Poem in free verses

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 Remember

Remember

you're just passing through

on earth

and that the world is not yours

but it's your body

that belongs to  earth;

Remember

that love is built

very slowly

while passion

burns everything in a hurry;

Remember

that every man

has its own dignity

and he deserves all respects.

Remember

who has sown

when you collect the fruits.

Remember

to greet the sun

whenever it rises

and whenever it sets.

Remember

that you are light

lighting 

the darkness of eternity.

Out the Sardos (Aforas sos Sardos)

 

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Out the Sardos

(Aforas sos Sardos)

Musical based on the script in Sardinian  language written

by Ignazio Salvatore Basile

 

The dialogues and texts of the characters are part of the libretto and therefore belong to the author Ignazio Salvatore Basile. Music, scenes, costumes and choreography, unless otherwise specified, belong to the traditional cultural heritage of Sardinia and Spain.

The characters and the events presented on scene, although linked to some historical facts, belong to the author's fantasy.

 

 

Characters and Interpreters

 

Rosina Murenu - Sewer in the Viceroy Palace –Felipe’s  girlfriend

Felipe Sangermano y Mendoza- Son of the Viceroy –Rosina’s boyfriend

Put it Sangermano Duke of Mendoza - Viceroy of Sardinia

Donna Francisca Lacon de Siete Fuentes – Wife of viceroy and mother of Felipe (does not appear)

Don Giacomo Alivesi - noble Sardinian spy of  the viceroy

Lazzarino Murenu - Fisherman, father of Rosina

Boricu Lallai - Blacksmith –also  in love with  Rosina

Cosimo Delogu - Watchmaker and Goldmaker

Severinu Loy - Barman

Lieutenant Degortes - Chief of the Guards

Spanish castle guards - also Colombian dancers

Customers of the Public House "Sa Marina"

Troublemakers of different Sardinian guilds

Noble lost Sardines (do not appear)

 

At the beginning the curtain will open on a stage set by Castello as the central backdrop for the stage. The soldiers will be in old Spanish dress. The Ballet will perform a traditional Spanish dance "Sevillana" in whose notes the male choir will sing the following Aria

FIRST SCENE

Male Choir and Ballet of the Spanish Guard

ARIA "OUTSIDE THE SARDOS"

 

Outside the Sardos present, fast away!

Outside the Sardos present, all  Sardos present

Must  go away!

Get out! You Sardos go away!

 

Outside inkwells and outside blacksmiths,

 outside barbers and copy papers!

 

Out the Sardos present, out of here!

Out all  the Sardos present, out all the Sardos present,

Out all  the Sardos present here!

Out of here! Out of here!!

 

Outside inkwells and outside barbers,

outside blacksmiths with fans!

 

SECOND SCENE

(Rosina and Felipe)

 

With a play of lights, the attention of the Second Scene is concentrated in an intimate corner of the Viceregio Palace.

 

Rosina (deferringly the lover's hug)

 

- Have you heard that? They are  locking the doors  up! I have to go!

 

Felipe (with passion)

 

- Wait a little while! Give me another little kiss. Until tomorrow we can't even talk to each other ... (they will kiss each other hotly again while they hear in the distance the screech of the doors that rise for the closing of the afternoon)

 

Rosina (c.s.)

 

- I beg you, let me go, my father puts himself in thought!

 

Felipe (reluctantly)

 

- ‘ See you tomorrow then!

 

Rosina

For sure!

 

Felipe (always hugging her)

 

- I don't see the time, my beautiful girlfriend!

 

Rosina (c.s.)

 

- Bye, my love !! (Comes out)

SCENA TERZA

 

ARIA di FELIPE

Tenor

 

I ask myself

until when

Iron chains

will be closed

To separate hearts?

 

Until when

Portals and wrinkles

will be closed

To separate loves?

 

Fast, you, warm sun

get up earlier

and come back to take

To my cold heart

the light of the eyes

They deliver peace!

 

Moon then

Sleep fast

Because if you are awake

My life is uncertain!

 

FOURTH SCENE

(Outside the walls of the Castle- Lazzarin and Boricu)

 

Lazzarin (looking towards the door)

 

-Where might Rosina be? Soon the doors will be locked ...

 

Boricu

 

- But when this story is finished I don't want her among  foreign people!

 

Lazzarin

 

- We will talk of that when the time is come!

 

(Rosina appears going quickly)

FIFTH SCENE

(Abovesaid and Rosina)

 

Lazzarin

 

- Hurry up, Rosina! Why did you delay like this?

 

Rosina

 

- Excuse me, father! Lady Francisca would like to measure a dress!

 

Boricu (with a threatening movement directed towards the walls)

 

- They throw us out, as if we were dogs ...

 

Rosina

- Cheers, Boricu!

 

Boricu (lighting up)

 

- Cheers to you, Rosina! We were worried about you with your father !

 

Rosina

- But you shouldn't worry! In the viceroy's house I am safe  as if I were in my own house!

 

Boricu (c.s.)

 

- How can you be safe in the house of someone who treats us like this?

