The Play.
A Neon Genesis Evangelion Fanfic
By Chenalos
Don't Recognize
Chenalos@aol.com
website: RIP
I apologize for the lateness of this release. I've been busy.
I also apologize to all my editors, and people who should have
gotten this beforehand. I didn't want to depress anybody, so
I gave this a shot unedited. Bus, Shinji 10oK, Dog, Ted,
KoalaKiller; send me comments and they shall be considered.
Brought to you by 14 Rivers Productions
-----------------------------------------------
Scene 2. the same theatre, re-oriented
(
The traveler, and all other stage right curtains, save the house
curtain hang in the middle of the stage.
Stage left is simply the stage, effectively moved offstage left.
one of the sofas is now cut in half by the stage left curtain.
Stage right is now the off-stage right portion of the back stage.
There is an exit door on the wall at the furthest point downstage right
weighted pulleys line the far-stage right wall, with many painted
flats leaning up against any wall-space that isn't already occupied by
pulleys. There is an old Steinway Piano collecting dust stage right
of the double-door exit on the upstage wall, the keys pointing to
stage right. Corresponding to the re-orientation of the stage, The
director is now seated audience-right of his previous seat.
The Boy is seated at a table directly downstage of the piano
Asuka, Rei and Shinji move from offstage left past the traveler, and
enter the backstage area.
)
Boy:(to the children) Hi, guys how's it going?
Shinji:(taking a seat at the table) We're fine now that you're here.
Boy: Well, I'm flattered.
Asuka: You need to tell us something, buddy.
Boy: What's that?
Asuka: What's it like out there?
Boy: What do you mean out there?
Rei:(taking a seat at the piano) Just beyond this door.
Boy: Ohh, I get it. Beyond this door there is a passage.
Shinji: And at the end of the passage?
Boy: There's more rooms, more passages and stairs.
Asuka: Where's the way out?
Boy: That's not your line! Estelle isn't even in the play yet.
Asuka: What are you talking about?
Boy: Well? Aren't we rehearsing lines? Garcin has just been put
in his room, and he starts asking me about Hell. By the way,
Shinji, I'm glad to see you got rid of the stutter.
Asuka: He didn't! he's still the same stammering moron! We're
being serious, here.
Rei: This is not earth. We are all dead. (She begins to play
Moonlight sonata)
Boy: I know.
Shinji: You know?
Boy: Yeah. I'm the valet, I brought you into your second empire
drawing room one at a time, and all of you have to live out hell with
just each other forever.
Asuka: We're not talking about the...Ayanami!
Rei: What?
Asuka: Don't you know anything cheerier?
Rei: How do you mean?
Asuka: You know. Some type of music that doesn't make me want to
drown myself. Beethoven was all death, war, and gloom. Play something
else.
Rei: Very well (begins to play the theme from "Love Story")
Asuka: Not good enough.
(Rei begins to play "O vos omnes")
Asuka: Listen! Play something by Janis Joplin. Ok?
Rei:(while playing) Sittin' down by my window, ohh, watchin' the rain.
I was just sittin' down by my window, and all around I felt it
but all I could see was the rain. That's when it took hold of me,
baby, it felt to me; cold and hard, ohh, like a ball and chain.
Asuka: OK, stop! (turns to the boy) Now how does wondergirl even
know who Janis Joplin is?
Boy: She's a bright enough girl. I know who Janis is, but nothing
beats her original live performances, so sorry Rei.
Rei: What for?
Shinji: Where did you learn how to play piano, Rei?
Rei: I never did.
Asuka: There! You see? Not only does she know Janis Joplin, She's
also doing the impossible.
Boy: Well if it were impossible, then she wouldn't be doing it, would
she?
Shinji: Hey, could I just ask something.
Boy: What Shinji?
Shinji: Well, what's beyond that door?
Boy:(pauses) We've been over this already.
Asuka:(Grabs him by the collar) Listen! I'm done with games. Forget
the play, forget Janis Joplin. You must be the gatekeeper, as you
can open the doors. I've solved your puzzle, so let me out. Get me
out of this theatre.
Boy: What are you talking about?
(She slaps him)
Asuka: Demon! You can't keep me in Hell. I'll burn it to the ground!
(she sees the keys around his neck) What would these be?
Boy: Guys! Help me out here
Shinji: But...
Boy: What? You don't believe her do you?
Rei: Yes we do.
