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THE
SEVEN
COMMANDMENTS
BY
Patrick
Reilly
BASED ON
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
DIRECTED BY Renee Flemings
SNOWBALL……………………..JaQuawn
Turner
Napoleon…………………….. Patrick
Reilly
Squealer……………………… James
Smith
Scene1
(there is a desk on stage. Two cups sit on the desk empty. Noise is heard off stage right. Napoleon and snowball enters.)
(snowball walks to the desk and drinks from the glass.)
Napoleon(nap); how after hearing something like that can you drink ?
Snow: Well I would eat but, there no food.
Nap: just like old major said.
Snow: Ya, that was something. I mean I really open my eyes.
Nap: just your eyes, it opened my world. ( pause) We can do it.
Snow: What?
Nap: what he was saying, about revolution, and change.
Snow: Well lets not take this too far. Let us take what Old major said and remember it for times soon to come. (pause) Napoleon times are not as bad as you think.
Nap: What, “not as bad as you think.” Are you crazy you fat pig who closes his eyes to the truth. ( pulls up sleeve to revile a scar) Why Is this O.K? (turns away ) Snowball this was not an attack by a other animal, no this is a scar from him. Mr. Jones! ( looks at snow ball ) But I’ll wait.
Scene!
Scene 2
Snow: ( to aud.) sadly old major died three days later. And napoleon was ready. A few months later Mr. Jones got drunk and didn’t feed us and well. We took the farm and the pigs are in charge. He’s doing something at the barn I should go see.
Nap: snowball! Come see what I’ve done.
Show: What? The 7 commandments! ( reads to self) Wow you wrote this?
Nap: well, squealer wrote it but, I dictated it to him. So yes, yes I did.
Snow: oh that‘s good, is that what today’s meetings about?
Nap: well yes, this and some other things.
(Squealer enters)
Nap: ah, my right himself. Snowball you know squealer.
Snow: yes, hello Squealer.
Squealer (has Russian ascend): Good day comrade, I am sorry to intrude but, Napoleon you are need now.
Nap: yes of course come snowball watch with me.
(Squealer puts up the sign as napoleon and snowball set up chairs facing aud. Squealer stands center.)
Squealer: my fellow comrades, welcome to the rest of are free lives! This is are time, yes but, we still must have order. Beside me hangs the seven commandments we must fallow to continue a happy life on this farm:
1. Whatever walks on two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever walks on four legs or wings is friend.
3. ---
(Freezes.)
Snow: Napoleon I have an idea I want to say after this.
Nap: No
Snow: What, why?
Nap: Cause I’m in charge.
Snow: What? No one is in charge. This (pause) this was never about the farm I was always about you. (pause) Hello? Napoleons talk to m-
Nap: Quiet, you’re getting loud.
Snow: Oh, or what?
Nap: Quiet down snowball.
Snow: I bet the rules do not apply to you?
Nap: and your idea was for the farm?
Snow: Yes, It was a mill so we can-
Nap : shhh. He is almost done
Squealer: 7. all animals are equal.
Scene!
Scene 3
Snow: Well before I could tell anyone napoleon had his dogs chase me out of Animal Farm. Any time I came close those damm secret police dogs of his chased me out. The little I saw of my home upset me. It had turned back to the Jones farm. Only Mr. Jones looked more piggish than ever. Years later I finally returned when Napoleon had a big open house for all the other framers to come and inspected the farm. All the other animals were standing out side, which I found odd. I peaked in the window to see the pigs but I saw no pigs (pause) only enemy, man.
The end!