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ISAAC
Can someone (Paul or Ben or Carl or SOMEONE) tell Isaac to go to my page PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This post is very important!
ok, So Isaac here is the script (edited and prepared) for the Bale skit (The May 4th Movement):
May Fourth Movement
Script
(Narrator 1 enter Left X Center)
Narrator 1: In Beijing on May 3, 1919 a group of students gathered to discuss protesting the government the following day, May 4th. (Group of protestors enter right, center right, form semi-circle around Protest Leader) The broader use of the May Fourth Movement often refers to the period during 1915 to 1921 more usually called the New Culture Movement. (Narrator exits Left)
Protest Leader : We are going to rise against the government! The time for change is now! (Protestors cheer)
(Both officials enter Left X Center)
Official 1: We will not change unless the people are unhappy (cover mouth, loudly mock whisper) but even then we probably won’t change.
Protest Leader: Do away with the Twenty-One demands!
Protestor 1: Yeah, do away with the 21 demands!
Protest Leader: (nods head while gesturing with hands) That’s the way…. (Protestors cheer)
Narrator 2: The 21 Demands were a set of “requests” from the Japanese government delivered to China, basically stating that Japan was to take over everything in China. Included was a limited trade with Japan only, concerning any imports including weaponry and other goods.
Official 2 : It appears the citizens are upset.
Official 1: (to official 2, murmur) No shiz Sherlock. (louder) So what are we going to do?
Protestor 2: Don’t sign the Versailles Treaty! (All Protesters join and repeat)
Narrator 1: The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, allowing Japan to retain control over Shandong. This greatly upset the Chinese, another cause for a revolt.
Official 2 : (Bored) Maybe if we arrest a few of them, they’ll stop.
Official 1 : Sounds good. (They both exit Left)
Police : Stop this right now! Do not speak against the government! (Said loudly as he enters Left X Right)
(Protesting continues ; as arresting commences, protestors begin beating police with sign)
Police : That’s it, you’re coming with me! (Takes two of the protestors Left to exit)
Protestors 1 + 2: Agh!!!! (Said as being dragged off, still whacking the police with the signs.
(Protesting begins dying away, but not totally gone as the police and protestors move far back, still struggling with arrest and beating)
(Officials enter USL, speaking whilst crossing)
Official 1 : Maybe if we change they’ll stop (looking concerned at the commotion)
Official 2: Don’t give in.
(Officials exit Right)
Protest Leader: Well, now it’s you and me. Why are you here? I haven’t heard you say anything unique to the others.
Protestor 3: I learned that there was going to be something to do with foot binding. I was hoping you all might enlighten me on that, it sounds like a truly horrid task to be rid of.
Protest Leader: Yeah, well I’m not quite and expert on anything and am not fully aware of anything to do with that. You may need to go somewhere else for that sort of information.
Narrator 2: In 1911, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the new Republic of China government banned foot binding. Women were told to unwrap their feet lest they be killed. Some woman’s' feet grew a half-inch to an inch after the unwrapping, though some found the new growth process extremely painful as well as emotionally and culturally devastating. Still, societies were founded to support the abolition of foot binding, with contractual agreements made between families who would promise an infant son in marriage to an infant daughter who did not have bound feet.
(End)
This post is very important!
ok, So Isaac here is the script (edited and prepared) for the Bale skit (The May 4th Movement):
May Fourth Movement
Script
(Narrator 1 enter Left X Center)
Narrator 1: In Beijing on May 3, 1919 a group of students gathered to discuss protesting the government the following day, May 4th. (Group of protestors enter right, center right, form semi-circle around Protest Leader) The broader use of the May Fourth Movement often refers to the period during 1915 to 1921 more usually called the New Culture Movement. (Narrator exits Left)
Protest Leader : We are going to rise against the government! The time for change is now! (Protestors cheer)
(Both officials enter Left X Center)
Official 1: We will not change unless the people are unhappy (cover mouth, loudly mock whisper) but even then we probably won’t change.
Protest Leader: Do away with the Twenty-One demands!
Protestor 1: Yeah, do away with the 21 demands!
Protest Leader: (nods head while gesturing with hands) That’s the way…. (Protestors cheer)
Narrator 2: The 21 Demands were a set of “requests” from the Japanese government delivered to China, basically stating that Japan was to take over everything in China. Included was a limited trade with Japan only, concerning any imports including weaponry and other goods.
Official 2 : It appears the citizens are upset.
Official 1: (to official 2, murmur) No shiz Sherlock. (louder) So what are we going to do?
Protestor 2: Don’t sign the Versailles Treaty! (All Protesters join and repeat)
Narrator 1: The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, allowing Japan to retain control over Shandong. This greatly upset the Chinese, another cause for a revolt.
Official 2 : (Bored) Maybe if we arrest a few of them, they’ll stop.
Official 1 : Sounds good. (They both exit Left)
Police : Stop this right now! Do not speak against the government! (Said loudly as he enters Left X Right)
(Protesting continues ; as arresting commences, protestors begin beating police with sign)
Police : That’s it, you’re coming with me! (Takes two of the protestors Left to exit)
Protestors 1 + 2: Agh!!!! (Said as being dragged off, still whacking the police with the signs.
(Protesting begins dying away, but not totally gone as the police and protestors move far back, still struggling with arrest and beating)
(Officials enter USL, speaking whilst crossing)
Official 1 : Maybe if we change they’ll stop (looking concerned at the commotion)
Official 2: Don’t give in.
(Officials exit Right)
Protest Leader: Well, now it’s you and me. Why are you here? I haven’t heard you say anything unique to the others.
Protestor 3: I learned that there was going to be something to do with foot binding. I was hoping you all might enlighten me on that, it sounds like a truly horrid task to be rid of.
Protest Leader: Yeah, well I’m not quite and expert on anything and am not fully aware of anything to do with that. You may need to go somewhere else for that sort of information.
Narrator 2: In 1911, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the new Republic of China government banned foot binding. Women were told to unwrap their feet lest they be killed. Some woman’s' feet grew a half-inch to an inch after the unwrapping, though some found the new growth process extremely painful as well as emotionally and culturally devastating. Still, societies were founded to support the abolition of foot binding, with contractual agreements made between families who would promise an infant son in marriage to an infant daughter who did not have bound feet.
(End)
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