Asuka: We've all figured it out, so now we're all leaving.
(grabs Asuka's dress and throws her to the ground, she does not take
the keys with her when she falls)
Boy: No, I'll keep you here as long as I want you here.
Asuka: What the hell do you think you're doing?
Boy: I'm showing you what you really deserve (he jumps on top of her
and grabs her breasts)
Asuka:(Screaming) You pervert! Who do you think you-(a red spotlight
beams down on them, Asuka begins to scream) AAAAAh! Turn it off! Turn
it off!
Boy: Hellfire, Asuka, that's what you deserve. You have a heart of
fire. So fire is what you will have.
Asuka: NO! It's burning me! Turn it off.
Boy: No! You violated others in life, so you deserve to violated,
You burned others with your heart, so your heart of fire should consume
you for all time. You know that's the truth. You know you deserve
the fieriest pit in hell, so listen to me know. Asuka, I am the reason
you did not. If it weren't for me I assure you, you would have seen
your flesh feeding an eternal flame.
(the red light cuts off, he lifts his hands from her)
But because of me, you only have to show me your acting finesse. So,
break a leg. (he gets up, and moves to the piano Asuka goes to
the main stage and collapses on her sofa.) Rei.
Rei: Yes?
Boy: Do you know why you're here?
Rei: My heart is not one of fire. Mine is one of flesh.
Boy:(leans on the upstage side of the piano)Yours WAS one of flesh
that's true. (he begins to tap notes on the keyboard)But that flesh
was not from God, but from man. You were made by the hands of man.
Rei: That is true.
Boy: Then I suppose man wanted you but god didn't, that must be why
you are here.
Rei: No, If God did not want me to exist then I would not exist.
Boy: Rei, You are very intelligent. You can understand a fraction of
divinity. Far more than most. If God did want you to exist, why are
you here?
Rei: I did not pass judgement on myself. I cannot say.
Boy: Then let me show you. (He brushes his hand through her hair. A
blue spotlight shines down on them)
Rei: (Balls up)I...I'm so cold.
Boy: That's right Rei, Coldly unhuman. There isn't even enough
humanity in you to save you, only enough to condemn you. You weren't
given much of a soul to begin with, and you hardly did anything with
the one you had, from nothing you came and you wanted to return to nothing,
so you gave others nothing to remember. Emotionless, heartless, cold,
As icy as Asuka is ignited. You're fate should have been to tremble, naked
in the tundra of your own soul. But, because of me (He touches her
shoulder, the light turns off) You don't have to worry about that. I
only want to act along side of you, and see if you can find that
warm spot you make, inside that shell, that body others made for you.
(Pause) Tell the director we'll be ready soon.
(Rei pauses, before getting up and moving stage left)
Rei:(shaken, seeming distant) We'll be ready shortly.
Director: Well it's about time. Shinji?
Shinji: I'm coming.
Boy:(Stopping him, calling to the director) Not just yet. Give me five
more minutes.
Director: Well, OK.
Shinji: No! I'm ready now.
Boy: No you're not, you're just doing as you always do. You're doing
nothing, while other people tell you what to do. You're no better than
Rei.
Shinji: So what? I don't care why I'm here. I'm just here, and that's
it.
Boy:(Slaps his head) Start caring! Start being concerned! Start pissing
yourself! You've been condemned, Shinji. And yet here you are, as
always, doing what? What I want, what the director wants, what Asuka
wants, and you're always hesitant. Do you know why Shinji? (Pause)
(The Boy Pushes Shinji. Dim gray spotlight appears from above, all other
lights go out Shinji alone in the light)
Boy's voice(different than before, booming and threatening): This is your
free will, Shinji.(pause)
Shinji: Wait. No! What is this? Asuka? Rei?
(all following voices are heard Distant and booming as the boy's was)
Rei's voice: Please, Do not move.
Asuka's voice: Stay put, idiot.
Shinji(reacts, as with all proceeding voices): No! Why?
Misato's voice: Because we will harm you.
Ritsuko's voice: We will destroy you.
Shinji: Why do you want to destroy me?
Fiyutsuki's voice: Your free will is dangerous.
Shinji: Maybe so, but it's my will.
Gendo's voice: Incorrect.
Shinji: Father!
Gendo's voice: Not your will, but mine be done. You must submit. You must
surrender your free will, if you want to survive. Stay in place.
