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Location/ Setting: Europe, country, woods, castle
Characters: (main) Beauty, Beast
(supporting) Father, six brothers, and six sisters
Conflict/Tension/Emotion: Beauty leaving her family to go sacrifice herself to the Beast, Beauty realizing that she truly loves the Beast
Costume/Dress: Beauty: will be dressed very simple, will be wearing a plain dress that is worn. It will be blue, but a faded blue, something that looks like it has been worn for a long time.
Beast: throughout the whole time as a Beast, he will only be wearing brown pants that are worn and ripped, and when he turns into a prince/human, he will be wearing royal blue pants with a crisp white top.
Time Period/Law/Politics/Government: 1700s
Color/ Light/Mood/Temperature: will start very bright but quickly turn orange/red to represent the fire that destroyed their home. The lighting will stay sad colors like light blue and grays, and at the end when she sees the Beast laying dead, the stage will be black with only a spotlight on him and her, and then once he comes back to life, the lighting will change to a yellow like the sun is shinning down on them.

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"(beat 1: provide information) Once upon a time, I lived in a huge house with my father, 6 brothers, 5 sisters, and we got everything we wanted "

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(beat 2: tragedy struck my family); however, soon that all change when my father’s ships started to get taken by pirates and crashing at sea. My father only had one ship left that he was waiting to come back to port, but he received word that the ship was lost. Soon after that, our house caught fire burning everything that we owned, leaving us with nothing forcing us to move miles and miles away from town in the middle of the woods.

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At first, I was sad about our house being burned down, (beat 3: Knew I had to be brave) but I knew that I had to be brave for my dad and help anyway I could, which made my sisters angry because I wasn’t sulking around  like them; however, they never seemed to like me due to people thinking I was the most beautiful of the sisters, which lead to everyone calling me Beauty.

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After two years of my brothers working in the fields and my sisters and I working as servant, our dad told us that he heard his ship that was lost appeared in port filled with rich cargo (beat 4: We had hope). My sisters were the first ones jumping up and down talking about all the dresses they were doing to get, and you could see on my father’s face a sigh of relief knowing that all was going to be okay.

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(beat 5: the mood was so different now, full of happiness) Father set out at the beginning of winter, but before he left he asked what we wanted him to bring back for us. As I listened to my siblings say multiple things, when it was my turn, I told him I just wanted him to come home safely. My father got off his horse and kneeled in front of me and told me that he wanted to bring me something back, so what would I like. I looked up with a smile on my face and told my father I wanted a rose. He gave me a kiss on the cheek and said, “A rose it is for my Beauty.”

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Father mounted his horse and rode off into the woods while we all waved goodbye. (beat 6: afraid)

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(beat 7:shattering news) Father returned almost two months later with only the rose that I had asked for, which led to us finding out that his former partners took the cargo from his ship because they thought he was dead, and that while on his way home the weather go so bad he had couldn’t see the path home, when all of a sudden he came upon a castle where the sun shined, birds sang, and flowers bloomed, which was strange because it was the middle of winter, but then he saw a rose bush and picked one off for me; however, then was frightened by a Beast that stood behind him. The Beast was angry at my father for taking a rose, and my father said he told the Beast he took the rose for his daughter, yet the Beast didn’t care and told the old man that “he had one month to bring back one of his daughters who willingly wanted to come, or come back by himself….” ,

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(beat 8:courage) but before my father could finish his sentence, I stood up and said I would go because it was my fault I asked for the rose.

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(beat 9: sadness) The day came when my father and I left for the castle, and I watched my house get smaller and smaller as we rode away.

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(beat 10: taken back) When we arrived at the castle, I saw the beauty my father describes to us, and tried to put on a brave face so my father wouldn’t see my fear. My father took me to the room where he had stayed before, and shortly after we would here the Beast coming up the stairs and as he turned into the room,

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(beat 11: surprised) the first thing I notice was his beautiful blue eyes. I then saw he had many animal characteristics like hair all over his body and paws for hand and feet, but still resembled a human making me not fear him as much. He told my father he had to leave first thing in the morning, and as I watched him leave I wondered if I would see my father again.

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(beat 12: confused) My first night in the castle, I dreamed about a prince, who I might add was gorgeous, and he told me don’t be so quick to judge based on appearances, and at first, I wondered if he was a prisoner here like me and I need to save him? But, overtime I told myself that it was just dreams; however, I kept having dreams about him.

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(beat 13: shocked) but before leaving would asked me to marry him. I can remember the first night he asked me, I was so scared to say no and make him angry, yet only quite sad when I said no

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(beat 14: hopeful) One night at dinner we were talking, but he could tell I wasn’t myself, so he asked me what was wrong. I told him I wanted to see my family one last time. He looked at me with the saddest eyes and said,

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(beat 15: sadness) “Do you hate me that much that you want to leave?

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(beat 16: reassurance) I quickly moved closer to him grabbing his paws and looking into his blue eyes and said, “I do not hate you at all! I have really enjoyed being here, I just miss my father.”

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(beat 17: conflicted) I found myself thinking of the castle more and more every day, and how I was missed the Beast. One night, my dad sat beside me and I told him about the dreams that I was having about the prince. He told me to follow my heart and no matter what he loved me. It was time to say bye to my family, but I didn’t have the courage to say it, so I told myself I would the next day; however,

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(beat 18: scared) that night I had a nightmare about the Beast dying because I broke my promise about coming home. When I woke up the next morning, fearing my nightmare was true I told my family goodbye

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(beat 19: anxious) I started running around the castle yelling out for him, but there was no respond. I ran to the garden, which is where my nightmare took place, to find him near the rose bushes, and at that point I begin to cry in fear that the person I love the most in this world was gone because I couldn’t keep my promise to him.

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(beat 20: guilty) Holding his head in my lap, while telling him how I was sorry for breaking my promise then kissed his lips so softly, whispering I love you. Tears streamed down my face as I held him tight,

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beat 21: shocked) when suddenly, I heard, “I love you too.” I wiped my eyes only to find the prince from my dreams sitting in front of me

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(beat 22: happiness) As I stood up, he kneeled on one knee and asked me to marry him.

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(beat 23: sense of peace) As I sit here in the garden watching my husband, Mr. James Dansby Swanson, play baseball with our boys,

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(beat 24: joy) I can’t help but smile for asking my dad for a rose 7 years ago.