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Sengoku Feud
Topic Started: Aug 29 2016, 05:00 PM (176 Views)
Violet Spinel
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This is a short play I wrote that takes place in feudal Japan. It was written with a Shakespearean dialect and has Marxist overtones.

Act 1
Scene I. A feild outside the castle.
GYPSY at his stand. Enter to him DATE.

GYPSY: Who's there?

DATE: Nay, answer me: stand and unfold thyself!

GYPSY: Long live the emporer!

DATE: What have you here?

GYPSY: I peddle grain.

(A bell tolls from the castle)

DATE: 'Tis now struck tweleve;
Get thee to bed, peddler.

GYPSY: 'Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart,
But I will continue to peddle me grain.

(DATE draws his katana)

DATE: By order of Shogun Bu, return to thy home! 'Tis compulsory!

(GYPSY unsheathes a dagger. They clash. BASARA thrusts his katana into GYPSY.)

GYPSY: I am slain...

(GYPSY dies. DATE sheathes his katana and returns to the castle.)


Scene II. Inside the castle.
SHOGUN BU on his throne. Enter to him DATE.

DATE: M'lord! Long live the emperor!

SHOGUN: You come most carefully upon your hour.

DATE: My dear lord,
A peddler laboured
And by duty, I slain he
But each death haunts me so...
Pray tell, m'lord, why must the peddlers die?

SHOGUN: (Laughs) Dear Date,
Faithful basara of the Bu line
Dare you question me so?

(DATE coughs)

SHOGUN: Fear not, Date
For I will tell yuou nevertheless
The peddlers sell grain of their own,
And this grain peddling detracts from the purchase
Of my farmers' rice.

DATE: However, could not thou raise sale tax and spare their lives?

(SHOGUN lifts his finger. DATE flinches.)

SHOGUN: Dare not thou suggest motives!
Continue thy slaying of peddlers!

DATE: Y-yes, M'lord.

(Exit DATE.)


Scene III. Farmlands.
(Enter DATE)

DATE: These are the lands that the Shogun rules...

(Enter FARMER)

FARMER: Prithee, help our people!

DATE: Pray, what say thee?

FARMER: The shogun Bu hath taxed us greatly.
We are forbidden to dine on the very grain we harvest
And we haven't enough yen to feed our children.

DATE: I knew not of this corruption
And I know not if I believe thy tale
But if I turn on my master
I will surely be dishonored.

(FARMER starves, dies)

DATE: Hunger has slain he.
I must speak to my Shogun.
Perhaps I must fear not dishonor
But do what's iight in its stead.

(Enter SHO, another farmer)

SHO: I will join thee in confronting the Shogun.

(Exit DATE and SHO)


Scene IV. The throne room. (DATE and SHO confront SHOGUN)

SHOGUN: Date, why bring thou a peasant scum in the midst of myself?!

DATE: Tell me, have thou taxed the farmers?

SHOGUN: Their taxation brings wealth to this land.

(DATE draws his katana on SHOGUN BU)

SHOGUN: Thou darest draw they filthed blade on thy master? Then farewell!

(From his throne SHOGUN BU unsheathes a spear. They clash.)

SHO: An end to thy tyranny!

(SHO pushes SHOGUN into DATE'S sword. SHOGUN dies.)

SHO: We have won! Now begins an era anew! But I am wounded... (SHO weakly keels over)

DATE: Our society is turning on itself
My master is slain by my hand.
I am without honor. (DATE turns his katana on himself.)

SHO: No! Slay thyself not!

(It is too late. DATE dies.)

SHO: It was inevitable. But now the time comes to begin a new era. (He steps into the throne.) Change begins now.

THE END


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