 

Lazzarin

 

- Get away from here! The doors are getting  up! (the squeak of the chains will be heard while moving with effort)

 

The scenery could illuminate the panel again the central of the second scene until the fourth when Boricu will sing its air.

 

ARIA di Boricu

Tenor

 

I’m longing for the  time

They won't throw us  outside anymore ’

From the Grandparents’ Home!

 

The time will come

That old people from Caller

should not live anymore

The insult of the alien owners

Who when it gets dark

Until the sun  rises again,

Because of the enclosure,

They don't let us stay

In the Castle above:

Friends in sunlight

Enemies with the moon!

 

 

Six SCENE

(Tavern “A Sa Marina” - Don Alivesi- Cosimo Delogu- Lazzarin Murenu- Boricu Lallai and other conspirators sitting at different tables. On a table are the four already named before, gathered by Don Giacomo Alivesi, to plan the insurrection against the Spaniards; you have to prepare a set of an inn from the late 16th century with tables, chairs and wooden ornaments.)

 

Don Alivesi (handing over a bag of money to all three)

 

- Here are three hundreds  guineas. When you finish the job there will be another two hundred to each of you! Has everyone well understood?

 

Cosimo (greedily grabbing the bag)

 

- Of course! First of all we pick up the son of Viceroy Felipe and then, in a few months time all the Caller guilds will be scrambled to throw all the foresters and Spaniards who live in Caller into the sea!

Don Alivesi

- This is how a really  Sard talks ! (Rising  he will begin with a bass voice on Air)

ARIA "O SARDOS"

Low

 

O Sardos, who live in poverty

And in anguish!

Ready is the time for us

To raise our head

And to be  commanding

in our own Home

 children of Eleonora and Mariano

children of Sardinia!

 

(After singing the air, D. Alivesi leaves)

 

SEVENTH SCENE

(In the center you have to have enough space for the Dance of the seventh scene that will close the First Part. The Dance will be a traditional dance of Sardinia, with traditional costumes for example Ballu Tundu (a Circle Dance): better if in the taverna are ladies too, always with the typical Sardinian dress, to be able to participate in pairs to the dance and the party. In the Dance the dancers, one at a time, will separate from the group to go to the center of the scene, to recite as First Voice or Second Voice , while the rest of the Group dance in a circle and sing the Echinechinachinò Air in chorus, tongue twister that means: Whoiswhosaysno?)

 

Cosimo Delogu

 

- Everybody dance! Make the party with wine and dances! Alè !

 

ARIA ECHINECHINACHINO ’?

Charles Borbon Second King

Let's dance round dance!

 

Chorus: Echinèchinàchinò?

 

First Voce: The Viceroy

Duke of Mendoza

that life enjoys it!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

Second Voice: and his girlfriend is Francisca

She is pretty like sparkling  water!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

First Voice. The majors of Spain

Venomous as a spider!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

Second Voice: priests, nuns and bishops

The church is with the rectors!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

First  Voice: Guilds and  people from the sea

Live quiet without any medicine!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

End of First  Part

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Four men in search of the truth

 

There were four men

searching for truth

They all knew

that sixteen hundred years before

Someone was asked

by a washing hands' man

to say what was the truth

One of them

is on the tower of Pisa

which is still bending

since then

'cause he refused

to declare the earth is flat

to the clergy men

to the rappers of truth

Several miles away

another one is convicted

by other false truth holders

he has lost his wife

he's lost his goods

he's lost his freedom

and he's Lost Paradise

 

And Torquato

has been serving

for seven years through

in a madhouse

for his poetry was  full of truth

The fourth man lies

straight and tall

in the middle of a square

where his unfortunate harsh

took the place of the flowers

He seems to warn the passing-bys:

"Please, mind the truth!"

 

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The new day

(on death of my brother Mauritius)

 

Now the veils of Maya have fallen

And no longer covers your body

The armor of the Syrian Naaman;

I see on your face

Shining again the ancient light

Of our childhood games

When hopes

were all to come

And the misleading curtain

Which hardens the hearts

Had not yet come between us.

Run now

On your nimble legs

Wait for me in the sunny lands

Where the sun never sets down.

 

The Bell of Time

 

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The Bell of Time

Drama in Sardinian language in three acts

Translated into English by Ignazio Salvatore Basile

 

 

Characters and Interpreters

Two women

Two lovers

Two shepherds

The rioters

The soldiers

Spike Corner (famous speaker)

Other speakers

Mother and son

Four girls

Various poor people (men, women and children)

Other People

PLOT

 

In a town in central Sardinia a mysterious bell dominates the population by terror. But a group of young people decide to rebel against this dictatorship. Thus the bell is destroyed and broken into a thousand pieces. However, the young rioters set up a police regime that turns out to be worse than the previous one. In the third act, instead of the bell, an amusement park is visible that attracts especially young people. But it is not said that this is the best world that the elderly dreamed of,  at the time of the terrible bell.

Act One

First scene

In the background of the scene there is a huge iron gray bell surrounded by barbed wire. Numerous signs, although not readable by all the public, indicate the ban on entry beyond barbed wire. A path runs along the barbed wire. Two lovers are embraced at the bottom of the path. On both sides of the scene there are two doors: the one to the right gives access to the scene; the other serves the exit from the scene, on the left; on the left a small table with four chairs. Two women are walking in the path, in the opposite direction of  the young lovers, when the scene begins.

