Pan+and+Echo+1

 Love in Vain

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SCENE 1      NARRATOR: The God of the Wild, Pan, always fell in love with nymphs. So it wasn’t surprising when he tried to woo Echo, a very beautiful chatterbox.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: Hello, Echo. (ROMANTIC SIGH)

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: It’s such a beautiful day! Don’t you think it’s a beautiful day? The moon is out, I mean the sun, and it’s such a clear day with no clouds, except for that one, but it’s so big and fluffy and pretty! There is probably a 1% chance of rain today, more like 0.01!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: Um, Echo?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: What, you think there is a better chance of rain?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: Echo, could you just listen to me and not talk about the rain?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: Well, there’s the snow and the chance of that is less than the rain! But I love playing in the snow; it’s so much more fun than playing in the rain! I wish it would snow today, but I know it’s not going to!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (UNDER HIS BREATH) I hate when she talks nonstop!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (STARTING TO LOSE HIS COOL) Echo, my dear, can I ask you something?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: And...Huh? Oh, yeah, you can.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (STARTING TO GET A LITTLE NERVOUS) Uh, Echo…

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: Yeah?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: I- I- I love you.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (GIGGLY) Oh, how cute! (SERIOUS) Wait, you’re kidding, right?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: No! But, will you marry me?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (IN A SASSY VOICE) Uh, first, I thought you were my friend. And, second, you’re not my type and you’re too ugly for my liking. So, how ‘bout, uhhhh, NO!!!!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">RUNNING SOUND, DISGUSTED NOISE, SNAPPING TWIGS

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (DESPERATELY) Echo, no, no! <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">You don’t understand! Don’t leave me, no, no, no, noooo…

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Echo stays by herself in the woods and tries to forget all that had happened to her, while Pan mourns at the edge of the woods. **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SCENE 2 **   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SLOW WALKING, THUNDER SOUNDS

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ZEUS: Hello, Echo! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: Oh, hello, Lord Zeus!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ZEUS: Echo, you are so beautiful. I’ve been watching you for some time and you would be perfect as one of my wives. Will you marry…   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SUDDEN SILENCE

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ZEUS: (FRANTICALLY) Oh no! ECHO: What is it, Lord Zeus? <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ZEUS: It’s Hera! She has seen me with you. She will be mad that I’m in love with someone other than herself. Quick, Echo! You must get away!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: No, Lord Zeus, she will be mad at you. I’ll distract her with random conversation while you slip away. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SOUND OF PERSON CLIMBING DOWN LADDER, THEN STEAM SOUNDS

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: (ANGRILY) Where is Zeus, Echo? I know he was with you. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: Hello, Lady Hera. Zeus isn’t here right now, as you can see. But I’ve been wondering what it’s like on Olympus. What happens there and what do you talk about..............

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: *mumbling*   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: ENOUGH! I know Zeus was here and you’ve just been distracting me from finding him!!!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: But Lady Hera... <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: Stop it, you talk too much! I must find a suitable punishment for you…hmmm…Oh, I know! You shall only be able to repeat the words of others.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">MAGICAL SOUND   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: There! Now you shall only speak the words of others.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (SADLY) Speak the words of others. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: That’s what you get for trying to steal Zeus from me!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: That’s what you get for trying to steal Zeus from me! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: Stop it!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: Stop it! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERA: (ANNOYED GRUNT)

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (ANNOYED GRUNT)   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SCENE 3 ** <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Some time went by and Echo had to live with her punishment. One day she noticed the most handsome man in the world, Narcissus, and instantly fell in love with him. In a trance, she did not notice him walk away. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (THINKING) Oh, at least I can talk in my head. Where is Narcissus?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">LOOKING SOUND: Cartoonish head sweep   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (THINKING DREAMILY) Oh there he is, hunting in the woods! I’ll just catch up with him.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">RUNNING SOUND   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Where is some water? I’m so thirsty!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Narcissus kept looking for some water while Echo eagerly tried to get his attention. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: (VAINLY) Such a beautiful person like me deserves to drink when he is thirsty!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Ah! Water at last! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">FAST FOOTSTEPS AND GASP

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SCENE 4 **   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Oh my! Whose beautiful face do I have the pleasure of looking at?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Narcissus did not know, but the reflection in the water was his own. He leaned in closer to get a better look. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Whose dreamy and mysterious eyes am I looking into?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: He leaned in farther. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Whose wavy and fair hair is this? Whose bright and dazzling smile? Whose-

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: At this point, Narcissus had leaned in so far that he fell headfirst into the water. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">BIG SPLASH AND SPITTING OUT WATER SOUND

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Stranger, where are you? Where are you? <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: He searched, but after a while he became tired and stopped for another drink.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Oh, there you are! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">STROKING WATER SOUND AND DEEP SIGH

