And the Elephant Moved By Joe McDonald Summary: a one act play which concerns a man questioning his faith in God in the face of a series of setbacks. This is a three…
And the Elephant Moved
By Joe McDonald
Summary: a one act play which concerns a man questioning his faith in God in the face of a series of setbacks. This is a three character comedy with the Man, a Nun and a Drunk.
Characters
Man
Nun
Drunk
Script
LIGHTS UP ON THE INTERIOR OF A CHURCH. A CROSS CREATED BY A SILHOUETTE INSTALLED ON A STAGE LIGHT, IS SEEN ON THE WALL STAGE RIGHT. THERE ARE TWO BENCHES USED AS PEWS. THERE ARE TWO DOORS TO THE CHURCH, ONE STAGE REAR, ONE STAGE LEFT. SOFT LITURGICAL MUSIC IS HEARD IN BACKGROUND. AS LIGHTS COME UP, WE SEE JOE, 50's, SITTING ON A PEW STARING AT THE CROSS. HE SHAKES HIS HEAD NOW AND THEN. AFTER A BEAT OR TWO, HE STANDS, STILL STARING AT THE CROSS, HIS BODY SHIFTING FROM FOOT TO FOOT. HE HAS A CAP IN HIS HANDS. A FEW BEATS AND JOE RAISES HIS FIST IN ANGER.
JOE
It was you that caused it. It wasn't my pet sea bass! You can shake your head and say, "No, Joe, it wasn't me!" You can do that all right and why? Because You're God, and I'm Joe. There's a world of difference between us. It ain't fair, God, and that's the long and short of it. But it really doesn't make a difference, does it?
SISTER CARNIVALUS, 30's, ENTERS AT DOOR STAGE LEFT. SHE STOPS AND LISTENS AS JOE CONTINUES.
JOE (cont’d)
Death is no funny thing, God! Never mind that that You and Your Old Man thought it okay that You should die.... that's between You and Him. But when one of us goes, that's the end of it. You ain't never gonna see old Joe here come outta the ground in three days. No Sir, that ain't gonna happen, is it, God?
JOE SINKS DOWN WEARILY ON TO THE BENCH, CLOSING HIS EYES AND LETTING HIS HEAD FALL BACKWARDS. A BEAT OR TWO AND SISTER CARNIVALUS WALKS DOWN TO HIS BENCH AND SITS BY HIM. SHE STARES AT THE CROSS, THEN TURNS AND SILENTLY WATCHES JOE FOR A FEW BEATS.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Hello, Joe. (PAUSE) It is Joe, isn't it?
JOE OPENS HIS EYES AND LOOKS AT THE SISTER.
JOE
Yeah. Are you a nun or something?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yes.
JOE
Great! Just what I needed in my time of troubles, an eavesdropping nun. That's not very nice, Sister.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
...Carnivalus.
JOE
Whatever.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Aren't you going to say it?
JOE
What?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Hello. I said "Hello, Joe", and you haven't returned my greeting.
JOE
Okay. Hello, Sister Cranialus.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
That's Sister Carnivalus, like in Carnival?
JOE
(Sarcastically)
Oh. I see. My apologies, Sister. I mean, I should be worrying about how to say your name when I'm in such deep...
SISTER CARNIVALUS
...don't say it!
JOE
Right, when I'm in such deep trouble with the Big Guy upstairs.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You want to talk about it?
JOE
No, I don't wanna talk about it.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Why not? You were telling God about it when I came in.
JOE
That's different. He's God and you're someone with a habit. And besides, God already knows what's on my mind (PAUSE, QUESTIONINGLY)...doesn't He?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Of course He does.
JOE
So I can talk to Him in full confidence knowing that since He already knows, than I'm not telling some one my deepest thoughts that should always be kept to oneself. Now, telling you is a different ball game. You are not God. You may be related in some way, but you definitely are not Him and so you don't know everything and therefore it makes sense that I don't have to talk to you about it. So, if you'll excuse me...
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I'm not interested.
SISTER MAKES THE SIGN OF THE CROSS AND BOWS HER HEAD IN PRAYER, MOUTHING WORDS RAPIDLY AND IN A VOICE BARELY HEARD, NEVER MIND UNDERSTANDABLE.
JOE
I can't believe this.
JOE STANDS AND FACES THE CROSS AGAIN.
JOE (Cont'd)
What is this? Some kind of test? I'm here asking for Your help and what do You send me? A nun that's not interested! If You don't think that's funny, then You don't have the sense of humor I always thought You had.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You're right, Joe.
