Wow! Chapter 2 after only 1 day! I'm on a roll. XD
(The curtains are still closed. Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, and all the other unimportant people are still in the balcony. Bartholomew the Page who is dressed as a girl and Sly walk into another balcony on the other side of the stage, across from Hamlet & co.)
Bartholomew the Page who is dressed as a girl which is really too long for me to type so we're just gonna call him Page from now on: My lord, let's watch this play as well.
Sly: No way! I just had to sit through that play about shrews, and this one's called The Mousetrap. I hate rodents!
Voice From Above: Actually, it's not called The Mousetrap. Hamlet just told me to say that.
Hamlet: Well...well, it's a good title! Isn't it?
Voice From Above: Not really, but whatever.
Sly: Ok then. But the last play was so boring!
Page: Um, sir, did you even watch it?
Sly: I-uh...yeah. Yeah, of course I did! It was about some girl, and this other girl, and this guy, and then...these man-eating rodents attacked the town, and then everyone performed the hula, and...uh...
Page: You didn't watch it.
Sly: Alright, fine. Fine. Be that way.
(Curtain finally opens)
Miranda: Daaaaaddy, there was, like, a giant ship! And it crashed into the island! And OMG everyone's dead! You didn't save them! You could have saved them!
Prospero: They didn't die.
Miranda: I'm not blind! Their ship. Freaking. Crashed. Methinks they are dead.
Prospero: Since when did you start saying 'Methinks'?
Miranda: Since now.
Prospero (aside): Teenagers are weird.
Miranda: I heard that!
Prospero (distractedly): Good for you, dear. Now I made the ship crash because I'm going to tell you something.
Miranda: What?
Prospero: It is very important.
Miranda: Tell me!
Prospero: It will change the course of your-
Miranda: TELL ME NOW!
Prospero: Alright, alright. Basically,
I used to be the Duke of Milan.
Miranda: Oh the heavens! (Shakespearean form of OMG)
Prospero: But I had an evil brother. His name was Antonio. He was jealous of my super-mega-foxy-awesome-hot skills. Plus I was good at magic and stuff. So then-
Hamlet (above)-Claudius, are you listening?
Claudius (above as well)-Um, yeah.
Prospero: As I was saying, so then my EVIL BROTHER WANTED TO RULE, SO HE STOLE MY LEADERSHIP.
Claudius (of course he's still above): Hmm. This seems familiar.
Hamlet (to himself. also above, what did you expect?): I knew it! But I'm staying-just in case. There are a lot more lines like this. (out loud) Nice acting, Prospero!
Prospero: Thanks! Now as I was saying, Antonio sent us to this island 12 years ago and now he's the duke. But I made the ship crash because my return to power depends on a passenger on that ship.
Miranda: Oooh. Wait a minute. What the heck does the ship have to do with you being the Duke of Milan anyway?
Prospero: Er, haha. I'll tell you that later. Now you look like you could use some sleep.
(He waves his magic staff over her head, but nothing happens. Miranda just stares at him blankly.)
Prospero: Stupid staff!
(He shakes his staff violently, and then waves it over Miranda's head again. Still, nothing happens.)
Miranda: Dad, what the heck are you doing?
Prospero: Just wait a second, sweetheart.
(He waves it over her head a third time, but once again nothing happens. Exasperated, he smashes the staff down-onto Miranda's head. She falls over, unconscious.)
Prospero: Well, that works too. I guess it's a good way to tame a shrew.
Page (from above, applauding): Bravo! Wonderful! My lord, how do you like it?
Sly (from above, definitely NOT applauding) It's awful. I'm leaving.
(He leaves.)
Page (above): Wait! You...you can't just leave!
(He runs out after Sly.)
Prospero: Well, now we're rid of those two.
(The curtains don't actually close, but the chapter ends here, so just PRETEND they do.)
Sorry if this chapter wasn't as good as the previous one. The actual scene is just a yawn-fest where Prospero tells Miranda that Antonio overthrew him. Except for that he phrases it in 3 different ways and drags it out for as long as possible. So I didn't have many options with this one. Plus, Prospero and Miranda are the only 2 characters in the original scene, so that was kind of restricting as well.
Page and Sly are from The Taming of The Shrew. They're pretty minor characters, but I had to add them because in The Taming of The Shrew, they're watching the play. So I decided they needed to watch another one. Will they be back? Mayyybe...you'll just have to wait and find out.
I left Hamlet and co. because, hey, I'm a Hamlet fangirl, and what story isn't better without Hamlet? *shrugs*
Again, if you have any suggestions, please review! All reviews are appreciated. :)