Set and design (Mini IP)

Set: Earthly Paradise (common room, swing, hammock, sofa (style picture – to find/built), food – grapes, berry, juices, “wine” in wine cup (to find) -, antique table ..)
*origami butterflies all over the floor = beautiful

 

Lights: gugu + somebody? - hulwa

art students for lamps, Quentin (coloured paper), Levi's light?, lights!!

COMMON ROOM! (also because Max Bell is overbooked!)

Sound: gugu

Beginning: Lunatico, Gotan Project (first 45 sec, after 45 sec low down until no music at 0.49 sec). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cIAn3hv7Ww

End: Gloria, Gotan Project (until 1.20 sec, not more!)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjvPhbctLB8

Costumes (+ make-up; gugu's and ashley's): gugu

colourful pearls (for all sins), 

Deadly Sin	Image	What do we have?
Superbia (pride) Purple - Emily
Invidia (envy) Green - Amelia
Ira (wrath) Red - Terese
Acedia (sloth) Turquoise/blue Belén
Avaritia (greed) Yellow/orange Aneri
Gula (gluttony) Light pink - Ellen
Luxuria (lust) Pink - Alzbeta

Historical and modern definitions of the deadly sins

Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) was a Catholic layman who wrote "The Divine Comedy," which is really three epic poems in Italian: "Inferno," "Purgatorio," and "Paradiso," which are about Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven/Paradise, respectively. In "Purgatorio," Dante places each of the seven sins on a level, with the higher levels closer to Paradise and the lower ones closer to Hell. The numbers in parentheses, in the above table, indicate the level where they are found in "Purgatorio." Dante considers these sins as offenses against love, and groups them accordingly:

Perverted Love: Pride, Envy, Wrath/Anger;

Insufficient Love: Sloth;

Excessive Love of Earthly Goods: Avarice/Greed, Gluttony, Lust.

Deadly Sin	Opposing Virtue	Brief Description
Superbia (pride) Purple Emily	Humility	It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of others, and excessive love of self. Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor."
Invidia (envy) Green Amelia	Love	Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy is almost indistinguishable from pride at times. Those who commit the sin of envy resent that another person has something they perceive themselves as lacking, and wish the other person to be deprived of it. Dante defined this as "a desire to deprive other men of theirs." Envy can be directly related to the Ten Commandments, specifically "Neither shall you desire... anything that belongs to your neighbor".
Ira (wrath) Red Terese	Kindness	Kindness means taking the tender approach, with patience and compassion. Anger is often our first reaction to the problems of others. Impatience with the faults of others is related to this. Wrath may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. Anger, in its purest form, presents with self-destructiveness, violence. Feelings of anger can manifest in different ways, including impatience, revenge, and vigilantism. Wrath is the only sin not necessarily associated with selfishness or self-interest (although one can of course be wrathful for selfish reasons, such as jealousy, closely related to the sin of envy). Dante described vengeance as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite”.
Acedia (sloth) Turquoise/blue Belen	Zeal	Acedia is the neglect to take care of something that one should do. It is translated to apathetic listlessness; depression without joy. It is similar to melancholy, although acedia describes the behaviour, while melancholy suggests the emotion producing it. Dante refined this definition further, describing acedia as the failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul; to him it was the middle sin, the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love.
Avaritia (greed) Yellow/orange Aneri	Generosity	Greed also known as avarice or covetousness is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed is applied to a very excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. In "Avarice" is more of a blanket term that can describe many other examples of greedy behavior. These include disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, or treason, especially for personal gain, for example through bribery. Scavenging and hoarding of materials or objects, theft and robbery, especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all actions that may be inspired by greed.
Gula (gluttony) Light pink Ellen	Faith and Temperance	Temperance accepts the natural limits of pleasures and preserves this natural balance. This does not pertain only to food, but to entertainment and other legitimate goods, and even the company of others. Derived from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow, gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. Depending on the culture, it can be seen as either a vice or a sign of status. Where food is relatively scarce, being able to eat well might be something to take pride in. But in an area where food is routinely plentiful, it may be considered a sign of self-control to resist the temptation to over-indulge. Aquinas went so far as to prepare a list of six ways to commit gluttony, including: eating too soon, eating too expensively, eating too much, eating too eagerly, eating too daintily, and eating wildly.
Luxuria (lust) Pink Alzbeta	Self-control	Self control and self mastery prevent pleasure from killing the soul by suffocation. Legitimate pleasures are controlled in the same way an athlete's muscles are: for maximum efficiency without damage. Lust is the self-destructive drive for pleasure out of proportion to its worth. Sex, power, or image can be used well, but they tend to go out of control. Lust or lechery is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature.

The script (MINI IP) - an adaptation from Lysistrata

Se7en

CAST:

Luxuria: Alzbeta

Invidia: Amelie

Superbia: Emily

Ira: Terese

Gula: Ellen

Avaritia: Aneri

Acedia: Belén

The Page: Anton

Luxuria, Superbia, Avaritia, and Acedia are sitting together, having some tea.

Set: Earthly Paradise (common room, swing, hammock, sofa, food – grapes, berry, juices, “wine” in wine cup -, antique table ..)

·         Luxuria is always seducing the Page every time he comes into the scene.

·         Invidia and Luxuria are constantly fighting (facial and body expressions).

·         Superbia always have something to say! She never lost her attitude!

·         Avaritia is constantly behaving like she wants more and more (she steals a lot)

·         Acedia is apathetic, her present is irrelevant. She doesn’t care about anything and she is negative about everything (notice it when she talks).

·         Ira is irrational, rude, mean, crazy!

·         Gula keeps on eating form the moment she enters in the scene, they are moment when nobody is eating, but she just keep on focusing on food!

