A Change of Heart

By Theodora Oniceanu

My 2022 work for BSB Project is starting the new 2023 year with "Bus Station Bookmarks" which wishes to put people to a test of choices they make all meant to favour their development in a good state of mind and, why not, influence the undertakes they plan or to which feel attracted for their well-being to happen honestly without denying anyone the right to express their thoughts or speak out their minds. This is a playwright titled "A Change of Heart", a humorous piece, a play where you'll hopefully find all those bad fantasies acting to fancy your heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theodora Oniceanu
• Release date: Apr 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215214534

Theodora Oniceanu

Theodora Oniceanu (born Lacatis) lives in a small town named Targu-Mures, situated close to the heart of Transylvania, Romania with her husband, her son and their cat. She followed the classes at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Petru Maior Transylvania and the ones on Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Spiru Haret, Bucharest. She is passionate about arts and crafts, she also loves sports, travelling and photography, enjoys good quality music and, of course, books. She's been writing since age nine, but with interruptions. Now she feels that she has the necessary time to dedicate good part of her life to writing.

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Table of Contents

Characters List

A Change of Heart

Act 1, Scene 1

Act I, Scene 2

Act I, Scene 3

Act II, Scene 1

Act II, Scene 2

Act II, Scene 3

Act III, Scene 1

Act III, Scene 2

Act III, Scene 3

Characters List

Characters:

The King

The Queen

Spanal Dragomew, The King's Valet

Poopicon, the Press Attendant

The Priest

The Joker

The Witch

The Vodoo Sorcerer

The Bastard

Jacques Use, the Queen's scout

Mr. Murderer

The Fool

Sorcerers and Fools

Dancers and Nobles

The play may start with people talking about the scenes they must play, some are already dressed-up as the characters they are about to play and ask for permission to set on the cameras that will record their chosen bit.

We are seeing a king playing the director and a director getting mad at another king. The Queen walks proudly and watches down on her subjects with superior sever dignity. The priest has his enlightened way of making an entrance. He is visibile mostly through his silent light-spotted appearance. Then you have the Joker who picks one king at a time to entertain. The multitudine of kings salute each other.

A Voodoo sorcerer appears. He plays his role in a sad looking way.

Other characters may walk proudly among people - butlers, valets, nobles and a few ordinary people. The other sorcerers join their leader for a strange tribal dance that looks a little grotesque and menacing.

Lights get turned off as the director takes his well deserved role and place on the set. Noir.

(_we may hear bodies hitting the floor ground în the dark_)

A Change of Heart

Act 1, Scene 1

The stage is immersed in the thickest noir, illuminated only on the deepest spot, close to the right inner corner where we can vaguely see a few silhouettes.

It's the entire court gathered and grouped around the King and Queen. They all watch the Joker and his group of clowns and laugh. Soon music starts being played. Shortly after, the king's valet, Mr. Spanal Dragomew, enters the stage with Salvin, his guide through the forests.

They are hasting inside while the chief-clown presents a sheep eating the big bad Wolf.

They have special news to deliver to the king but stop in awe at the sight of the famished wild sheep.

Soon everybody turns their eyes back to the show forgetting Spanal's shocking entrance.

In between two clowns and a joker show a complex musical moment introduces a captivating ballet followed by the draw of the court to a dance. Spanal Dragomew finds