HAMLIN’S TOWN
Hamlin’s town is located near the south end of Green Pacific Bay folks sometimes call it Pirate Bay, on account of all the goings done by the community fisherman, it is said that a special
breed of people lives there performers of all kinds. At the end of the bay overhanging the cliffs in a little shack lives Mandrake the town physician, a tall giant of a man, he had two sons and
three daughters his wife Isabel was the town's seamstress by night and the head school teacher by day.
SCENE 1 ACT ONE
(All the town people gathered around the little adobe house of Magician Mandrake and his wife Isabel each with a present in their hands)
All the fishermen and the town people gather around the little hut of a house to celebrate the birth of Mrs. Mandrake's sixth child, some drinking homemade ale, others check peaches and
cleaning wild crab apples, for this is a happy occasion Isabel is due to have her six child today, and the town folks are invited to name the baby
( Inside the house lies Isabel on a tiny court, next to her sits her husband Mandrake, a midwife who goes back and forth carrying water from the clay jar and placing it in a basin near Isabel)
The Goblins came down from the hills to witness this special occasion and they brought with them fairy dust the last of the woodland elves.
( Whistling merrily are several Goblins walking in a row, coming towards Mandrake's house, a dressed Goblin with a pointed hat was sitting upon a chair, carried by six other Goblins, in his
hands was a small pouch of fairy dust, a present to give the baby)
It was early in the evening and the party had already begun even though the baby was not due till later at dusk but that did not stop the crowd they all came everyone brought with them gifts
of all kinds, grapes fresh from the vines, pomegranates full and fine, dates rare pears damsons and bilberries a feast of royal eating. The Goblin chief whom they call Safe brought a suckling
pig all stuffed up for the cooking, he even brought his chief cook
( On a makeshift rack lying on its back was a fat sour, joking to each other the goblins laugh and dance as they walk)
( Be careful with this pig now! Shouted Ellsworth, I don't have another roast if this one gets away, laughingly the pig said to Mr. Ellsworth, this is also my present to the child. )
Ellsworth to perform the task of cooking the pig and any other thing that needed cooking. Everyone took their proper places when the band broke into a chorus of Under the Fairy Moon, then
the place lit up like a Christmas tree.
( Two possums Clyde and Clara are having a heated conversation, it’s a boy no it’s girl, what do you know about humans ask Clara, as much as you know said Clyde.
You old fool why did I marry you, such a bonehead, you know why he answered, do you remember my collection of nuts and the jug that was filled with rotten apples, sure you do enough to
have you returning at my door and begging to be my wife. )
At the back of the shed near the stable two possums were busy betting on the outcome of the birth Clyde the older possum said it’s a girl you know how I love girls, silly boy said Clara it’s a
boy everyone knows that her last child was a girl plus the way her tummy is pointed says boys all the way, well said Clyde we will soon see dusk will soon be here, with this she said come lets
head on home.
( In the courtyard a band made up of two cats, Roy and Esther, a rooster named Will, Philip the lazy hound dog, Clarice the monkey, and two over-fed rabbits Steve and Ralph, was setting up
their instruments)
( Two cats played the saxophone, the rooster was the band singer, the hound dog played the drums with its tail, with the monkey on the guitars, and the rabbits brought up the rare with
clarinets and horns)