JOE
What?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
When you say God has a sense of humor, you're right. Take a look around you. There's evidence of His humor everywhere.
JOE
Yeah. I know that. Look at me.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
How should I look at you?
JOE
Ah, no, you don't! I always thought that lawyers were the only tricky ones. I never thought that nuns were sly. I answer that question, and you got me talking about it, which I am firmly resolved not to do!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Right.
SHE BENDS HER HEAD AGAIN AND ONCE MORE BEGINS TO PRAY, HER MOUTH QUIETLY AND RAPIDLY SAYING UNHEARD WORDS. JOE LOOKS AT HER. HE TAKES HIS CAP IN HIS HAND AND WAVES IT AT THE CROSS.
JOE
She's doing it again, God, she's ignoring me! That's the trouble to begin with, ain't it? I mean, everyone ignores me. You, most of all! Every year, excepting for the last two years that I have ignored You. Every year at Eastertime, I'd come and talk to You, just sort of stop by to chat, to keep in touch, as it were, and during our interstellar communications, I would ask You for a favor. A little something, nothing world-shaking... MORE
MORE...
JOE (Cont’d)
...Little things, like letting the Mets win the World Series, or having K-Mart serve Shepherds Pie at their food counter...
SISTER CARNIVALUS
...that's it?
JOE
No, that's not it!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Thank heaven! I would hope it would be more important than football and Irish food! So? What's the meat of the matter?
JOE
You know, you have some nerve coming in here and interfering with a guy dealing with his God.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I'm not interfering. How could I? I have no idea about what to interfere with! You are a wealth of non-information.
JOE
Which is how it should be. Like the old guy in "Hamlet" said to his kid, "To thine own self be true". He didn't say spread your problems around!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Joe, that's the wrong interpretation of that line. But still, I am impressed! "Hamlet" indeed! From a man such as yourself.
JOE
Ah-ha! There it is! The same old talking down attitude that I remember from the second grade at St. John's! You people never change! Hey, Sister Cornelius, just because I'm wearing working clothes, don't think I'm dumb. I read Hamlet and Macbeth and Two Guys from Verona.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I apologize. Joe. I deserved that. I had no right to talk to you in that manner.
JOE
Sure, you do! It's part and parcel of being a nun. I accept it. I don't like it, but I accept it.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Are we really like that?
JOE
What do you think? You nuns always thought us kids were stupid, so how else would you talk to us?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Well, my job was to teach. It figures that I'm going to be teaching some one who doesn't have the knowledge.
JOE
Not knowing don't make a guy stupid.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
It doesn't make him brilliant, either!
JOE RISES AND EXITS THE PEW. HE WALKS IN FRONT OF THE CROSS, LOOKS AT IT FOR A BEAT, THEN TURNS BACK TO SISTER CARNIVALUS.
JOE
Why are you here?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
To talk to God. When things don't go right, I come in, sit down and ask Him to explain.
JOE
You ask Him to explain?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You have a problem with that?
JOE
No. That's your business, not mine.
JOE TURNS AND STANDS LOOKING AT THE CROSS SILENTLY. A FEW BEATS OF SILENCE. THEN...
SISTER CARNIVALUS
So, besides baseball and food, how has God failed you?
JOE
You're a tough nut, ain't you?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I'm a nun.
JOE
Right, and you ain't gonna leave this church without knowing. Either that, or I have to go, and I ain't gonna go until I get some answers so I'm in a bind, right?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
(Smiling)
Yep, somewhere between a rock and a hard place!
JOE
That's a pretty good definition of where I am, Sister Colonick.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
...Carnivalus.
JOE
Why is your name so important?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Would you like it if I called you Job?
JOE
Wouldn't be a bad call.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You're trying to find out if God exists, aren't you?
JOE
That is none of your bloody business!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
My! Testy, aren't we?
JOE
Yeah, you could say that.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
God has messed up your life, huh?
JOE
In the 60's, they said that it was all right to hold the communion in your very own hands but I wouldn't do that, because I remember that I ain't worthy enough to touch that wafer because it really is God and who am I to touch God, huh? Then I prayed to Him that I'd meet the right woman and I did and I got married and had two nice kids who grew up to be snot nosed punks but that's all right, because it's not His fault, is it? But later on, I fell back on Him but He was a little less helpful. I mean, I got the distinct impression that I was trying to lean on a shoulder that had no desire to support me. Crazy things happened, one of my kids went gay and the other married a Jewish social worker and little by little God seemed to evaporate like money on a losing horse.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
So? Why are you here?
JOE
Have you been listening to me?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Of course, but you're not on the mark yet, Joe. It's still bare bones, no meat and potatoes!
