Romeo
and Juliet
ACT III, SCENE
V
Ladies and gentlemen,
you are going to see the fifth scene of Romeo and Juliet. They have just spent
their first night together after the marriage, but the day after Romeo must go
to Mantua and they greet each other. We miss an appropriate place, visual and
sound effects, so you have to use your fantasy to imagine the real scene.
Excuse us for our bad performance, and delight it.
[Enter Romeo and
Juliet]
Juliet: Would you
like to go yet? That sound you heard was the nightingale, not the lark. Every
night it sings on the tree: believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Romeo: It was the
lark, the bird that sings at dawn, not the nightingale: look, love, night is
over and day is coming. I must go and live or stay and die.
Juliet: That light is
not day-light, I know it: it’s just a meteor coming out of the sun to light
your way to Mantua. So stay for a while, you don’t have to go yet.
Romeo: Let me be
captured and put to death. I will stay and die, if you want it. It isn’t
day-light!
Juliet: It is
morning! Some say the lark makes a sweet division between day and night but it
is not true because it separates us. Go away! Quickly!
[Enter Nurse]
Nurse: Juliet!
Juliet: Nurse?
Nurse: Your mother is
coming to your bedroom. Be careful!
[Exit]
Juliet: You have to
go away!
Romeo: Farewell!
Farewell! Give me one kiss and I’ll go down.
Juliet: I must hear
from you every day in a hour. In a minute there are many days. Oh, by this
count I’ll be many years older before I
see my Romeo again!
Romeo: Farewell! I
won’t miss any chance to send you my greetings.
Juliet: O God, I’m
having a bad prediction. Now that you are down there, you look like someone
dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight is falling me, or you look
pale.
Romeo: And trust me love,
you look pale to me too. Sadness takes away our colour. Goodbye! Goodbye!
Rachele Cipponeri
Valeria Biondolillo
Simona La Piana
Chiara Genualdi
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