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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, Emma Reeves
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, Emma Reeves
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Romantic Meg. Shy Beth. Wilful Amy. And, of course, passionate and fiery Jo. Little Women tells the story of the March sisters growing up in genteel poverty against the backdrop of the American Civil War. This timeless tale of four sisters' adventures has enchanted millions of readers, and is now available in this acclaimed adaptation for the stage.
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Act One
Setting: An attic, a place where memories are stored. There are four chests, labelled âMegâ, âJoâ, âBethâ and âAmyâ, containing various props used for the show. Dust sheets and gauzes are hung around the stage, creating different spaces which allow us to travel in space and time in a second. The action moves quickly and fluidly â scenes flow into each other and there are as few scene changes as possible.
PROLOGUE
Song: In the Bleak Midwinter
FULL CAST:
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty winds made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone.
Snow had fallen, snow on snow
Snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long ago.
The song continues, hummed quietly, as JO, 20s, enters the attic and looks about. She has not been up here for a long time. She sees Megâs chest in a far corner, and reads the lettering, âMegâ.
JO: MegâŠ
JO opens the chest and finds an old, broken fan inside. She tries to open it, but it is ruined. As she does so, MEG appears in her memory, flirting with her unbroken fan.
MEG: I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things â pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people â and heaps of money.
JO moves to the next chest and takes out an old paint brush.
JO: AmyâŠ
AMY appears with the brush.
AMY: I want to go to Rome, and do fine pictures, and be the best artist in the whole world.
JO finds an old manuscript in the âJoâ chest and reads it.
JO: âIâm going to do something splendid â something heroic, and wonderful, that wonât be forgotten after Iâm gone.â
JO moves on to the final chest, marked âBethâ. She pulls out the doll, Joanna.
Beth.
BETH appears with her doll.
BETH: I only wish we could all stay together.
JO: BethâŠ
The sisters disappear.
SFX: Gunfire.
SFX: Gunfire.
(To the audience, narrating.) It was the second winter of the war.
Behind the gauze, dimly lit, women wave men off to war.
A different scene now than in the first, hopeful days, when young men and boys filled the ranks.
MEG, BETH and AMY join JO one by one.
MEG: Now the blue coats were worn by mature men.
BETH: One of them was our father. We agreed â
AMY: In principle â
MEG: That it would be wrong, to spend money for pleasure â
BETH: When our men were suffering so in the army.
AMY: But still â
MEG: â As Jo observed, one winter evening â
SCENE ONE
The March house. MEG (16), BETH (13) and AMY (12) are setting out food. JO (15) joins them and the scene begins:
JO: Christmas wonât be Christmas without any presents.
MEG: Itâs so dreadful to be poor.
AMY: I donât think itâs fair for some girls to have lots of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
BETH: Weâve got Father, and Mother, and each other, anyhow.
JO: We havenât got Father, and we wonât for a long time.
AMY: Perhaps never.
JO: Donât say that!
BETH: (Peacemaking.) It was so brave of Father to volunteer as a chaplain, when he wasnât strong enough for a soldier.
JO: Of course he did! And donât I wish I could go, too?
MEG: No you donât, Jo.
JO: I do, though! Iâm dying to go and fight with Pa, but instead I have to stay at home and slave for poky old Aunt March.
Christopher Columbus!
Christopher Columbus!
AMY: Donât use slang, Jo; itâs so boyish.
JO: Thatâs why I do it.
AMY: I detest rude, unladylike girls.
JO: I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits.
MEG: Girls! Really!
JO: Sorry Meg. I just wish I was a boy, thatâs all.
MEG: Well, youâre not.
BETH: Poor Jo! Itâs too bad, but it canât be helped, so you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls.
JO: (Energetic.) That reminds me â thereâs still heaps to do about the play for Christmas night! We should rehearse!
BETH runs to a chest and hands out makeshift props. AMY has a gold paper crown, JO a swirling âvillainâ cape and a sword, etc.
MEG: Better do it now â then we can have supper as soon as Marmee gets home.
JO: Meg, youâll have to announce us.
MEG: I donât think I should act any more. Iâm getting too old for such things.
JO: Nonsense! You know you love it, so just get on with it.
MEG: (Announces dramatically.) The Witchâs Curse, a Tragedy by Miss Josephine March.
JO: Overture â thatâs you Beth â
BETH: Do I have to?
JO: Youâre the best musician weâve got.
BETH: But I hate to play in front of people â it frightens me. And that jangling old piano hurts my ears â it never keeps in tune â
JO: (Si...