- Mrs. Egan - Jaqueline's Play
SFX: Happy Music
Sammy: Good Morning Students!
ALL: Good Morning!
Sammy: Today we are going to learn about democracy.
Students: Ugh, democracy is boring.
SFX: Philosophers appear.
PHIL All: Did someone say democracy is boring?
ALL: We did.
PHIL: GASP! GASP! How dare you!
ALL: Who are you?
Wynter: I’m Aristotle
Sophia: I’m Socrates.
Sierra: I’m Plato
PHIL: We invented democracy!
ALL: Oh
PHIL: And it is NOT boring!
ALL: Oh yeah, prove it!
Sophia: To the Pottery Time Portal.
The philosophers raise a piece of ancient pottery and use their beards to magically open it. Everyone goes through.
SFX: Time Travel
Citizens of Athens, the Assembly is called to order!
PHIL: Oh, we are just in time for the lottery!
ALL: Lottery?
Citizen 8752. Citizen 349. Citizen 65489.
Tianna: That’s me!
Mikayla: That’s me!
Elise: That’s me!
Tianna and Mikayla and Elise: I won! I won!
SFX: ALL I DO IS WIN.
Congratulations – you have won a spot on the Boule, a group of 500 citizens who will serve on the council for the next year.
ALL: That’s random.
Sammy: Hey Nikos. Why weren’t you at the Assembly, huh?
Reese: Um, I was doing my laundry. I fell down the stairs. My pet rock died.
Sammy: SHAME!!!!
For your failure to attend the Assembly today you are sentenced to a public shamming!
Reese: Alexandros didn’t go either!
Shame upon you both!
ALL: SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Your clothes shall be dyed red and you shall be publicly humiliated.
ALL: Gasp.
Reese and Joss lip sync Adele’s Hello.
SFX: Hello
PHIL: See, isn’t democracy exciting???
ALL: I guess ….
PHIL: There’s more! Let us show you!
SFX:
Here in Athens, it’s time to impress, and say yes to the dress, because it’s wedding season!
ALL: A wedding? How romantic.
All eligible girls on stage please. All eligible girls on stage. The wedding is about to begin.
Shyloh: I pick you, I guess.
Rory: Yes, I guess.
I now pronounce you husband and property!
SFX: Wedding march.
Ella: Wait, wasn’t that girl like only 15 years old?
PHIL: Yes.
ALL: THAT’S SO YOUNG!
Hannah: And wasn’t that man like 32 years old?
PHIL: Yes.
ALL: THAT’S SO OLD!
PHIL: Well women can’t vote or have a job. Getting married is their only option.
Ella: That’s gross.
Hannah: And not very romantic.
PHIL: Well how would you do it?
ALL: Like this!
Kingston: Will you marry me?
Sir: Yes!
SFX: At Last
Sammy: So, if women can’t vote, your democracy isn’t very equal or fair.
Sierra: It’s not perfect.
Sophia: It’s our first try!
Wynter: We’re working on it!
PHIL: There’s more! Let us show you!
SFX: Military.
Here in Sparta, it’s time to feel the learn, as all boys over the age of seven must study duty, discipline and endurance. It’s time to train some warriors.
ALL: Warriors! Cool.
Jake: Attention!
It's time to learn to be tough!
Awais: Drop and give me 20
To endure pain and hunger!
Izabella: No food for you!
And to fight the Nine Headed Hydra Monster with your bare hands.
ALL: What? AHHHHHHHH!
PHIL: Quick hide!
SFX: Monster
Hydra monster enters. Everyone hides. Hydra exits.
SFX: Music - Friday the 13th.
Hana: I don’t want to fight a nine-headed hydra monster with my bare hands!
Brooke: Me either!
Dylan: I want my mom!
All 3: Ah! (runs out of the gym screaming)
Any other cowardly Spartan Warriors want to run away?
They all put their hands up
Come on you lily livered fools. Show some loyalty to your city-state. You are professionals! Get it together.
Charlotte: You know what? I’m not scared of some silly nine-headed hydra.
I’m gonna give it a piece of my mind!
ALL: Yeah!
SFX: Music - Growl, Scream, Burp
Students runs backstage in slow motion. We hear a roar, a scream and a burp. A shoe is tossed onto the stage
Well, that didn’t go so well! Retreat soldiers! Retreat!
Stella and Chandi: But it ate our friend. I’m gonna give it a piece of MY mind!
Students run backstage in slow motion. We hear a roar, a scream and a burp. A shoe is tossed onto the stage
SFX: Music - Growl, Scream, Burp
Run-away Spartans! Run away! This is an order!
ALL: I’m gonna give it a piece of MY mind!
No! I really don’t recommend that!
Students runs back stage in slow motion. We hear a roar, a scream and a burp. A shoe is tossed onto the stage
SFX: Music - Growl, Scream, Burp
PHIL: Oh dear. We might have gone too far with this whole experiential learning thing…
SFX: Music - BURP x3
All the students run onto the stage falling in FYOS
PHIL: Well praise Zeus!
A: We’re alive!
Trevor: Wow, that was kind of intense!
PHIL: Sorry about that. Here let us take you to the Olympics.
ALL: Oh, that sounds fun!
PHIL: Yes, the Olympic athletes compete in the nude.
SFX: Record Scratch –
ALL: Naked? We don’t want to see that!
Maya: I never realized how much modern democracy affects my life.
Hannah: Because of it I can chose who I marry.
Shyloh: And what job I have. I’m gonna be a Mechanic
Siri: And I get to have a public education, instead of being forced to fight a nine-headed hydra.
ALL: So … Democracy is pretty awesome!
PHIL: That’s all we wanted to hear!
SFX: Time Travel.
Sammy: Alright, everyone get out your books. It’s time for math.
Students: Ugh, math is boring.
SFX: Philosophers appear.
PHIL: GASP! GASP! How dare you!
ALL: Not again!
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