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I search of You at Dawn
Just when the shadows of the night
Are made pale by the rising sun
You are my first thought;
perhaps instinctively,
or for fear,
may be for love!
Grant me my Lord
to meet You
at the dawn
of our new life.
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Scene IV
(Soon after a clock has beaten up five hits, someone beats the entrance door)
Francesco (detaching himself)
- Someone has knocked at the door! May be Max is back.
Brenda (going to open the door)
- He often forgets his own keys when I’m at home though I’m waiting for someone at five o’clock!
Jonathan(Enters with a bag on his shoulder)
-Hello Brenda! Where’s old Max! I got a present for him in this bag!!!
Brenda (with surprise)
-It’s you, Jon?!? Welcome!! Max is coming back soon! Leave your present in your bag, please! I want to introduce to you a good italian friend of ours…….
Scene V
After they hear knocking at the door, Brenda goes to open it
(Enter Inspector Green and his two policemen)
Insp. Green (while entering, showing his badge)
-Everybody keep steady, please! That’s a legal search! (to Jonathan) And you Norman or Vincent or whatever you have been named in your Jamaica, give us that bag!!!
Jonathan ( still with his hand in the bag)
-I don’t think there is nothing interesting a legal search in my bag!!!
Insp. Green ( with sarcastic smile)
-Don’t worry about that, maroon! It’s up to us the valuation, isn’t it boys???
First PM
-Come on , young boy! Don’t make the Inspector been upset…
Second PM
- And I’m also very nervous indeed!!!
Jonathan
-I’m telling you that there is only a present for my friend’s Max birthday!!!!
Insp. Green(still sarcastic)
-Well! Why not? A very good present from Jamaica…
First PM (getting closer and grabbing Jon’s bag)
-Let’s see your present…
Second PM (drawing the pack out )
-I’ll try a guess! It weighs a pound…more and less
Insp. Green (tearing off the paper)
-Bloody Hell! Someone is kidding up!!! What does this book here mean ?
Jonathan (catching the paper from the floor in a very nervous voice)
-I believe I’ve told you a few times before, haven’t I? I hope you have some good paper to wrap it up again!!!!
First PM (grabbing the book)
-The Trilogy of Don Juan!!
Second PM (sneering)
-Who is going to read such a boring thing?!?
Jonathan (grabbing violently the book from his hands)
-I doubt you would be able to understand a only word of it!!!
Insp. Green (emptying the bag’s content on the floor)
-Well ! OK! Let’s stop messing around! You give us the stuff and we all be all right? Where is that pound of grass from Jamaica?
Jonathan (always angrier collecting his things from the floor)
-Listen to me now! My name is Jonathan Close! J, o, n, ‘you know? Without any h! My father is Jew ‘ you know? Though I can reasonably suppose that my ancestor’s bones rest in the English ground much before than yours’s! When in life they were famous for other pounds of different stuff….now if you’re looking for any grass either you go in to my house’s lawn or you catch a plane right to your beloved Jamaica, all right???
Insp. Green
- All right! You have well played your role, young boys! Just collect your things and let’s work out our business!! Who is the landlord here?
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A unique soul
I'm far from you now
but we were supposed to be
only one flesh
may be
a unique soul.
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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)
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
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!"
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.
