The Hidden Blame
By: Badru Mulinsike
Published by WSIC EBooks Ltd.
Copyright November 13, 2011 by WSIC Ebooks Ltd.
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Children’s play
Introduction
Tragic Children’s Fiction.
In the St. Stephens hall Dandira. The July Literature Annual Awards. The Hidden Blame has won the double years (2009-2010) as a stage winning play leaving many with the question an answered of who should stand the blame!
Preface
The Hidden Blame. The Queen has the maiden her only daughter who she hides. And the King doesn’t know about it. It’s the same, the King, who he calls his servant, is a royal prince, his son he bore out of the palace. The King and his son keep the truth between themselves.
Finally, the servant is in love with the princess. The prince is in love with the maiden. Some of them do not know about their relationship.
Their father (King) is away to hear the gods prophesize. Time cannot wait for the truth. In the process the servant and princess die but it does not stop the prince and maiden to keep close and neither can reality. Knowing that they are related yet they are already in love saves few. Then who should stand the blame?
Main characters
King: -----True father of the servant
Prince: -----Cannot live without the company of the maiden.
Servant: ----- Meant to be king
Queen: -----Mother of the maiden
Princess: ----- The king’s life present
Maiden: ----- standing on the extreme left
The play starts: The king and his guards are preparing for a journey to meet gods. The palace is silent. Everybody is waiting to hear from the king before he leaves. His journey and prophecy is expected to last for 5 years.
King: ----- A successful man. Everybody knows what his day means. The one who makes more money than his wife can spend. I am successful. My daughter, your soul must remain rich. I am away but I remain with you.
Queen: ----- ‘Rich your soul must remain; I wonder whether she can never be reached out. She is grown up. She knows the responsibilities and you can never say that no man must reach out for her.
King: ----- No……! All is well if she hears her father speak. It is truth. The princess is different from a prince. A prince can lie on his bed and thinks of what he must do, you cannot stop him. But for a princess you have to think for her, she is delicate I need her safe, safe until I’m back.
Princess: ----- As you say king ….. My almighty father……..
King: ----- My servant and the lovely prince. The end of something is better than it’s beginning. Patience is better than pride. I would like you to keep your tamper under control; it is foolish to harbor a grudge. You will stand besides me when that wonderful time shows up…. The time when the gods of Tarme will give you each a place to rule;
Prince: ----- As you have gone father ….. Let you return with joy.
Servant: ----- Your journey master….. May your journey……
King: ----- My servant, this throne and my Crown belong to you until I’m back.
Servant: ----- The bitter and the sweet …… but I will be here to watch over it.
King: ----- My daughter. The one with whom I was blessed. Keep your conversations blue.
Princess: ----- My father …. What of my maiden? Doesn’t she need your blessings?
King: ----- The maiden….. She has to speak to no one. When I return I will find a nice man for you. Do think of those roses, it’s my life. The life you have to battle and keep living. I love you just like my daughter. Make sure no man sleeps with my princess. I have to go quickly and listen to the gods prophecies about our future. What will they say! All the Royal family….My Queen remember it is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to the one where there is merry making because the living should always remind themselves waiting for what to come next. If I disobey the gods, they will send problems and war.
King is off ….. Followed by his guards; The Royal family all exit leaving the servant to watch over the throne. He is a lone on stage.
Servant: ----- Father is away… it’s my spare I have always dreamt about. I have to be king. King of Terne. The gods say. … They speak of me. They say I am someone, someone leading somewhere. They speak loud. They speak low. They take privileges but they do not know who I am. I have a deal with me; get in love with the princess. I kill the prince and I’m king. You can regret the day you were born but you cannot regret the day you die….
Enters the prince speaking to himself.
Prince: ----- I found something much bitter than death. The woman. The love she offers you will catch you like a trap and her arms around you will hold you like a chain. It is dark…. It is light, soon it will be blue. I do not seek permission. It is irreversible now, since he is away. I am king and I need the maiden. Mum loves her most … she believes in her, When I have her, I have the kingdom.
Servant: ----- You think of being king, too late! Turn to the left I stand king. I do not even need to speak more.
Prince: ----- A servant, day dreaming to become my father’s heir.
Servant: ----- Not dreaming… I think I deserve to be the son of the king not you… look he even left his scepter with me; now tell me who you are? I am already a king.
Prince: ----- What shows that you are king…? No devil will ever wish you but they do speak to me. You are pain, I’m worried… pain of the kingdom but not king.
Servant: ----- With… so many evil sprits you think of being a king! Just because you were born in the palace, let me take chance your blood will be passed on to me.