Shinji: No! I can't! I hate this place! Someone help! Anybody get me out!
20+ voices:(starting slow, and soft, then rising to a roar) Stay, Stay, Stay
Stay, (Continuing)
Shinji: No! Shut up! Dammit! Shut up! Shut up! Have mercy, I'm
begging you! Someone please get me out! Bastards! Die, All of you, every
last one, die, every one, everything! Damn you all! Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up! Get me out of here! Someone help me!
(The boy grabs Shinji and rips him out of the dim light. At that moment
blackout and silence. Pause.)
(lights come up, Breaking abruptly in several different spots, before
illuminating the whole stage, much like a neon light flicker on effect.
The boy has grabbed Shinji an is staring him straight in the face)
The boy: When Shinji did you ever decide to get (pauses) the hell out of
there?
(Shinji is silent)
The boy: Get on stage. (moves to table, sits)
Shinji:(Gets up slowly, walks to curtain stops, and turns back) If what your
saying is true, how we deserved damnation, then why this why were we spared
that hell to suffer this one?
The boy: Because, Shinji...You are a savoir. So is Asuka, and Rei. You
sacrificed yourselves to save others. Whether you were saviors because of
personal arrogance, total inhuman submission, or utilitarian cowardice, a
savior is what you are, and no God that lives in righteousness could
completely punish one so like his chosen.
(Shinji Turns, back to the stage, then turns back)
Shinji: You're the devil himself.
(the boy Smiles)
(Lights go down. End of Scene 2)
Notes:
Neon Genesis Evangelion is owned by Gainax.
"No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre, Vintage International Version, October
1989 (c) 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 201 East 50th Street, New York,
New York, 10022. All rights reserved.
Being in college will strip your time for anything else to absolutely nil.
(Well, being in any college other than BACL, the drink till you drop, zero
study capital of the world that is) I want You all to know I ain't forgot
any of you readers, I just neglected the crap out of ya! I hope for better
behavior from now on, fic-wise, stay on my ass about it. I WILL finish
this play.
Thanks to the usual set of thugs, Even though we kinda lost touch recently.
But hey, that means we're all getting out a little more! ^_^
Chenalos@aol.com
This story (C) Chenalos
A Neon Genesis Evangelion Fanfic
By Chenalos
Don't Recognize
Chenalos@aol.com
website: RIP
I apologize for the lateness of this release. I've been busy.
I also apologize to all my editors, and people who should have
gotten this beforehand. I didn't want to depress anybody, so
I gave this a shot unedited. Bus, Shinji 10oK, Dog, Ted,
KoalaKiller; send me comments and they shall be considered.
Brought to you by 14 Rivers Productions
-----------------------------------------------
Scene 2. the same theatre, re-oriented
(
The traveler, and all other stage right curtains, save the house
curtain hang in the middle of the stage.
Stage left is simply the stage, effectively moved offstage left.
one of the sofas is now cut in half by the stage left curtain.
Stage right is now the off-stage right portion of the back stage.
There is an exit door on the wall at the furthest point downstage right
weighted pulleys line the far-stage right wall, with many painted
flats leaning up against any wall-space that isn't already occupied by
pulleys. There is an old Steinway Piano collecting dust stage right
of the double-door exit on the upstage wall, the keys pointing to
stage right. Corresponding to the re-orientation of the stage, The
director is now seated audience-right of his previous seat.
The Boy is seated at a table directly downstage of the piano
Asuka, Rei and Shinji move from offstage left past the traveler, and
enter the backstage area.
)
Boy:(to the children) Hi, guys how's it going?
Shinji:(taking a seat at the table) We're fine now that you're here.
Boy: Well, I'm flattered.
Asuka: You need to tell us something, buddy.
Boy: What's that?
Asuka: What's it like out there?
Boy: What do you mean out there?
Rei:(taking a seat at the piano) Just beyond this door.
Boy: Ohh, I get it. Beyond this door there is a passage.
Shinji: And at the end of the passage?
Boy: There's more rooms, more passages and stairs.
Asuka: Where's the way out?
Boy: That's not your line! Estelle isn't even in the play yet.
Asuka: What are you talking about?
Boy: Well? Aren't we rehearsing lines? Garcin has just been put
in his room, and he starts asking me about Hell. By the way,
Shinji, I'm glad to see you got rid of the stutter.
Asuka: He didn't! he's still the same stammering moron! We're
being serious, here.
