Giant Puppet Procession & music
see backpack puppets
Narrator:
Welcome to our world.... (introduces puppeteers,
landscapes... etc.)
SPRING
Forest: see Dorchester African King
Forest Landscape: see Wiggletree, banners
Forest:
Back behind your lives
Forest lushly lies
Your every human need
Forest satisfies
Lady With the Hat:
And now it's Spring! In the Spring,
as the name implies, events appear suddenly, leap up at
us, as it were, as in the case of this story of the forest.
Forest:
Once upon a time, I caused a tree to be
planted. I had it planted, I had it watered, and it grew
into the tree of life.
Tree of Life musical mime
Old Tree Lady with gardening equipment
Sun shines, Old Tree Lady waters tree
Tree Banner unrolls
All the creatures come out from behind it.
Critters dance, and exit
SUMMER
Air:
Thin air
Barely there
Invisible
And everywhere
for air, see Bread and Puppet flying bird
Air landscape of cardboard clouds and birds
Lady With the Hat:
Summer: In the Summer, a sudden rush of warmth
to the head causes our thoughts to lightly fly into the
air.
Summer:
In the Summer, my favorite, Amelia Earhart, was born.
Earhart parents are medium-sized
birds, Amelia is a baby dog,
medium-sized dog, flat dog in an airplane
and hand-puppet on a string to fly away.
Narrator:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Amelia was born to Mr. Bird and
Mrs Bird, and she was born from this very egg- Quick!
Hot water!....... And the egg grew into this baby.
Bird parents go behind Tree of Life
banner and emerge with baby
go behind again and appear with
full-grown Amelia
And it grew and grew into a lovely...... person, and here
she is! Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Bird!
Amelia! Lovely! Charming! A fine dancer! But!
Poor Amelia! Amelia Earhart could not fly. She tried,
and she tried, and she tried, until she was in despair.
Then, on December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers
invented
airplane in, plays with Amelia
the airplane! She wanted it, she wanted it, she had to
have it!
and she was united with her plane
flat Amelia on plane
and together they visited Asia, Africa, Europe and all
the islands. And she flew up above all the birds.
and Amelia Earhart learned how to fly
handpuppet flies out on string
And may we all learn how to fly as well as her.
Narrator:
Amelia Earhart, the greatly renowned
She set out to sail the world around
Air itself loved her. Air will ever surround
Her. She entered the air and was never found.
FALL
for City, see Mr. Punch,
for city landscape, see Urbanity parade
cars, trucks, cross, collide
City:
Autumn in the City!
Pleasures everywhere
As passers-by
Watch pigeons fly
Through limpid city air
Happiness is easy
When you find your way
To urban parts
Where soaring hearts
Soon find themselves at play
Lady With the Hat:
Fall: In the Fall, we feel the urge to huddle together
for warmth; the season's changing - let's head for the city!
City:
It's everybody's favorites: Romeo and Julet!
Romeo and Juliet are a dog and cat
for Romeo and Juliet see Hat Cat
Romeo and Juliet enter,
They do a double-take
Romeo:
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Juliet:
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
They circle, spar, drop and retrieve hankie
give and accept flower,
fall in love, and dance
Narrator:
And so they lived happily ever after!
WINTER
Ocean:
Ocean am I
The ever-changing
All round the world
Freely ranging
Lady With the Hat:
The approach of Winter brings privation,
sorrow, even to the deathless sea.
Ocean:
My codfish, my cod, my dying cod!
for cod, see two-person fish
Cod:
Ballade de Cod
The sea, my deep blue forest full of friends
Who would have thought it could be scraped so clean
As clean as poolside tiles of neon green
Bare as Sahara sands where the world ends.
From the depths I cry to you, Oh God
With your great tail smite down my enemy
Lord, in your loving fins fold me
Come to the aid of me, your helpless cod
enter Ahab
Ahab:
Men, men, men!!!
goons in
Ahab and goons:
What do you do when you see a codfish, men?
Sing out for him!
And what do you do next, men?
Lower away, and after him!
And what tune is it ye pull to, men?
A dead codfish or a stove boat!
Goons chase cod
Ahab:
Aye, aye! And I'll chase him round Good Hope, and
round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and
round perdition's flames before I give him up!
codfish, Ahab, and Goons out
Lady With the Hat:
And now Winter is here, and Winter rules the World!
Big Bad Boss sets up
for BB Boss see backpacks
Boss landscape of banners
Boss:
Business as usual!
Four Horsemen in
Narrator:
Come and see.
And I saw, and beheld, a white horse; and he that sat
on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Come and see.
And there went forth another horse that was red; and
power was given that sat thereon to take peace from the
earth, and that they should kill one another.
Come and see.
And I beheld, and lo, a black horse; and he that sat
upon had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a
voice say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three
measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the
oil and the wine.
Come and see.
And I looked, and beheld, a pale horse; and his name
that sat on him was Death.
Song
Lady With the Hat:
I object! Ladies and Gentlemen, there is no reason
why we should put up with all this Death and destruction,
greed and evil, for another minute. I Protest!
We want Spring!
We want Spring!
Get audience chanting
Vejigante chases Horsemen and Boss out
Flora and flower banners in