like you either. Any friend of Claudius Jorgensen is no friend of mine. If we don’t get no justice, you don’t get no peace. The PROTESTOR’s lined up like a fence open like a gate to let the cab go through. ACT I SCENE I MONTSALVAT - NIGHT A platform before the great dining hall. FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO. BERNARDO Whos there? FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. Bernardo? BERNARDO He. FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour. BERNARDO Tis now struck twelve. FRANCISCO Stand, ho! Whos there? Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS. HORATIO Friends. FRANCISCO Give you good night. MARCELLUS O, farewell. FRANCISCO Give you good night. Exit FRANSICO. MARCELLUS Holla! Bernardo! BERNARDO What, is Horatio there? HORATIO A piece of him. BERNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. MARCELLUS What, has this thing appeard again to-night? MARCELLUS Horatio says tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him. HORATIO Tush, tush, twill not appear. With his hand BERNARDO gently pinches HORATIO’s cheeks, opening his mouth. He puts a tab of acid on HORATIO’s tongue then hands MARCELLUS a tab of acid. BERNARDO Sit down awhile; And let us once again assail your ears, What we have two nights seen. HORATIO Well, sit we down, And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. BERNARDO Last night of all, When yond same star thats westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one,-- Enter Ghost MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again! BERNARDO In the same figure. MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. BERNARDO Mark it, Horatio. HORATIO Most like. BERNARDO It would be spoke to. MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio. HORATIO What art thou that usurpst this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee, speak! MARCELLUS It is offended. BERNARDO See, it stalks away! HORATIO Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee, speak! Exit GHOST MARCELLUS Tis gone, and will not answer. BERNARDO How now, Horatio! You tremble and look pale: Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you ont? HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. As thou art to thyself: Tis strange. In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state. MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows. HORATIO That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. BERNARDO I think it be no other but een so. HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the minds eye. But soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again! Re-enter GHOST. Ill cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, Speak to me: If there be any good thing to be done, That may to thee do ease and grace to me, Speak to me: Cock crows HORATIO Tis here! Tis gone! Exit GHOST. HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. So have I heard and do in part believe it. Exeunt
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