JOE
All right, the main course it is! He killed my wife.
JOE TURNS AGAIN TO THE CROSS AND YELLS.
JOE (cont’d)
Didn't You? You let her bones rot and break until she couldn't take it, until she had to let go!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
JOE TURNS BACK TO HER AND BENDS OVER, HIS FACE CLOSE TO HERS.
JOE
That's it, Sister, that's what you were looking for! Does it fit? I mean, is it reason enough to question Him?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I can understand.
JOE
I doubt it very much!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No, I can understand your anger, and I can sympathize.
JOE
I don't need that, not one little bit. It's too late to give me what I needed, something a lot meatier than Shepherds Pie!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yes, it is too late, for your wife, but not for you.
JOE
I ain't worried about me.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You wouldn't be here if you weren't.
JOE
Is that why you're here?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
What?
JOE
To make a miracle. Is that why you're here?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I...I don't know. That wasn't why I came.
JOE
Yeah, that's right. You were here to ask God to explain things. What things?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I really don't think...
JOE
...that it's any of my business? Boy, you are a piece of work!
JOE SITS ON THE OTHER PEW, AWAY FROM SISTER CARNIVALUS.
JOE (Cont'd)
I can't believe I'm talking to a nun like this.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I wasn't always a nun.
JOE
Sure you were. You were pre-selected before you were born.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I used to be in the circus.
JOE
Come on!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No, really! I used to be a clown in a traveling carnival.
JOE
You?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yep, me. I had all the greasepaint with a big red smile and bright yellow hair and shoes three feet long. I worked with the elephants, one particular elephant, to be exact. Bando was his name.
JOE
What would you do with old Bando?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I would run in front of him, making like he was about to trample me. Then Bando would pick me up with his trunk and place me on his back, and I'd stand and sing as we'd circle the ring...
SISTER CARNIVALUS STANDS AND SINGS.
SISTER CARNIVALUS (Cont'd)
"Be a clown, be a clown, All the world, loves a clown."
JOE
How long were you a clown?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Until I was nineteen, the year Bando died.
JOE
I'm sorry.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
He was like a pet to me...(PAUSE)...You really do have a pet sea bass?
JOE
(Nodding)
Sam.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Sam, right. Have you noticed that this is a fairly new church?
JOE
Yeah. It still looks new.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You're probably not going to believe this, but before they built this church, this was a big vacant lot, big enough for the carnival.
JOE
Come on, now, Sister.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
It's the truth. The entire side of the block was empty and we were able to put up rides and games as well as a tent with a three ring circus. Hardly the size of Ringling Brothers, but we had clowns, magicians, horses and of course, Bando. As a matter of fact, it was here that Bando died and was buried... (SHE POINTS OFFSTAGE)... right over there.
JOE
You're kidding me!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No one in the carnival ever saw the likes of the night we buried old Bando. The band played New Orleans Funeral jazz and amidst some tears, I said a prayer.
JOE
For an elephant?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Not just an elephant. For Bando! So that night, they struck the tent and crated up the rides and the stalls, and I left the carnival.
JOE
And went into the convent.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yes, and four years later I became Sister Carnivalus.
JOE
Now, I see.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
What is it you see, Joe?
JOE
You went into the convent because you didn't believe in God! When Bando died, so did your faith, because Bando was all that was good, and God killed the one really good thing you knew, and like any clown, you ran away, your three foot shoes leading you to some nunnery where you could prove without a doubt that he ain't real... but things didn't work out the way you thought, right?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No, I found him.
JOE
That's great.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
So can you, Joe.
JOE
I'm afraid a convent is not my cup of tea.
SISTER CARNIVALUS RISES AND RAISES HER HANDS TO THE CROSS IN SUPPLICATION.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
God? Are you listening? I know you're there. Joe here, well, he's having some problems in that direction, but we can work things out among the three of us, right? You've had your share of Doubting Thomases. Here's another one.
JOE
Wait a minute... if you're gonna talk to him on my behalf, put in a good word, will you? Classifying me as a non-believer ain't gonna add any points to my score!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
He knows, Joe, remember? (PAUSE, THEN, TO THE CROSS) So, think on it a bit, will you?
SHE DROPS HER ARMS AND MAKES THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. JOE LOOKS AT HER FOR A FEW BEATS.
JOE
That's it?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yes.
JOE
I mean, you tell God to think on it. That's it?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Uh-huh.
JOE
That's not much now, is it?
A SLOVENLY DRUNK ENTERS AND STANDS IN THE BACK, LISTENING.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
What more do you want?
