Romeo's Soliloquy
A line of men is walking toward BOY-DRESSED-AS-JULIET in a crowded place. They stop in front of "JULIET."
MAX: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
JOHNNY: It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
(Girls enter with paper fans, circling the other side of "JULIET" and “swooning”)
JENNIFER: Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
SARA CASTRO: Who is already sick and pale with grief,
BoyNATASHYA FRIEND 1: That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
BoyNF #2: Be not her maid, since she is envious;
GIRL: (Gossiping to the LIANNA) Her vestal livery is but sick and green
LIANNA: (Gossiping back) And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
BRANDON: It is my lady
SARAH’S FRIEND #1: O, it is my love!
JOANNA: (gossiping to CLAIRE) O, that she knew she were!
CLAIRE: (gossiping back) She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
(SF) #5: Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
SARAH B.: What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
NATASHYA: (Sarcastically) The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
MAX: As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
MANDY: Would through the airy region stream so bright
WHITNEY: (Sarcastically) That birds would sing and think it were not night.
JANELLE: See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
JOHN K.: O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
(Pause)
EVERYONE: Touch her cheek!
Everyone hoists "JULIET" up on their shoulders as she exclaims, “AY ME!”
End Scene.