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: I love you. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Yes! Echo thought. She had been waiting for so long and now was her chance. She stepped out from the bushes. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: I love you. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: But it was hopeless. Narcissus was so lost in his own reflection that he did not see or hear the pretty nymph in front of him. **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SCENE 5 **   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Oh, my dear stranger, you are beautiful! I could live on just your beauty!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Unfortunately, Narcissus could not, and after many days and nights, he felt hollow from hunger. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: I feel odd… my stomach feels strange, and my mouth is slightly dry. Still, it probably isn’t important.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: And so because he completely forgot about himself, Narcissus slowly faded away, and his last words were spoken to Hermes, the messenger god:   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERMES: (TRIUMPHANTLY) I, Hermes, am ready to lead you to the Underworld now!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARCISSUS: Lord Hermes, if you get a chance, would you tell the stranger that I love him? <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HERMES: (GENTLY) I don’t need to, he already knows.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">MUSIC: Soft, sweet, and sad. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: A beautiful flower popped up where Narcissus had been sitting. It was as gorgeous as the man himself. Echo had watched Narcissus’s long fast, and his death behind the bushes. Now, as his body slowly faded, she slowly glided out of the background of the woods towards the spot where he had sat. For a minute, she was speechless in shock.

S <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">UDDEN SILENCE, SOBBING   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: Oh, oh, noooo! Noooo, my beloved! Urgh! My accursed lips, why can’t you move! Oh, my darling, no, noo! Curse you, Hera! Oh, I wish I could mourn aloud for my beloved. I wish the whole world could feel my grief! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SOBBING SOUND

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: For days, Echo merely sat lonesome by herself, cradling the Narcissus flower in her arms. Soon, tears stained permanently on her face. She is so full of sorrow for Narcissus, like the many others that loved him that she forgets to eat. Her last thoughts were: <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO: (THINKING) Oh, my dear Narcissus, I shall be reunited with you at last! I am ready, Lord Hermes!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">MUSIC: Soft, sweet and sad   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> **<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SCENE 6 ** <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: Pan just happened to walk by and found Echo dying by the river. He rushed to her side immediately. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (DESPERATELY) No, Echo! Please don’t die! Please!

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO’S VOICE: (FADING) Please. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: Echo! Is that you? Are you there?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">ECHO’S VOICE: FADING) There.   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">OTHER NYMPHS: Her voice! It remains, but her body remains with Narcissus.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: I may not be able to be with her but we shall sing forever. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">HOOF BEATS, TOOTS ON A PIPE.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: Echo, you are finally listening to me! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">OTHER NYMTHS: Yes now she listens to all of us.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SLOW HOOF BEATS AND CRACKING TWIGS   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">NARRATOR: As Pan walked away though, he realized that his beloved Echo was gone forever and he began to cry.

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">SCENE 7 **   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (MOURNFULLY) No! My beautiful Echo is gone! Why?! Why?! She was going to be the most fair of all the nymphs and, most importantly, all mine! Why?! She would have loved me so much! Of course, after she got over the ugly thing. But doesn’t everyone always say it’s what’s inside that counts? She would have realized that! Eventually…

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">OTHER NYMPHS: (SUPPORTIVE) Oh come on, Pan! Shake it off! Play your pipes! Forget all about that chatterbox of a nymph! She wasn’t right for you anyway! There are so many more nymphs in the forest! Especially this forest…   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">GIRL NYMPHS GIGGLE

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: She’s gone though! She’s gone and I’ll never see her again! She’s gone all because of that Narcissus! That guy! I can’t stand him! Only cares about himself! Meanwhile, I cared about other people. Especially…Echo!!! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">BREAKS INTO TEARS

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">OTHER NYMPHS: Forget about Echo and Narcissus! Get on with your life! Play your music! Enjoy nature! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (MOURNFULLY) I can’t! I can’t forget about how her hair flowed in the breeze, how her cute little nose moved when she talked. I can’t forget how her completely meaningless words went perfectly with her flawless voice. I can’t forget how she – wait, who’s that!?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">OTHER NYMPHS: (JEALOUSLY) Oh, you mean, Syrinx. That completely beautiful, but stupid excuse of a nymph! The little thing can’t stand to have anything ugly within 10 yards of her! She never does anything; she just gets her dad, the river god, to do it for her! Why would you even glance at a nymph like that?! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (VOICE SIMILAR TO A TRANCE) What...What...Wait, did you say something? Sorry, I was just looking at…Did you say her name was Syrinx?...Wow…What a beautiful name…She’s so pretty…I’ve got to go meet her…

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">OTHER NYMPHS: (FRANTIC) Wait, Pan! What about Echo? Remember the sadness, the crying, the “Why?! Why?!”   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">PAN: (CONFUSED) Echo? Echo who?

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