ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title> The Odyssey script sample </title> <META content="A Odyssey play script sample excerpt." name=description> <META content="The Odyssey play script sample excerpt, plays for middle school kids high school drama plays downloadable" name=keywords> <META content=index,follow name=robots> <META content="Education&#6;" name=classification> </head> <!--This script gives the background and text parameters for the The Odyssey play script sample excerpt--> <body text=#008000 size=3 vLink=#ff0000 aLink=#ff9900 link=#ff0000 bgColor=#ffffff> <!--End of Script--> <!--This script sets flexible margins for the The Odyssey play script sample excerpt--> <style type="text/css"> body { margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; }</style> <!--End of Script--> <!--Script for Bookstore logo and The Odyssey comedy scripts, skits--> <IMG width=120 border=0 height=87 align="right" src="http://www.creativeeducationalsystems.com/web_imgs/Bookstore logo.jpg"> <center> <b> <font color="ff0000"> <h1> The Odyssey </h1> </font> <br> <h2> play script sample </h2> </font> </b> </center> <br> <br><br> <center> <table border="0"> <tr> <td width="15%" valign="top"> THE HERO: </td> <td width="85%" valign="top"> <i>(addresses the audience)</i>It's so easy to forget what you're after, where you're going and why you want to go. Ten years we fought in a war, and ten years it took us to get home again. So many things to make us forget. And so many things to make us remember. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE TESTER </td> <td> <i>(Appearing as the CYCLOPS at one side of the stage)</i> Like me, Odysseus? </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <i>(As the two confront each other across open space, the players pantomime the series of events as described: Odysseus and his men enter the CYCLOPS' cave, steal cheese and wine; CYCLOPS arrives with his flock of giant sheep, blocks the entrance to the cave with a huge boulder; he discovers Odysseus and his men, kills one of them; Odysseus offers the CYCLOPS wine which he drinks and then falls into a drunken stupor; Odysseus and his men pick up a stake and blind the CYCLOPS' one eye; the men escape under the bellies of the sheep, and the CYCLOPS rages to his father, the god Poseidon. All this happens during the following dialogue.)</i> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE HERO: </td> <td> Yes, like you, Cyclops, bastard son of Poseidon, one-eyed brat of the sea god! </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE TESTER: </td> <td> You, insult me? Thief! Would-be murderer! You blinded me, robbed me of sight, got me drunk and attacked me as a guest in my home! </td> </tr> <tr> <td> THE HERO: </td> <td> You foul-smelling monster! Does a host devour his guests and then pick his teeth with their bones? </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE TESTER: </td> <td> He does when they come sneaking in the night to ransack his cave, stealing cheeses and wine and his sheep and his goods. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE HERO: </td> <td> But I am a king and I sought your protection. Besides, to break the laws of hospitality is an offense to the gods. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE TESTER: </td> <td> What do I care for your laws or your gods? I am the son of a god! And Poseidon, my father, will not soon forget the outrage you brought down upon me. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE HERO: </td> <td> What outrage? Was I not to protect myself and my men? You had killed several already and blocked passage to escape with a rock too heavy for all of my men to budge. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE TESTER: </td> <td> So you, brave hero, got me drunk on Athenian wine. And put out my one eye with a fire-sharpened stake. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE HERO: </td> <td> Yes, and while you were howling with rage, my men and I clung to the bellies of your sheep and your rams, so when you moved the rock from the mouth of the cave, we escaped with your flocks and were free! </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> THE TESTER: </td> <td> Free, yes, of me. But not of my father! Poseidon, god of the sea, avenges his children... and blind though I am, still my prayers will be heard... and your way home will bring you even more terrors than you can imagine... and nightmares will seem like blessings of comfort! </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td> <i>(THE HERO and THE TESTER each sink to the ground, exhausted by the intensity of their psychic battle. The rest of the players, who had exited under the "sheep," re-enter and fall to the ground, as if exhausted, washed ashore on a beach. All "sleep." Suddenly, THE DOUBTER wakes, alert, staring off into the distance. 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