JOE
Something I can get my hands on!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
(Annoyed)
Well, miracles are not my cup of tea!
THE DRUNK STARTS WALKING TOWARDS JOE AND THE SISTER.
DRUNK
Gimme a buck and I'll give you a miracle.
THEY BOTH LOOK AT THE DRUNK AS HE SITS ON THE BENCH BEHIND THEM.
JOE
What?
DRUNK
Make it five and I'll give you anything you want.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Please, don't interfere.
DRUNK
I ain't doing nothing. I'm just asking for a buck or two.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
For which you'll perform miracles.
DRUNK
You crazy, lady? I can't do anything like that.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Then why did you say it?
DRUNK
Figured since that's what the gent wanted, I'd mention the word and he'd help me out.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Well, it didn't work, did it?
DRUNK
Is she always this nasty?
JOE
She's a nun...
DRUNK
A nun?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I'm not being nasty.
JOE
Yes, you are, and I'll bet that if old Bando was around hearing you, he wouldn't like it one bit.
DRUNK
Bando?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
My elephant.
JOE
...her elephant.
DRUNK
And people think I'm nuts.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Bando would know that I wasn't being mean. He just would know that.
JOE
Right. Elephants have great memories.
DRUNK
(Looks around)
Where am I?
JOE
In church.
DRUNK
What am I doing in a church?
JOE
Listening to elephant stories.
DRUNK
Oh, yeah, elephants. You know, it's funny, but I never saw a pink elephant. I heard about them, but I never saw one. Was your elephant pink?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No, he was old and gray.
DRUNK
Where is your elephant?
SISTER CARNIVALUS POINTS OFFSTAGE.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Over there.
DRUNK
I don't see nothing over there.
JOE
Way over there!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
He's dead. His grave is over there.
DRUNK
Must have one helluva headstone!...(PAUSE)... So you're a nun. Funny, you don't look like a nun.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
What do I look like?
DRUNK
I don't want to call no one names.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No, it's all right, really. What do you see?
DRUNK
You look like a witch.
JOE
Watch your mouth.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
It's all right, Joe.
DRUNK
Hey! She asked me, didn't she? And besides, look at her, all dressed in black. Just like a witch. You know, witches work magic, black magic, so, why don't you work some magic and come up with a miracle?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
That's devil talk!
DRUNK
Well, you never know who you'll meet in a church, which is still confusing to me. I shouldn't be here. I saw the lights. Yeah, that's it, I saw lights and I thought it was a gin-mill, so I came in.
JOE
I can't believe this...
DRUNK
You can't believe what?
JOE
I ain't about to get into this with you!
DRUNK
Why not? Drunks are very wise people...most of the time.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Something tragic happened.
JOE
Knock it off, Sister!
DRUNK
I see, I see. Barely, but I see. Hey, you're right on the mark. There is no God so what are you worried about? Carry on, Sergeant.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
How dare you! Denying God in His very own house!
DRUNK
Look, Sister. You believe what you believe, I'll believe what I believe, and we'll throw it up in the air for him, okay?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
It is not okay. I have to show him God exists.
JOE
Why?
DRUNK
Yeah... why?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
...because.
JOE
No way. I ain't a kid no more. You don't have to teach me nothing!
DRUNK
Yeah, don't interfere (LONG PAUSE) Why does a nun have an elephant anyway?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
(Angry)
I don't have one anymore!
DRUNK
Ohhh.(PAUSE) What are we talking about?
JOE
Confusion.
DRUNK
I thought he was a Chinese-type priest.
JOE
Yes, he was.
DRUNK
He was big and fat.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No, that was Buddha...
DRUNK
I thought that was your elephant's name.
JOE
(Screams)
Enough!
DRUNK
I can't believe I'm in a church with a nun and a guy who believes in miracles. You have a drink, pal?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Not in the House of God, you don't!
DRUNK
I thought priests drank wine all the time.
JOE
Look, why don't you visit Bando?
DRUNK
Where?
JOE
Over there.
DRUNK
Okay, that's a good idea. Elephant must be lonely.
THE DRUNK RISES AND CROSSES OFF STAGE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE GRAVESITE. AFTER HE EXITS, JOE TURNS TO SISTER CARNIVALUS.
JOE
Amazing! This entire evening is absolutely believable!
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Almost miraculous.
JOE
Come on, now.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
No. I mean, that man. He may be your sign.
JOE
This ain't no O'Henry story or nothing. That lush ain't God or an angel or anything. He's a drunk, that's all.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I know.
JOE
I'm beginning to know how you think, Sister Carnivalus, and believe me when I tell you that this guy ain't what you're hoping he is.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
What makes you so sure?
