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Just So: Eldest Magican Lines And Cues > Lines > Flashcards

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A1S1 Enter UR. Stairs, bag, (other blocking), move to UL on stairs and platforms

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Before the High and Far-Off Times, O My Best Beloved, long before the Rhino had baggy skin, or the Leopard had spots, or the Kangaroo had bounce, or the Elephant had a trunk, came the Time of the Very Beginnings and that was in the days when the Eldest Magician was getting things ready… (beat)
First he got the Earth ready… (beat)
Then he got the Sea ready… (beat)
And then he told all the animals that they could come out and play…

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A1S1 (Puppeteering the Animals, they turn slowly and land in a position facing DL)

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The Eldest Magician was very pleased with his Creations… (he looks at each of them with increasing concern)…until he realized that they all looked alike. And the Animals said…

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A1S1(Animals) O Eldest Magician, what shall we play at for we all look the same?

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And he said… I will tell you… (into Just So)

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A1S2(continuing from where Just So ended)

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(To audience) Now, hear and attend and listen, Best Beloved, for this is what befell, and behappened, and became… and was. Bit by bit, the Animals went away to fill the world; bit by bit they began to change; and bit by bit they became bothered by the one creature who would not play the game that he was supposed to play. (Beat) Instead, Pau Amma the Crab played with the sea. (Stage affect?) He grew so huge that no Magic could control him. One side of his shell touched the beach at Sarawak, and the other touched the beach at Pahang. He was as tall as the smoke of three volcanoes. Once a day and once a night he would go out in search of food, causing the seawater to flood the land - which threatened the lives of all the other animals, ruining their homes and making it most troublesome for them to find food. So, everyone became…well…crabby.

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A1S2 (The elephants enter the stage, led by the king and queen elephants… the eldest magician sees them approaching)

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Even the noble Elephants - who in those days had no trunk, Best Beloved, they had only a blackish bulgy nose as big as a boot - even the noble Elephants were not spared the indignity of a flooded homestead.

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A1S2(Queen Elephant) But how are we to do anything? He lives many fathoms down, at the Heart of the Sea.

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(Aside) And so said all the animals… except for one. For there was one Elephant - a new Elephant - an Elephant’s Child, who was full of insatiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. (Into There’s No Harm In Asking)

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) Well, why shouldn’t I? He may be fearsome big, but if a Blowfly can bother a Buffalo and a Tick can tickle a Tiger, I can calm a Crab. I shall find him. (He turns and bumps straight into the Eldest Magician)

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And what will you say to him when you do?

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) I shall ask him most politely to stop playing with the sea.

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(To audience) Such infinite-resource-and-sagacity… (sit as if to say “this could take a while”. The Elephant’s Child sits as well)… Do you know where to find him?

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) Most certainly I do not.

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Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two—
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) But I do wish I could.

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Well, a wish is the first part of a Magic.

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) A Magic?!

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Now, you’ll need something to take with you.

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) A map!

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Not exactly…(snap fingers, kolokolo bird appears)

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child, to kolokolo) Who are you?

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A Kolokolo Bird.

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A1S2a(Kolokolo Bird) About as much good as an Elephant’s Child who doesn’t know how to find the Crab.

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And that’s where you come in. Tell him what you know.

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A1S2a(Elephant’s Child) Perfect! I’ll take her - she has an answer for everything.

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And you, my little pachyderm, have a question for everything - which is why I think you’ll make the perfect team.

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A1S2a(Kolokolo Bird) You need me?

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He needs you. (Into The Limpopo River)

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A1S2c(Limpopo River ends, the boat with the Elephant’s Child and the Kolokolo Bird sails off)

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(The Eldest Magician waves then off then site in contemplation on the stage) And so it was their journey began from Mangalore. The winds were fair, the swell unswollen, and their progress prompt. Until… (effect) Pau Amma, once again rose up from the Heart of the Sea.
The tiny raft was thrown hundreds of miles off-course. Eventually getting washed up on an uninhabited island.
Now this uninhabited island
Is off Cape Gardafui
And on it lives a Parsee Man
Called Pestonjee Bomonjee
He lives there on his lonesome
With nothing very much
But his hat, his knife and a cooking stove
Of the kind you must never touch. (Exit)

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A1S3(Parsee) Quick, behind here. Stick your heads in the sand.

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(The Eldest Magician appears, he hurriedly and confidentially offers an explanation…) At that self-same, exact and precise moment, Best Beloved, a Rhinoceros came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior. In those days, his skin fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere. He had a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes and precious few manners. (Step aside, let rhino take center stage, into Thick Skin)

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A1S3a(Parsee) No-one. I told you the island is uninhabited. Nearghh!

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(The Eldest Magician pops up behind Parsee, scaring him) How goes it with the world-so-new-and-all?

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A1S3a(Kolokolo Bird) Nothing here but a half-baked baker.

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Well, you’ve been blown somewhat off-course. There’s no point dancing hornpipes where you shouldn’t. Onwards.

