Excerpt A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers by J Doherty

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Jessica
Benvolio
Macbeth
Banquo
Angeline
Demetria

Juliets cousin from Denmark- A Capulet.

Romeos cousin from Romeo & Juliet.
A rough kid.
Macbeths mate.
Another of Romeos cousins
A crazy loner kid.

Previous to this scene, Benvolio and Jessica have met. She is an exchange
student. They are crazy for each other. However, Benvolio has not told her he is
Romeos cousin. Macbeth and his friend come across the couple and Macbeth
tells the truth. Angeline, another of Romeos cousins, enters and is furious
with Benvolio. Demetria, the crazy loner, enters and kidnaps Jessica.
SCENE 5- A PARK
JESSICA AND BENVOLIO EXCHANGE AFFECTIONS JESSICA
You have kidnapped my heart;
Hold it tenderly as you might
A new born creature fresh
To this world in fright.
BENVOLIO
Never have I held a heart so tenderly thus,
Until these words spoken between the two of us.
ENTER MACBETH and BANQUO LOOKING BATTERED AND BEATEN. THEY
STUMBLE ACROSS THE COUPLE. BENVOLIO LEAPS UP, STARTLED. JESSICA IS
BEWILDERED AND OUTRAGED BY THE INTERUPTION TO THE WOOING.
MACBETH
How now? How now?
Here is a sight to see!
Banquo, do you
Witness this with me?
BANQUO
Indeed! I am much amused
To see these representatives of
Families whose history is now,
here, sorely abused!
BENVOLIO
Macbeth, I do beseech you, sir, have patience.
Your looks are pale and wild and do import Some
misadventure which, were I to know Of, could
perhaps lend kind some support.
MACBETH
No, no Benvolio, I'll not accept your help!
For it was your avowed nemesis
Teresa Capulet, that she- dog whelp,
Who brought me to a state like this!
JESSICA
How dare you intrude so rudely
On our interlude so crudely!
What is it to you that he and
I share a romantic glance and sigh?
MACBETH

2012 A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers 2nd Revision. John Doherty

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Excerpt A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers by J Doherty

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Me? Personally I don't care at all!

But you set up your families again
For a ghastly and tragic fall;
You must be a little insane!
JESSICA
What can you mean?
You are a stranger to me!
And should know that he
And I are free thus to be.
BANQUO
Considering the Montague/ Capulet union,
That's a brave statement to make!
Such union caused Romeo and Juliet
Their young, unripe lives to take.
JESSICA
But what has this to do with
My love Benvolio and I?
MACBETH
If he has not yet told you,
You will have reason to cry!
JESSICA
Of what does this Macbeth speak?
Benvolio, what is it I do not know?
Please talk to me ,my new love,
My beloved Benvolio Montenegro!
MACBETH
Montenegro!? What name is this you utter?
Is Montenegro some strange change
To your birth given surname, Benvolio?
My, my, now isn't that strange?
For I could have sworn
When last I heard your name
It was Montague...yes that's it...
Montague, the very same!
JESSICA IS MORTIFIED.
MACBETH
Our sincere apologies,
Lady of the House of Capulet,
But such a lie as Benvolio has told
I could not let continue to beguile
and fool your gentle heart...
Come Banquo, let's to our journey home start!
MACBETH AND BANQUO EXIT.
JESSICA REGARDS BENVOLIO WITH STEELY SILENCE
BENVOLIO
My heart wishes to speak its truth,
Yet neither mind nor tongue obey.
Nothing can gently mitigate this.
Forsooth, there is nothing I can say.

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Excerpt A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers by J Doherty

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JESSICA
Can you not deny this charge
From your heart, kind and true?
A Montague you must not be,
For Benvolio, I do love you!
BENVOLIO
By a name I know not how to
Tell thee who I truly am.
Take me as I am before you
A love smitten young man.
JESSICA
O' be some other name!
(Aside)
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
Yet how cruel of Fate that this love arose,
A Capulet and Montague in fair love to meet.
Retain that dear perfection
Which thou owes without that title.
BENVOLIO
I beg of you, plead with all my heart,
Do not forget the sweet love,
On wings, sweeping us away
Like a hurricane at the start,
Love sweet in our souls this day.
ENTER ANGELINE
ANGELINE
What, Benvolio, cousin to me
And poor deceased Romeo,
Spouting such desperate cliche
To woo a Capulet this day?
Macbeth assured me I would not
Believe my eyes to see such sight,
Yet here I find you on your knees
Begging one of the family we fight!
ANGELINE
Arise, Sir Dishcloth, Lord Limp-wrist,
From your humiliating position;
Abandon this forbidden tryst!
Regain your Montague condition!
BENVOLIO
Would it help to quietly venture
That Jessica is not purely Capulet
But one the House of Stochinger
Her Capulet side only recently met?
ANGELINE
Benvolio, have you lost your mind?
You are, as Teresa said, a heartless hind!
But see who approaches rapidly here,
Demetria, the mad woman we all fear!

2012 A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers 2nd Revision. John Doherty

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Excerpt A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers by J Doherty

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ENTER DEMETRIA
DEMETRIA
Here's a pretty sight to see
all huddled together so cozily!
Two Montagues and one of Capulet genes;
I wonder what on earth
All this means.
You can't beat them, join them,
As the old saying goes,
For we all have ten fingers
And as many toes.
But I see you don't like
The truth I speak.
Sometimes the most truth spoken
Is in the words of a freak!
You can't admonish
or take any action against me
Because I'm crazy!
See? So I am free,
To do as I please,
Whenever I choose;
And I choose to seize one of you,
DEMETRIA
One I can use to achieve
My own ends
By demanding ransom money...
Yes, you'll do!
Come with me honey!
DEMETRIA DARTS FORWARD AND GRABS JESSICA.
BENVOLIO AND ANGELINA BOTH SHAPE UP TO FIGHT.
DEMETRIA
There's a pretty picture, one you'd never see in a book.
Capulet loving Montague and Montague, Capulet,
Sadly reminiscent of those tragic fools, your relatives,
The dead and buried Romeo and Juliet!
Don't worry your foolish heads about sweet Jessica here,
I'll make sure I don't hurt her ....much...
There's nothing to fear!

2012 A Pair of Star Crossed Lovers 2nd Revision. John Doherty

Blue Dingo Productions, Adelaide, South Australia.