Rei: This is not earth. We are all dead. (She begins to play
Moonlight sonata)
Boy: I know.
Shinji: You know?
Boy: Yeah. I'm the valet, I brought you into your second empire
drawing room one at a time, and all of you have to live out hell with
just each other forever.
Asuka: We're not talking about the...Ayanami!
Rei: What?
Asuka: Don't you know anything cheerier?
Rei: How do you mean?
Asuka: You know. Some type of music that doesn't make me want to
drown myself. Beethoven was all death, war, and gloom. Play something
else.
Rei: Very well (begins to play the theme from "Love Story")
Asuka: Not good enough.
(Rei begins to play "O vos omnes")
Asuka: Listen! Play something by Janis Joplin. Ok?
Rei:(while playing) Sittin' down by my window, ohh, watchin' the rain.
I was just sittin' down by my window, and all around I felt it
but all I could see was the rain. That's when it took hold of me,
baby, it felt to me; cold and hard, ohh, like a ball and chain.
Asuka: OK, stop! (turns to the boy) Now how does wondergirl even
know who Janis Joplin is?
Boy: She's a bright enough girl. I know who Janis is, but nothing
beats her original live performances, so sorry Rei.
Rei: What for?
Shinji: Where did you learn how to play piano, Rei?
Rei: I never did.
Asuka: There! You see? Not only does she know Janis Joplin, She's
also doing the impossible.
Boy: Well if it were impossible, then she wouldn't be doing it, would
she?
Shinji: Hey, could I just ask something.
Boy: What Shinji?
Shinji: Well, what's beyond that door?
Boy:(pauses) We've been over this already.
Asuka:(Grabs him by the collar) Listen! I'm done with games. Forget
the play, forget Janis Joplin. You must be the gatekeeper, as you
can open the doors. I've solved your puzzle, so let me out. Get me
out of this theatre.
Boy: What are you talking about?
(She slaps him)
Asuka: Demon! You can't keep me in Hell. I'll burn it to the ground!
(she sees the keys around his neck) What would these be?
Boy: Guys! Help me out here
Shinji: But...
Boy: What? You don't believe her do you?
Rei: Yes we do.
Asuka: We've all figured it out, so now we're all leaving.
(grabs Asuka's dress and throws her to the ground, she does not take
the keys with her when she falls)
Boy: No, I'll keep you here as long as I want you here.
Asuka: What the hell do you think you're doing?
Boy: I'm showing you what you really deserve (he jumps on top of her
and grabs her breasts)
Asuka:(Screaming) You pervert! Who do you think you-(a red spotlight
beams down on them, Asuka begins to scream) AAAAAh! Turn it off! Turn
it off!
Boy: Hellfire, Asuka, that's what you deserve. You have a heart of
fire. So fire is what you will have.
Asuka: NO! It's burning me! Turn it off.
Boy: No! You violated others in life, so you deserve to violated,
You burned others with your heart, so your heart of fire should consume
you for all time. You know that's the truth. You know you deserve
the fieriest pit in hell, so listen to me know. Asuka, I am the reason
you did not. If it weren't for me I assure you, you would have seen
your flesh feeding an eternal flame.
(the red light cuts off, he lifts his hands from her)
But because of me, you only have to show me your acting finesse. So,
break a leg. (he gets up, and moves to the piano Asuka goes to
the main stage and collapses on her sofa.) Rei.
Rei: Yes?
Boy: Do you know why you're here?
Rei: My heart is not one of fire. Mine is one of flesh.
Boy:(leans on the upstage side of the piano)Yours WAS one of flesh
that's true. (he begins to tap notes on the keyboard)But that flesh
was not from God, but from man. You were made by the hands of man.
Rei: That is true.
Boy: Then I suppose man wanted you but god didn't, that must be why
you are here.
Rei: No, If God did not want me to exist then I would not exist.
Boy: Rei, You are very intelligent. You can understand a fraction of
divinity. Far more than most. If God did want you to exist, why are
you here?
Rei: I did not pass judgement on myself. I cannot say.
Boy: Then let me show you. (He brushes his hand through her hair. A
blue spotlight shines down on them)
Rei: (Balls up)I...I'm so cold.