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A1S3a(Elephant’s Child) It’s a pity - but a Parsee cake would have made a wonderful gift for Pau Amma.

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A gift for the Crab?

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A1S3a(Parsee) Zip! Emergency rations are for emergencies.

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Well, isn’t this an emergency?

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A1S3a(Parsee) I don’t know, I’ve never had one before.

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If you help the Elephant’s Child he might be able change the ways of the Crab.

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A1S3a(Kolokolo Bird) This from a person who talks to his oven.

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(Referring to Elephant’s Child) He was big enough to have the idea.

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A1S3c(Kolokolo Bird) Don’t get me started on good ideas - my idea of a good idea is being asleep….. in a nest…… in a bush. My idea of a bad idea is being in a raft on the open sea with an Elephant-who-doesn’t-have-a-clue—

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(The Eldest Magician hops aboard the moving raft)

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A1S3c(Elephant’s Child) Why don’t you have a wand? Why don’t you make a Magic to control the Crab?

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So many silly questions.

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A1S3c(Kolokolo Bird) You know, that one wasn’t so silly. Why don’t you do something about the Crab?

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Not everything can be solved with Big Medicine and Strong Magic. I cannot make Pau Amma play the play because…

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A1S3c(Kolokolo Bird) Because he escaped you at the Time of the Very Beginnings!

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(Embarrassed) Yes… and now no Magic can penetrate his hard rosy-ruddyreddish shell.

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A1S4(Kolokolo Bird) Hey, No Magic, does this thing go any faster?

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(The Eldest Magician blows on the sail and hops off the raft again, the raft exits) The little raft, full of little children, sailed into the crest of the lippetylappety waves until it reached the coast of Africa. So that’s alright, Best Beloved, do you see? Now, in the days when everybody started fair the Giraffe (giraffe enters, noise)… And the Zebra (zebra enters, noise)… Lived together with a herd of somewhat less than interesting Wildesbeest.

30
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A1S4(a herd of wildebeest enter) Hello. Alright?

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They lived in a place called the High Veldt.

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A1S4a(Wildebeest) Oh, we rather like it.

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But it wasn’t very good for them there because the Jaguar…

32
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A1S4a(Jaguar appears) With his teeth and claws.

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And the Leopard.

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A1S4a(Leopard appears) With his scurrilous whiskers.

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Were making advances.

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A1S5(Pick Up Your Hooves and Trot ends, we are in the jungle now)

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(The Eldest Magician coordinates the set change) Bit by bit the Giraffe and Zebra went away from the High Veldt.

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A1S5(Wildebeest 1) Was it something we said?

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They scuttled for days and days till they come to a great, high, tall jungle full of tree trunks all ‘sclusively speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. (To wildebeest) Say that quickly aloud and you will see how very shadowy the jungle must have been.

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A1S5a(Zebra, cuing Jungle Light) Where?

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(The Eldest Magician plays with the light beams, into Jungle Light) JUNGLE LIGHT

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A1S5a(Elephant’s Child) If you stand very still, half in the shade and half out of it, the Cats won’t be able to see you unless they know precisely where to look.

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JUNGLE LIGHT

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A1S5a(Giraffe) How weird. He’s right, Zeb. Look - the way the light is falling.

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JUNGLE LIGHT

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A1S5a(Elephant’s Child) Go and stand over there (aside, not knowing the Eldest Magician can really hear him) Oh, Eldest Magician, help me to make a Magic.

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(Into Jungle Light properly)
JUNGLE LIGHT
NO ONE CAN ESCAPE IT’S TOUCH
REACHING DOWN BETWEEN THE LEAVES………

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A1S5a(All)
REACHING DONW BETWEEN THE LEAVES
LIGHT DISTORTS AND LIFHT DECEIVES
WHERE THE RAYS OF SUNLIGHT LAND
THERE YOUR BODIES WILL BE TANNED
JUNGLE LIGHT

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I am the Eldest Magician?… (jungle light)
Saying, in most wise tones?…. (jungle light)
“Let us melt into the landscape…… (jungle light)
Just us two by our lones.”

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A1S5b(Zebra) This is the most outrageous suntan I’ve ever laid my eyes on.

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It was as the Eldest Magician had asked at the Time of the Very Beginnings - the Giraffe and the Zebra were first to have truly found their individuality. Meanwhile, back on the Veldt…

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A1S5b(Leopard) I remember them perfectly - especially their marrow bones. (Leopard and Jaguar exit)

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Word quickly spread…

43
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A1S5b(Just So reprise ends abruptly. Pau Amma enters-ish, set stuff)

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With a thunderous rush the sweet-water of the rivers was drawn out of the estuaries leaving nothing but mud, as Pau Amma emerged from his hollow at the Heart of the Sea.

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A1S5c(Kolokolo Bird, referring to Elephant’s child) You can’t give up now. We’ll think of something. We must.

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And the Magician knew that despite the cowardice of the many, it was now only the bravery of the two that could stop Pau Amma. (Watching from above, into Limpopo River Reprise)

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A2S1(Kolokolo Bird) Well which part of the word don’t you understand?