JOE
Because God has more class, that's why. When He worked miracles, He did things in a big way and He never used a drunk to help Him! And He sure as hell wouldn't use someone who don't believe in Him!
JOE AGAIN FACES THE CROSS.
JOE (Cont'd)
Okay, God, times up. The party's over. My wife is gone, I'm here, and you ain't, simple.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
He exists, Joe. Look around the world. There are billions of people that speak to him every day, and most of them don't rant and rave at him when they do!
JOE
You come from the circus. You above all people gotta know that, like Barnum used to say, "There's a sucker born every minute".
THE DRUNK STUMBLES BACK IN TO THE ROOM. THE OTHERS WATCH HER AS SHE REELS ACROSS THE ROOM FINALLY REACHING THE BENCH.
DRUNK
You're right, he's there, but he don't have a headstone.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
We made a wooded cross for him.
DRUNK
I didn't see no cross.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You wouldn't. They built the church on top of the grave.
DRUNK
Nope, didn't see no cross, but the poor old fella moved.
JOE
What do you mean, he moved?
DRUNK
I stood there, right where you pointed, and the elephant moved.
JOE
You mean... you felt movement?
DRUNK
Ain't that what I said? Now, it ain't like the elephant just twitched a bit. I mean, he really moved... shook the floor so much that I almost fell on my...
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Don’t you dare!
JOE
Probably the subway. It runs near here.
DRUNK
No, it ain't no subway. I know that sound
well enough. No, the elephant moved.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I can't believe this!
DRUNK
Neither can I. This is definitely not the way to end a day. I mean, finding myself in church is weird in the first place, but then to stand on elephant's grave inside the church and to feel old whats-his-name turn over in his sleep or whatever, this is not good for me. I need a drink.
JOE
Maybe I'll join you.
DRUNK
If you don't mind, I'd rather drink alone, but I can't do that neither, because I ain't got the money.
JOE REACHES INTO HIS POCKET AND GIVES THE DRUNK FIVE DOLLARS.
JOE
Here's five bucks.
DRUNK
Thanks, pal.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You really shouldn't drink.
DRUNK
(Interrupts)
Hey, pal, think on it. Nun or witch?
THE DRUNK EXITS.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Do you believe it happened?
JOE
No, I don't. I mean, he's just a poor drunk, and drink can play tricks on you.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yes, like sometimes they see pink elephants, right?
JOE
Right.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
But he said he never saw one...
JOE
Right.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Are you going to...?
JOE
Go over there?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Yes.
JOE
Should I?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I don't know.
JOE
Probably nothing's gonna happen. Old Bando's just bones and dust, that's all, and that don't move, right?
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Right.
JOE
On the other hand...
SISTER CARNIVALUS
(Hopefully)
...yes?
JOE
No. There's no chance. Forget it. It was nothing but a bad case of the DT's, that's all.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
(Disappointed)
Yes, that's all.
JOE
Well, it's been one heck of a night, Sister. You gave it the old college try, but it just didn't happen. The Man just ain't there.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
I know He is. I'm sorry you don't.
JOE
That's life. Have a good one, Sister.
JOE WAVES AT HER AND LEAVES. SISTER CARNIVALUS WALKS TO THE FRONT PEW AND SITS IN FRONT OF THE CROSS. SHE BOWS HER HEAD FOR A FEW BEATS.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
Maybe, just maybe.
SHE RISES AND EXITS OFFSTAGE TO THE GRAVESITE. A FEW BEATS AND SHE RETURNS, SHAKING HER HEAD. SHE LOOKS UP AT THE CROSS.
SISTER CARNIVALUS
You have your reasons.
SHE SHRUGS HER SHOULDERS AND STARTS TO EXIT JUST AS JOE RETURNS.
JOE
Forgot my cap. I can’t go anywhere without my cap.
JOE CROSSES TO THE PEW, PICKS UP HIS CAP AND STARTS TO LEAVE. AS THE LIGHTS DIM WE HEAR THE RUMBLE OF MOVEMENT. JOE AND SISTER CARNIVALUS STOP AND TURN IN THE DIRECTION OF BANDO’S GRAVE. THEY GLANCE AT EACH OTHER AND SISTER CARNIVALUS GRASPS JOE’S HAND. TWO MORE BEATS AND WE HEAR THE SOUND OF AN ELEPHANT TRUMPETING. AS JOE LOOKS UNBELIEVINGLY AT SISTER CARNIVALUS WHO SMILES RADIANTLY, THE LIGHTS SLOWLY GO TO BLACK.
END OF PLAY
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