Boy: That's right Rei, Coldly unhuman. There isn't even enough
humanity in you to save you, only enough to condemn you. You weren't
given much of a soul to begin with, and you hardly did anything with
the one you had, from nothing you came and you wanted to return to nothing,
so you gave others nothing to remember. Emotionless, heartless, cold,
As icy as Asuka is ignited. You're fate should have been to tremble, naked
in the tundra of your own soul. But, because of me (He touches her
shoulder, the light turns off) You don't have to worry about that. I
only want to act along side of you, and see if you can find that
warm spot you make, inside that shell, that body others made for you.
(Pause) Tell the director we'll be ready soon.
(Rei pauses, before getting up and moving stage left)
Rei:(shaken, seeming distant) We'll be ready shortly.
Director: Well it's about time. Shinji?
Shinji: I'm coming.
Boy:(Stopping him, calling to the director) Not just yet. Give me five
more minutes.
Director: Well, OK.
Shinji: No! I'm ready now.
Boy: No you're not, you're just doing as you always do. You're doing
nothing, while other people tell you what to do. You're no better than
Rei.
Shinji: So what? I don't care why I'm here. I'm just here, and that's
it.
Boy:(Slaps his head) Start caring! Start being concerned! Start pissing
yourself! You've been condemned, Shinji. And yet here you are, as
always, doing what? What I want, what the director wants, what Asuka
wants, and you're always hesitant. Do you know why Shinji? (Pause)
(The Boy Pushes Shinji. Dim gray spotlight appears from above, all other
lights go out Shinji alone in the light)
Boy's voice(different than before, booming and threatening): This is your
free will, Shinji.(pause)
Shinji: Wait. No! What is this? Asuka? Rei?
(all following voices are heard Distant and booming as the boy's was)
Rei's voice: Please, Do not move.
Asuka's voice: Stay put, idiot.
Shinji(reacts, as with all proceeding voices): No! Why?
Misato's voice: Because we will harm you.
Ritsuko's voice: We will destroy you.
Shinji: Why do you want to destroy me?
Fiyutsuki's voice: Your free will is dangerous.
Shinji: Maybe so, but it's my will.
Gendo's voice: Incorrect.
Shinji: Father!
Gendo's voice: Not your will, but mine be done. You must submit. You must
surrender your free will, if you want to survive. Stay in place.
Shinji: No! I can't! I hate this place! Someone help! Anybody get me out!
20+ voices:(starting slow, and soft, then rising to a roar) Stay, Stay, Stay
Stay, (Continuing)
Shinji: No! Shut up! Dammit! Shut up! Shut up! Have mercy, I'm
begging you! Someone please get me out! Bastards! Die, All of you, every
last one, die, every one, everything! Damn you all! Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up! Get me out of here! Someone help me!
(The boy grabs Shinji and rips him out of the dim light. At that moment
blackout and silence. Pause.)
(lights come up, Breaking abruptly in several different spots, before
illuminating the whole stage, much like a neon light flicker on effect.
The boy has grabbed Shinji an is staring him straight in the face)
The boy: When Shinji did you ever decide to get (pauses) the hell out of
there?
(Shinji is silent)
The boy: Get on stage. (moves to table, sits)
Shinji:(Gets up slowly, walks to curtain stops, and turns back) If what your
saying is true, how we deserved damnation, then why this why were we spared
that hell to suffer this one?
The boy: Because, Shinji...You are a savoir. So is Asuka, and Rei. You
sacrificed yourselves to save others. Whether you were saviors because of
personal arrogance, total inhuman submission, or utilitarian cowardice, a
savior is what you are, and no God that lives in righteousness could
completely punish one so like his chosen.
(Shinji Turns, back to the stage, then turns back)
Shinji: You're the devil himself.
(the boy Smiles)
(Lights go down. End of Scene 2)
Notes:
Neon Genesis Evangelion is owned by Gainax.
"No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre, Vintage International Version, October
1989 (c) 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 201 East 50th Street, New York,
New York, 10022. All rights reserved.
Being in college will strip your time for anything else to absolutely nil.
(Well, being in any college other than BACL, the drink till you drop, zero
study capital of the world that is) I want You all to know I ain't forgot
any of you readers, I just neglected the crap out of ya! I hope for better
behavior from now on, fic-wise, stay on my ass about it. I WILL finish
this play.
Thanks to the usual set of thugs, Even though we kinda lost touch recently.
But hey, that means we're all getting out a little more! ^_^
Chenalos@aol.com
This story (C) Chenalos
