Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays

SCENE V.

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_The Music_ _The Pantomime, etc._

Wind instrument [A plain drop] _The Shepherd_ is discovered well to the left, piping for the Goat _Goat_ is dancing

Begin Princess _Goat_ stops to listen, looks off to the right rhythm _Shepherd_ looks to the right _Goat_ crosses to extreme right, bows _Princess and retinue_ enter

Tap They halt

Tap _The Shepherd_ kneels to the Princess, then dances for her

Stringed instrument

Drum roll _pp. _The Goat_ becomes alarmed crescendo_ _All_ turn and look to the right _Goat_, on all fours, offers his back to the Princess _Shepherd_ induces _Princess_ to sit on Goat's back

Princess rhythm _Goat_ exits, followed by Princess and retinue

Tap _Shepherd_ folds his arms

Wazir rhythm _Wazir's Court_ and _Ghurri-Wurri_ enter from the right

Tap They halt

Tap _Wazir_ points to Shepherd

Tap _Vizier_ brandishes his scimiter

Drum roll _Nubian_ approaches Shepherd

Drum crash _Nubian_ falls

Drum roll _Wazir_ shakes his fists _Crescendo_ Points at Shepherd to _Vizier_ attacks Shepherd with scimiter _Shepherd_ grasps scimiter They struggle, conventionally, one, two, three, four, five, six

Drum crash _The Shepherd_ falls

Drum roll _The Vizier_ waves his scimiter aloft

Drum roll _Wazir_ exults

Tap _Nubian_ rises

Tap _Wazir_ points to the right

Tap _Vizier_ points at Shepherd with scimiter

Tap _Nubian_ seizes the Shepherd

Wazir rhythm _Wazir's Court_ and _Shepherd_ exit at the right, ignoring Ghurri-Wurri, Nubian and Shepherd first, then Vizier, then Wazir. [All cross behind the drop to left of stage ready for