THE USURPING OF REFINEMENT
A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
IGOR BRANCO
Characters:
THE COUNSELOR
THE TROLL COURT
LADY MARIE INUTILIÆ
BOBIGI SINIBALTA
ACT I, SCENE SOLE
[turns on all the lights so we can watch it die The Counselor. After wishing bloody auspices three times, enters he.]
THE COUNSELOR: Stand up, I say! Forsooth; Illion calls! Thereby we may collect the deeds that that weary troll court has weaved upon us and our mares; our fair ladies... So many faces, yet none so real as the maidenmare of Inutility. Forsooth; the troll court spokes so on.
[enter the Troll Court, highly spoken, bewitted, specialists upfront, adepts right behind them, followed by chastised apprentices]:
THE TROLL COURT: We come for our mighty day-lord Sinibalta that wishes to purge all light. In fact, he wishes not to see, nor hear, neither wants he to speak about light mares walking around, stumbling over THE COURT or even mocking them with their charmingly over done womanry. In fact, the dowry of a mighty maidenmare such as Marie Inutiliæ might unmistify all that is unmistakably courtly about our conundrum. This matter must be swiftly resolved with great concern.
THE COUNSELOR: Speak, knave! Thy court grants us the economical ways to lend our women's ways to go around. What say you in your defense?
THE TROLL COURT: We need not defend ourselves. We will not harm commoners as per the very treaty that lends us the luxury of this conversation. Boogeymen and troll alike live as if the üntermensch were honorable. Thou art nothing but turtle tiger dung pile, yet we speak. Cordially we ask for that thou women be driven way, specially thy Lady Almighty Marie Inutiliæ the Bright, bright as our very sun which offends Bobigi Sinibalta profoundly.
THE COUNSELOR: I am but the very councilman, a secretary, holder of secrets - not a knave on least, hellas! - and in such windy days I speak not for the most least-common Marie Inutiliæ.
THE TROLL COURT: Our faces are tired of yer women's ways, that's all. Is this still solvable by classical means?
THE COUNSELOR: I see your lordships lose their grips when the Amazonessence of women is involved, religiously severing the thread of thy prose.
THE TROLL COURT (wandering around, loud cries and noises coming from the lowly warlocks among them): They threat us and abuse us before we even know.
THE COUNSELOR: Might I council thou lots not to ever let it show?
THE TROLL COURT: We don't matter showing. In fact, it is not ever shown nor will it be. Thou laugh at all our words deeply beneath the shades of wind that whistles our shared words of pride, do you not? Thou thinkest of us bitter creatures.
THE COUNSELOR: With all due respect to the treaty that everbinds us, we, Illion, argue that that may be. Forsooth, Love is as blind as Sinibalta wishes to be; soon thy lot might find that out.
THE TROLL COURT: How would that come to be so?
THE COUNSELOR: If ye keep arguing in this non-eliptical discourse which entangles us, we might conclude that we are all lads again. Forsooth, we Illion would offer you a sub-treaty which would teach you the refinement needed to dare a maredevil such as the mighty maidenmare of which we do not dare nor which to pronounce Her Soundly Name again.
THE TROLL COURT: How would that be offered, so that we might stop grinning at our own thoughts, standing alone in laplaces, places not to be?
THE COUNSELOR: The only condition is that thou dare and speak directly with Our Lady Marie Inutiliæ.
THE TROLL COURT (dazed and confused): Utterly confused and eagerly terrified, we accept thy conditions. May we sign this sub-treaty?
THE COUNSELOR: Not before thy lots consults her first wills directly nowhabouts, as Her Name has already been pronounced by us again. Let thy lots commence, shall Thy Ladyship?
[Looking at the brightness untamed in tameful linenwoven dress of milky paths, The Counselor ceases ACT I.]
ACT II, THE PARLOUR WITH RAY AND TEMPERATURE ACROSS HER FACE
MARIE INUTILIÆ: It is said that I would speak in some lordly sense. What say you?
THE TROLL COURT: Such a pretty boast might steal away what our proposition might have been.
MARIE INUTILIÆ: Backstages, back in this parlour, thou art nothing but grey matter, troll and gnapkins alike. Thou slimery thoughts could never.
THE TROLL COURT (to themselves, specially among the specialists): Poor, old, Sinibalta. We might as well be bitter and utter-spoken on women's ways.
MARIE INUTILIÆ: Hellas! What wants thy heap? A lordly woven tale? The warmth of a thousand steadholms? The burning abyss of a gaze interested? Out with it, vile cohort.
THE TROLL COURT: We were about to ought and plead for light so that we may be taken and appease our Bobigi, what we wanted; but we barely got offered a spark. Makes manyselves wonder what are they.
MARIE INUTILIÆ: Thy willesth some more, then?
THE TROLL COURT: That would leave the court twinkling with the starry paths that lead Thou Heavenly Name 'ere.
MARIE INUTILIÆ: Thy want so much and to offer only the coat of a sleeping gaze. Many a specialist, many an adept, an apprentice and bothers-me-not novices; yet thou art fast asleep in yer thoughts. Barely a holistic glimpse.
THE TROLL COURT: Alas, poor, Sinibalta! We plead that your words and wisdom choke us in agony.
[enters Bobigi Sinibalta, pulling along with him the curtains of ACT III THE LAST.]
ACT III THE LAST
[enters Bobigi Sinibalta, and with him comes profoundly confused The Counselor. The court stands silently while Marie Inutiliæ burns the eyebrows of the elements passerby.]
BOBIGI SINIBALTA (warding his eyes from the light slightly): So I have heard that you are the force that traps and covens my brethren when you use them unknowingly.
MARIE INUTILIÆ: I see you know that I am far too kind.
BOBIGI SINIBALTA: That may or may not be. Your counselor taught my kin not to ever let it be shown.
THE COUNSELOR: Many are able to confuse and steal hearts away, m'lady!
MARIE INUTILIÆ: I believe I have said and done all that I have been. There is only one in here, that which has spoken and performed so.
BOBIGI SINIBALTA (starting to weep somehow): One can only wish that that true light was unleashed upon him when he was but a whelp on a puddle of muddark. What about now?
THE TROLL COURT: Day-lord, what say you in our defense? How might we get out of this entanglement of shades?
BOBIGI SINIBALTA: One can only hope for the impossibility that that one's past self was moreover capable of overcoming one's present realities and desires.
THE TROLL COURT: Is it the last, at last? Finally so?
BOBIGI SINIBALTA: It is not to long before we all are made to feel.
THE TROLL COURT: And what course might we take unwillingly now?
BOBIGI SINIBALTA: There is naught I can haul into thy lots earholes.
THE TROLL COURT: How come so that this hath never been since this court hath been formed?
BOBIGI SINIBALTA: Thou hath to comprehend and internalize, much as well as thou Day-lord ponders in the process of succeeding, which is the hardest defiling of logical workings we worked upon over the times and treaties.
THE TROLL COURT: So, we can see clearly that...
MARIE INUTILIÆ: Hellas!, that you can not! That would be light and life. Brightening it up, in reality, you will have to learn.
THE COUNSELOR: Forsooth! Illion, calls: thou wish thou hath known that whenever thou 'ere brighter.
[END OF ACT III, WITH THE COMING AND PASSING OF BOBIGI SINIBALTA AND THE TROLL COURT.]
