old indian trick
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a play for Leader (a man) and Chorus (3 people mixed) . . . written in 1982TRANSCRIPT
OLD INDIANTRICK
a Play for Leader and Chorus
Larry Goodell2012
this play was written in 1982
Photo: “Here Chiricahua Apache men run a 100 yard race at a picnic event. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number:
N53318.”
Copyright © 2012 Larry Goodell
write the author for performance rightsduende digital book
duende press2012
po box 571 placitas, new mexico 87043 USA
OLD INDIAN TRICK
1
Characters
Leader (man)Chorus (3 or more mixed voices)
(Play can be rehearsed but not memorizedand is read from the page. Leader & Chorus may standbefore lecturns or sit at a table)
LEADER: Ancient Indian rock drama
rock drama drama drama bums drama
CHORUS: drama drama
LEADER: rock bums drama bums
CHORUS: ancient Indian rock drama crackling voices in the chorus
LEADER: crackling voices in the chorus mellowing
CHORUS: mellowing
2
LEADER: single solo rising staticing
CHORUS: disappearing nearing the destination
LEADER: nearing the destination, floating moving on it over it ancient Indian rock drama floating over the map
CHORUS: map reading map reading contour developing developing
LEADER: drama bumming bummed out crack disappear mellow out
CHORUS: ancient Indian rock drama
LEADER: floats over disappearing act getting fat disappearing
CHORUS: getting fast disappearing
LEADER: ancient Indian disappearing act old Indian drama trick
CHORUS: old Indian trick
LEADER: disappearing fast fast disappearing only chards and low walls left
3
CHORUS: ancient Indian rock drama only chards and low walls left
LEADER: are you kidding
CHORUS: I'm kidding you
LEADER: you're kidding who
CHORUS: I'm kidding you
LEADER: bummed out running I'm kidding you
CHORUS: we're still in the running
LEADER: you're running
CHORUS: over the map
LEADER: the map runneth over
CHORUS: we've hit the corners
LEADER: the map runs over and hits the corner so you're in the running
CHORUS: we run over the corners we float over the map
LEADER: run over the water the drama begins
CHORUS: the drama ends where the drama begins ancient. wives and children grown up men and children grown up men and wives and women children husbands grown up women running the race
4
LEADER: grown up men and women children run the race the old rock drama rocking the run
CHORUS: clocks the run
LEADER: running fast
CHORUS: clocking the run
LEADER: running the turn
CHORUS: and around the turn
LEADER: turning the bum rock out of the turn
CHORUS: opens the stretch running the world
LEADER: around the world a single solo ancient modern fat and thin running trick
CHORUS: we run to lose our paunches
LEADER: an ancient Indian running trick?
CHORUS: we run to lose our paunches no mystery I know of stub a toe
LEADER: you stub a toe no mystery I know of I run to lose my paunch I lost it somewhere along the way
5
CHORUS: I lost my paunch along the run over land, sea, mountains down the hill ran into you
LEADER: ran into me along the way
CHORUS: taught you a dirty trick
LEADER: you ran into my life and taught me and my wife a dirty trick
WOMAN FROM CHORUS: come home you're running running too far from home you taught me this running trick I'm running from you you're running from me
CHORUS: I'm running away we're running away from each other
LEADER: I'm running to lose my paunch
WOMAN: I'm running, just running and now I want to stop
CHORUS: I'm stopping, I'm stopping I taught you the trick I stop.
LEADER: I'm stopping only my heart is beating my heart runs on
6
CHORUS: that is the trick you stop running and your heart runs on
LEADER: Dear, come here.
WOMAN: I'm here, we're here bump bump bump so that's the trick
you run
CHORUS: we run
LEADER: we ran
WOMAN: we run
CHORUS: bump bump bump the heart on the wall doesn’t stop bumping unless it falls
WOMAN: an ancient old forbidden trick the heart in the wall doesn’t stop bumping unless it falls
LEADER: I lose my paunch I stop running my heart keeps bumping fat to thin fast & skinny I'm all by myself I've run away from you
WOMAN: out of the cave you run the house, the road away out of the car you just kept on running
7
CHORUS: we ran away from you
LEADER: my heart keeps running away from me I keep after it but now I'm still I just sit here tired of work pick up this rock and drop it
CHORUS: drop drop drop on by
LEADER: drop on by
WOMAN: drop on in
LEADER: drop back in
CHORUS: see you, neighbor
LEADER: that's a favor
WOMAN: bring the pie
LEADER: rock on by
CHORUS: we're the neighbors by a by
LEADER: rock on by
WOMAN: bake that pie
LEADER: apple pie
CHORUS: we're the neighbors
8
LEADER: come on by
WOMAN: by & by
LEADER: we're home from running now we sit and eat our pie
CHORUS: now we sit and eat our pie then we'll run then we'll run
LEADER: but now we sit and eat our pie
WOMAN: apple, apple, apple pie.
END
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Plays by Larry Goodell
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Boren & Constance Ash, Ned Sublette directing 21Oct1975The Football Game, a Responsive Reading, premiered at the Armory for the Arts,
Santa Fe, impromptu, presented at the Vortex Theater 24Oct1975A Fifth Apart, premiered at the Vortex Theater
with Ned Sublette & the author 1976Rabbit Stew, performed at the Armory for the Arts, “Words” program, Santa Fe 1976
Later Plays
Verging on Female Territory 25Aug1976(?)Billy the Kid in Bed with His Stereotype, a Radio Play 25Aug1977
premiered on KUNM-FM, along with Body Palace (Radio Premiere), Radio Perfomance Project 1977 11October1977
Presentation of the Goddess, for Ned Sublette Jan1977Jock Art, a Dance Play 1977Julia Child Taoist Incarnate, premiered, “Words” program, Santa Fe Jan1979
Pecos Bill, a “full length” Radio or Read Play, presented at KUNM-FM as part of NedSublette’s Radio Performance Project 1979 1979
Each Other, a Duo, presented on KUNM-FM by Marilyn Pittman & Larry Goodell,also at the Zocalo Theater in Bernalillo, New Mexico, by Marcia Latham& the author Feb-Mar1980
In Our One Way, a Radio Play for Two Men with Low Voices 23Jun1980Down in Jujitsu Land 21Jul1980The Fairy Baboons 9Dec(#2)1981Old Indian Trick, a Play for Leader and Chorus 1982
Spirit Talk, premiered at Coronado State Monument (Kuaua), Bernalillo, NewMexico, with Bill Pearlman & the author 12May1994
The Disappearing Corpse, a Play To Be Read Aloud(for Sara Kane) 2002
OLD INDIANTRICK
a Play for Leader and Chorus
Larry Goodell2012