13 Colonies Script Packet (new).pdf
13 Colonies Script Packet (new).pdf 13 Colonies Script Packet (new).pdf
Tyranny's here With this taxation "When we don't have Representation. Pick up a bell It's time to ring it Pick up some tea It's time to fling it! ADAMSES and CHORUS: One lump or two? How do you take your tea? Just one way will do- At the bottom ofthe sea. One lump or two? How do you take your tea? Just one way will do- At the bottom of the sea. Doo bee doo... Just one way will do At the bottom ofthe sea. (ADAMSES and SALESMAN exit, leaving GEORGE WASHINGTON on stage) 21
(SIBYL LUDINGTON and LONGFELLOW enter on side and sit down. HE is working on a poem. MARTHA WASHINGTON enters, sees them, and speaks to GEORGE) MARTHA WASHINGTON: Look, George, it's Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Sibyl Ludington. Looks like Longfellow is working on a poem. GEORGE: This is a special moment, Martha. Longfellow's trying to write an epic poem about Sibyl. (HISTORY POLICE enter, blowing whistles) POLICE A: Okay, that's it. Cuffhim. GEORGE: What'd I do now? POLICE B: What did you do? Why you skipped the whole begilllling ofthe Revolutionary War! POLICE A: Here we are in the middle ofthe colonists' fight for freedom from British rule. You can)t just start in the middle. POLICE B: Where's your narrative sense? The beginning, then the middle, then the end! POLICE A: And now, in 1777, you've got a little known RevolutionaryWar heroine Sibyl Ludington talking to the great American poet Longfellow... POLICE B: ...and he wasn't even born until 30 years later! Book him, Danno. GEORGE (being led offby POLICE): But it's dramatic license! POLICE A: We're revoking that license, Mister. 22
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- Page 6 and 7: IROQUOIS and CHORUS: We've lived on
- Page 8 and 9: PONCE and SOLDIERS: I drink from ev
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- Page 14 and 15: GEORGE: I'm sorry, but... POLICE A:
- Page 16 and 17: (BRITISH SOLDIERS enter) SOLDIER #1
- Page 18 and 19: GEORGE WASHINGTON: Things are getti
- Page 22 and 23: MARTHA (following after them): But
- Page 24 and 25: COLONISTS: It's our revolutionary w
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Tyranny's here<br />
With this taxation<br />
"When we don't have<br />
Representation.<br />
Pick up a bell<br />
It's time to ring it<br />
Pick up some tea<br />
It's time to fling it!<br />
ADAMSES and CHORUS:<br />
One lump or two?<br />
How do you take your tea?<br />
Just one way will do-<br />
At the bottom ofthe sea.<br />
One lump or two?<br />
How do you take your tea?<br />
Just one way will do-<br />
At the bottom of the sea.<br />
Doo bee doo...<br />
Just one way will do<br />
At the bottom ofthe sea.<br />
(ADAMSES and SALESMAN exit, leaving GEORGE<br />
WASHINGTON on stage)<br />
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