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Leaving the Giraffe and Zebra to live harmoniously in the Jungle, our two ingenues were having a rather-less-than harmonious time on their way to a certain river, of the great, grey-green greasy kind.

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A2S1(Elephant’s Child) This is ridiculous.

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Oh dear.

47
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A2S1(Kolokolo Bird) Don’t tempt me.

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Ouch!

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A2S1(Kolokolo Bird) Ok, supposing we do find the Limpopo. Asking Pau Amma “most politely to stop playing with the Sea” didn’t work. So what are you going to try next time? Huh?

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All the talk we have ever heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird —
Hide or fin or scale or feather —
Jabber it quickly and all together!
Excellent! Wonderful! Once again!
Now we are talking just like men.

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A2S1b(The argument ends) BIRDS TAKE THE AIR IN THEIR STRIDE AFTER ALL (kolokolo bird sits in sadness)

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And it isn’t the shame and it isn’t the blame
That stings like a white-hot brand —
It’s coming to know that she doesn’t know why
Some find delight when they take to the sky
While others stay stuck on the land.

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A2S2(The howling desert, Elephant’s Child) This is your fault! It’s not working.

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‘It’s not’ or ‘you’re not’?

51
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A2S2(Elephant’s Child) I should have found the river by now and instead I’m in the middle of some Howling Desert.

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Sometimes the very thing you are looking for is under your nose all the time.

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A2S2(Elephant’s Child) Under my nose! You mean we’ve already been near the Limpopo? And she didn’t even notice! I knew I was better off without her.

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I’ve a head like a concertina
I’ve a tongue like a button stick
I’ve a mouth like an old potato
And I’m more than a little sick

53
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A2S2(Elephant’s Child) Riddles, conundrums and tongue-twisters! Can no-one give me a straight answer?

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People who get too big for their boots sometimes find that their boots get too big for them. I think there’s someone you should meet. (Step aside)

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A2S2c(Kangaroo) Aaaargh! What’s happened? You’ve played Old Scratch with my legs.

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Perhaps I’m mistaken, but didn’t you ask me to make you different from all other animals, as well as to make you very truly sought after?

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A2S2c(Wallaby) You can say that again! (The wallabies exit laughing and pointing at the kangaroo)

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Joke? Say that again and I’ll whistle up Dingo and run you hind legs off.

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A2S2c(Elephant’s Child) So I’m to have big boots am I?

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Take a lesson by it and remember.

57
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A2S3(Ripe Bananas ends) FOR DINNER

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Now and then you will hear grown-ups say “A Leopard cannot change his spots”. I don’t think even grown-ups would keep on saying such a silly thing if the Leopard hadn’t done it once before. But he will never do it again, Best Beloved. (Into Just so reprise cat’s version)

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A2S3a(Just so reprise cat’s version ends, Elephant’s Child) Now the Giraffe and Zebra are no better off than they were on the High Veldt.

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These are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they. (Snaps fingers)

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A2S3a(Elephant’s Child) So will the chase never stop? Will there always be hunters and the hunted?

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(Snaps fingers) These are the Laws of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky.

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A3S3d(Kolokolo Bird) You Know, in a funny sort of way it suits you?…and?… don’t you see you’ve changed, you’ve grown. Like Old Magic said, sometimes the very thing you are looking for is under your nose all the time, and now you have a……..

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A trunk.

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A2S3d(Elephant’s Child) So the crab sheds his shell?… His hard rosy-ruddy-reddish shell?…His hard rosy-ruddy-reddish shell that Big Magic and Strong medicine cannot penetrate?… So that’s when we attack! We must wait until the next time Pau Amma sheds his shell, lure him out of his home at the Heart of the Sea then the Eldest Magician can make a Magic to shrink him back down to size!

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How wise are little children who speak truth.

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A2S3d(Kolokolo Bird) Let’s split the difference - I’ll take the Crow’s nest.

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This is the midnight — let no star
Delude us — dawn is very far
This is the tempest long fortold —
Slow to make head but sure to hold. (Into If - the Crab)

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A2S3e(If-The Crab ends, Elephant’s Child) It actually worked! (Pau Amma appears, tiny)

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You are not so important after all, Pau Amma.

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A2S3e(Elephant’s Child) I think we should let him go. He can’t harm us anymore.

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You hear that, Pau Amma? You can go free. You will be safe in both deep water and on dry land.

65
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A2S3e(Wildebeest) And play with the sea once more?

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Because the Elephant’s Child has made a Magic that will keep him humble.

66
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A2S3e(Elephant’s Child) We wondered if, from now on, it could be the Moon and not the Crab that plays with the Sea.

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The Moon? You know, that’s not a bad idea. The Moon! (They raise their hands to the moon)

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A2S3(Kolokolo Bird) And the Elephant’s Child.

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(All) The Elephant’s Child! (The Eldest Magician addresses his creatures once more, into Finale: Just So)

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