PYRAMUS AND THISBE

(SCRIPT)
SCENE 1

NARRATOR: Once upon a time the deep red berries of the mulberry tree were white as snow.
The change in color came so strongly and sadly.

THISBE: Pyramus? Where are you?

SE: THUNDER
SE: LION
PYRAMUS: Thisbe? Her cloak? Thisbe!. This was my fault, if I didn’t came late, is it happened?
I’m the one to blame
SE: THUNDER ----- DECODE

OPENTHECURTAIN --- TAB BLUE --- FREEZE --- 20 seconds duration ---
CLOSETHECURTAIN

SCENE 2: AT MULBERRY TREE

NARRATOR: The forbidden love between the two young lovers, Pyramus & Thisbe. There was a 
Selfless love and they made sure that even in death, they were together.

OPEN THE CURTAIN

NARRATOR: He the most handsome man and a childhood friend of Thisbe, and she the fairest
maiden in Babylonia. 

NARRATOR: Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors. They both lived in neighboring homes and
fell in love with each other as they grew up together. They longed to marry but their parents were
dead against them marrying each other. Their parents were totally against their union, leaving the
young lovers with no option but burn the light of love brightly in their hearts and meet
surreptitiously if they can.

CLOSE THE CURTAIN

SCENE 3: AT THEIR HOUSE 

OPEN THE CURTAIN

(THISBE WILL ENTER THE SCENE)

THISBE’S-FATHER: Where did you go?! How many times we’re going to forbid you, for you to
realize the thing? 
THISBE: Realize the thing? How can I? If I can’t even understand why I need to forget Pyramus
and burn this feeling for him? Father, please? God knows how much I love him.
THISBE’S-FATHER: What? Love? Stupid! I have said it before. I don’t want Pyramus for you.
THISBE: If I could only control my heart, I would stop it from falling in love with him. But love
can control? NO
THISBE’S-FATHER: Enough! My decision is final and it won’t change. Stop seeing with him!
THISBE: But Father? (crying)
THISBE’S-MOTHER: Just follow your father, its all for Good.

(FREEZE UNTIL PYRAMUS & HIS PARENTS SCENE DONE)

(PYRAMUS WILL ENTER THE SCENE)

PYRAMUS-FATHER: What you have done?! Ha! From the very beginning we already say it to
you; we don’t want Thisbe for you! There are lots of ladies over there. Why her?!
PYRAMUS: Father, I love her why I need to explain
PYRAMUS-FATHER: What? That’s what you called Stupidity! Think twice, thrice if needed.
Stop being fool! 
PYRAMUS: Mother?
PYRAMUS-MOTHER: I’m Shame on You! You made me disappoint Son.
PYRAMUS: I’m sorry Mother, but I love her. I hope someday you will understand.

(PYRAMUS & THISBE’S-FATHER, THISBE’S & PYRAMUS MOTHER WILL LEAVE THE
SCENE then)

PYRAMUS: Thisbe? Thisbe?

THISBE: Pyramus?
PYRAMUS: Thisbe is that you? Can you hear me?
THISBE: yeah I could, Pyramus! I’m dying here; I don’t know what I’m going to do after they’re
forbid us but thank God you’re here.
PYRAMUS: Don’t be sad just let me your heart your not alone, me too I missing you so much but
yeah in spite of everything I’m still thankful, imagine God make a way for us to communicate
even through wall. I love you so much, and every time I hear your voice it gives me a reason to
keep you forever.

(PYRAMUS && THISBE FREEZE UNTIL THE NARRATOR HAVE DONE READING)

NARRATOR: Over the years, the lovers could only talk through a hole in their wall because their
parents refused them to see each other.

NARRATOR: Every morning, when the dawn had put out the stars, and the sun rays had tried the
hoarfrost on the grass, they would steal to the crack and standing there. 
NARRATOR: Finally, Pyramus got fed up with his parents and so did Thisbe. One day while
whispering through a crack in the wall,

THISBE: Aw! That was sweet, how I wish I can hug you tight 
PYRAMUS: haha it’s funny but yeah! It’s been years, and I wishing too. I wanna hug you and
kiss you deeply thisbe. Yeah I’m thankful that were still can communicate but I wonder how long?
I love you.
THISBE: Yeah that’s what I’m thinking too, lot’s of question on my mind like When do we get
our freedom to be together?
PYRAMUS: Let’s elope?
THISBE: Ha? 
PYRAMUS: If you will go to me, things would get better. We can leave this town and run forever.
Will you go with me?
THISBE: Yes! Pyramus I will 

NARRATOR: They decided to meet the next night under a mulberry tree near tomb of Ninus.
They decided to elope then. 

