February 6 Play: THE SKY SHOW

37: THE SKY SHOW - by Ed Valentine
© February 6, 2010 * ed@edvalentine.com

LIGHTS UP: YOU SIT IN THE PLANETARIUM. THE LIGHTS GO DOWN.

VOICE:
Please take your seats as we take you on an amazing journey through the known universe.

(MUSIC.)

The sky is filled with stars.

(STARS COME OUT.)

And the stars are just gas. They don’t twinkle. You can’t wish on them. Their twinkling is an illusion.

(WE DRAW CLOSER TO THE STARS.)

In fact, they themselves may be an illusion.

(A COMET BLAZES BY. SOUND OF WIND.)

Some of them are dead. Some of them are dead, and we don’t know it. We do not know what we see.

(THE STARS TURN COLD AND BLUE. WE START TO PULL AWAY FROM THEM INTO THE BLACKNESS OF THE SKY.)

And cannot trust our eyes. This is why science is useless. Because no one knows anything. Yeah, I miss the days I could believe in twinkling, too – or the days when I could believe in them as wishing stars.

(THE STARS ARE VERY FAR AWAY.)

But not anymore. Not anymore.

(CONSTELLATIONS APPEAR. A SOUND OF WIND, THE CONSTELLATIONS BLOW AWAY ONE BY ONE.)

The world has no more room for dreamers, and wishers, and wishing stars.

(WE STOP MOVING OUT, AND MOVE TOWARDS THE STARSS.)

But – still. I wish on them. I do. I do.

(WE MOVE IN.)

Maybe you can wish on one, too.

(MOVE IN.)

Maybe this one.

(SOMEONE POINTS AT ONE PARTICULAR STAR WITH A RED LASER POINTER.)

Or pick one you like, really. Any one will do.

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There. That one.

Thank you for coming to the sky show. And please exit to the left.

(LIGHTS RISE ON AUDIENCE.)

END OF PLAY.