 

First woman (making the sign of the Cross)

- Let us make the Cross, for  we are passing in a holy place or in a place of demons!

Second woman (she also makes the Cross and looks towards the bell, gesturing to stop)

- What is it, mistress?

First woman (pulling her forward,  without deliberately looking towards the bell, but seeing the two lovers behind them)

-Don't stop, please. Come with me!

Exeunt

 

Second scene

(The two lovers. She brings him towards the center of the scene, trying to get as far away from the fence as possible)

 

Irene (taking him away, towards the center of the scene)

- But Carlo, why  have you brought me right here?

Carlo (trying to embrace her)

- Here or elsewhere, what does it matter? As long as we are alone ...

Irene (shivering)

- Let's go, please! I'm scared. This place inspires me terror ... (still shivering)

 

Carlo (like before,  in a resentful tone, feeling like a rejected lover)

- Come on, don't be silly. We haven't seen each other all week through and now you're messing around  with these stories here ...

Irene

- Don't take it up! What I’ve  heard about this damned bell makes me feel really  afraid of it!

Carlo (with a certain grit)

- All bullshit! Ignorance, superstitions!

Irene

- But do you know who brought the bell here? Or has it always been there?

Carlo

- Bah, I've always known it right there! But my father says they  have found it there, suddenly, like falling from the sky!

Irene (pointing the bell)

- You can see I'm right, then! It has something sinister and mysterious ... But do any people live inside there?

Carlo

- They say don’t, but I think there is someone inside. Otherwise it  wouldn’t  be fenced with barbed wire and signed "Do not cross" everywhere.

Irene

- But is it  true that anyone who trespass the barbed wire goes crazy. Crazy and deaf to both ears?

Carlo

- But don’t be silly! Do you want to see that I jump over right now?

Irene (starting to tremble, in a pleading tone)

- God watch you! Let's go away, please. I'm scared.

They go out

Third scene

(Two men in working  clothes come out of the door that leads onto the scene and set off on the path)

 

First man

- Year of hunger, this year, my friend! Really bad!

Second Man

- Shut up, mate, please!

First Man (pointing to the land beyond the bell fence)

- At least they would give us the land of the bell; that is beautiful land. You know how many sheep we would feed there!

 

Second Man (with restrained voice and looking around circumspectly)

- Shut up, please! If anyone hears our speech, we might be in trouble! Don’t  you know that it is very dangerous? (Lowering his voice even more) They say that if there were no bell, at this time, we would be even more starving than ever.

First Man (even lowering his voice and going to the opposite door from which they entered)

- They are all stupid, believe me. It’s balderdash spread by Government to cheat the ignorant poor like us. Instead I tell you that ...

  

Scene Four

(Irene and her mom)

Irene

- Mom, yesterday I was here at the Bell with Carlo!

First woman

- But my daughter, are you crazy? But how many times have I told you that you don't have to come here for any reason?

Irene

- Ugh! But why? I want to know why?

First Woman

- How many things do you want to know! The reason is that it's dangerous here!

Irene

- Ehia, I understand! But for what reason is it dangerous?

First Woman

-        My daughter! What do you want mom to know about it! But for God’ sake, don't approach this cursed place! (lowering the voice) It is a place of demons! (She makes the Sign of the Cross)

Irene (frightened but curious)

- Is it true that so many people have gone mad?

First Woman (l.b.)

- Of course it's true! There are people who have no longer returned, people who have got  mad and people who have been found dead, frightened to death on the spot! (An increasingly loud bell is heard) Quickly, my daughter! Put your ear plugs on.

(they will put on the caps they have tied around their neck like acoustic headphones for music and they will quickly leave the scene)

 

 

Fifth scene

(four young people, just entered the scene, will take their place at the table)

First young person (like speaking to an imaginary assembly, while the other three young people will remain in the shadows)

- That's enough, comrades! (He will beat his fist on the table) This way  we can no longer continue! (he will pick up a sheet and read it aloud) "In the last twenty years we have had:  fifteen dead, found near the bell and other ten found dead inside the fence. Thirty deaf men, and countless  affected by nervous breakdown! The Bell must be removed from our bid! We  can't continue going this way!

Second young man (coming out of the light)

- But how are we going to remove it? we don’t have suitable means to remove it! It is too heavy !!!!

Third young man (he too comes out of the oxen to the light)

- We wrote to the King, to the Bishop, to the Major and the  bell didn’t  move at all! Whom are we going to ask now for any help?

Fourth young man (he will join the others in the light and in a decisive tone will declare the rebellion of the people)

- We have to do it by ourselves this time! The life is ours, the earth is ours! What do you think they care at the king, the Bishop and the Major? Let's rebel and raise the people and let’s go  together to destroy the Bell!

(to these words the imaginary assembly will react with cheers of consent)

EHIA! Hawk to the bell! All together ! Death to the Bell! Bell ringers to death! Everyone is master at home! Give  the poor the land!

 

End of Act One