MUSIC (while the actresses are entering in the stage): Lunatico, Gotan Project (until 0.40, after 0.45 lower, 0.49 music off). 

Luxuria: (Invidia comes into the stage)

Hello, Invidia.

Invidia: (correcting her pronunciation)

In-vi-dia.

Luxuria:

Whatever.

Invidia:

Good morning, Luxuria.

Luxuria:

Hey, what’s wrong? Frown like that will wrinkle your skin more than it is already now.

(The Page comes on stage, serving; Luxuria starts flirting with him)

Invidia:

Is sex all you can think of? How can you expect people to respect you if you keep acting like this?

Luxuria:

Whoa, girl. Just because I like to boink doesn’t mean I’m a bimbo.

Invidia:

I guess this is why people call you CUNT.

Luxuria:

Is this a negative word?

Listen:

I call it…

CUNT.

I really like it…

CUNT.

Just listen to it…

CUNT.

Tell me,

CUNT!

Say it!

CUNT!

Love that word

I can't stop saying it.

Ira: (enters on the stage, a little bit earlier)

Aahhh stop it!

YOU, you are dirty, your mouth is dirty, and your CUNT is dirty.

Is it ever possible that we can’t drink tea together without dishing dirt and talking trash?

Invidia:

Here comes Ira.

Luxuria:

Speak of the devil.

Ira:(to woman in audience)

You anorexic, bony-assed bitch! Slut! I’ll claw your eyes out if I catch you flirting with my man again.

Avaritia: (grabbing Ira by the hair and pulling her onstage).

Easy, Ira, she was looking at her guy.

Ira:

Bullshit, her eyes were on mine. I know these stuck-up rich bitches with their New Age sensitive males who couldn’t patch a hole in the roof if their lives depend on it – they pretend they’re so much better than us, but all they want is a real man like mine. Yeah, you crave it, don’t you?

Superbia:

Ira, you are late.

Ira:

Well, I’m here, aren’t I?

Superbia:

Are we supposed to thank you for making us wait?

Ira:

Oh, please, so shoot me.

Superbia:

It’s 963 B.C. Guns aren’t invented yet.

Ira:

Sorry, all right? Don’t have a cow. I couldn’t find my bra in the dark..

Luxuria:

In a strange bedroom.

Invidia:

You know all about strange bedrooms.

Acedia: (referring to Ira)

What’s that smell? The pulp mill or your perfume?

Ira:

Was that a joke?

Acedia:

No, but your hair is.

Superbia:

Please, you two, this is important.

Avaritia:

I can’t believe I’m still here, wasting my time listening to your senseless arguments.

Acedia:

Well, if it’s so important, go ahead and tell us – what? Of course there will be nothing to say.

Superbia:

If we don’t stop this war, it will be the end of civilization as we know it.

Acedia:

Which war are you talking about?

Superbia:

I have come up with a plan to put end to 5000 years of struggle and forever abolish war and the threat of global annihilation.

No more Sins. No more tension.

Acedia:

Sounds like we are going to fail.

Luxuria:

Wow. Sounds like fun. How do we do it?

Superbia:

For starters, I’ve invited a woman form Candyland.

Avaritia:

Candylanders? You’ve got to be kidding? They’re all like fundamentalists eating marshmallows all the time. They smell funny, their music is weird and their sense of style is seriously lacking.

Acedia:

Here they are now.

Invidia:

Oh, god.

(Gula enters in the stage)

Invidia:

Hello, Gula.

Gula:

Hello, Invidia.

Invidia:

In-vi-dia.

Gula:

In-vi-dia.

Luxuria:

You’re looking good.

Invidia:

Good? She’s a knock-out. Check out those quads and those gluts.

Acedia:

She does have a nice butt.

Avaritia: (she wants to posses also Gula’s body)

Nice! I wish I had half the body she does.

Gula:

I’ll give you my trainer’s number and he’ll set up a personalized fitness program for you.

Invidia:

I heard you are good eater in Candyland.

(to the audience, almost whispering) They eat too soon, too expensively, too daintily, too much, too eagerly and too wildly;

(to Gula) but you are not fat at all.

Luxuria:

Look at her tits. They don’t sag at all. Man, woman you are built.

Gula:

Go ahead, touch me if you like. I think women’s bodies are more beautiful than men’s, don’t you?

Invidia:

Lesbo.

Gula:

I’m not from Lesbos.

Superbia:

But I am. And proud of it.

Avaritia:

So who called this meeting and why all the top-secret stuff?

Superbia:

I did.

Acedia:

Nice waste of time.

Avaritia:

So what is it all about?

Acedia:

I think we can all agree if the war continues it will be the death of everything, all of life’s simple pleasures…

Luxuria:

Like sex.

(Enters The Page, Luxuria starts to seducing him)

Acedia:

Exactly.

Luxuria:

I haven’t had any in five months.

Invidia:

Really? It doesn’t seems so!

Gula:

It’s been seven months for me.

Ira:

Do you think I care? Do you think I care since how long you haven’t had sex?

I do not!

Acedia:

Yes, I agree with Ira. Why shouldn’t I continue to live in apathy and inactivity? Why should I get involved with a similar plan?

Avaritia:

The only reason why I am here, why I exist, is to possess more and more. If there is no more tension, no more Sins, what else could I possess?

Superbia: (talking to the audience)

I assure you, if you think you have a number one enemy, then it is your PRIDE and nothing else.

Invidia: (to audience)

But it is also your envy.

Ira: (to audience)

And your wrath.

Acedia: (to audience)

And your sloth.

Avaritia: (to audience)

And your greed.

Gula: (to audience)

And your gluttony.

Luxuria: (hanging on The Page and talking to audience)

And your lust.

MUSIC (actors still on stage): Gloria, Gotan Project (until 1.20, not more!).  THE END