NARRATOR: So, the next night, just before the crack of dawn, while everyone was asleep, they
decided to slip out of their homes and meet in the nearby fields near a mulberry tree. Thisbe
reached there first, covered with a cloak.

SCENE 4: AT MULBERRY TREE 

OPEN THE CURTAIN

THISBE: Pyramus? Where are you?

SE: LION
PYRAMUS: Thisbe? Thisbe! This was my fault, if I didn’t came late, is it happened? Could the
lion have killed Thisbe? I’m the one to blame.

THISBE: Pyramus? Pyramus!

PYRAMUS: Thisbe? I’m glad that you’re alive, I’m sorry if I came late.
THISBE: Pyramus? What happened? 
PYRAMUS: Just keep my thoughts, I love you.’ 
THISBE: Pyramus? Pyramusss!!! (CRYING)

THISBE: I can finally see that you're right there beside me. And I am not my own, For I have been
made new, please don't let go, I desperately need you. Pyramus?!

What would I do in this world without my Pyramus? I can’t imagine myself without you, you are
my life "Wait for me my love. I'm coming to you." 
CLOSE THE CURTAIN

The Gods were pitiful at the end and the lover’s parent too. The deep red fruit of the mulberry is
the everlasting memorial of these true lovers
ANTIGONE and PYRAMUS AND THISBE

INTRODUCTION 

[There is a mulberry tree with deep red berries in a peaceful green field on a clear
sunny day.] 

NARRATOR: Once upon a time the deep red berries of the mulberry tree were
white as snow. The change in color came about strangely and sadly. The death of
two young lovers was the cause. 

Pyramus and Thisbe 

ACT I 

[The day is clear and the sun is about to start setting. PYRAMUS and THISBE sit
together under the shade of a tree in a place with bright green grass. It is a high
place overlooking the city beneath. THISBE is in a soft, flowing pink gown and
PYRAMUS is in a white toga. Not too far away from where the 2 are sitting are 2
large white houses, entwined in vines, and so close together that they share 1 wall.] 

THISBE (pointing to a blue bird flitting past): Oh, look how it flies so prettily! 
PYRAMUS (stroking the hair of THISBE): Oh, but not as pretty as you. (gently
kissing THISBE on her cheek) 

[THISBE giggles and lays her head on the breast of PYRAMUS. PYRAMUS covers
her with more gently kisses, his arms around her.] 

THISBE (giggling): Stop, oh stop! 

{PYRAMUS laughs and THISBE starts up.] 

THISBE: I must be going now. I am required at home before sunset. 

[As she separates from him, their eyes meet, and they slowly, passionately kiss, eyes
closed.] 
[A sharp cry pierces the moment, followed by another.] 
FIRST VOICE: THISBE! 
[then] 
SECOND VOICE: PYRAMUS! 

[The 2 turn, startled, still caught in their embrace, to see their outraged mothers.
The mothers pull the 2 away from each other, with each still gazing at the other
through the angry mutters of their mothers.] 

FIRST MOTHER: What would your father say? 

SECOND MOTHER (to FIRST MOTHER): I regret that this happened. 

[The MOTHERS drag their children away.] 

ACT II 

[The scene goes to the house of THISBE. The room she is in has a polished wooden
table with a glass vase of flowers. A painting of Demeter hangs on the right wall. A
door is on the left of the room. A white bench is in the back of the room, where the
PARENTS of THISBE sit. THISBE sits opposite them, in a wooden chair in front of
the window, which is at the front of the room. Stiff white curtains are parted on the
window. The yellow glow of the sunset settles on the furniture. The PARENTS are
dressed in gray.] 

MOTHER: Shame! Shame on you! 

FATHER: You knew better than that, Thisbe. What do you have to say for yourself? 
THISBE: I am sorry…(hesitating) but I love him! (desperately, pleadingly) I love
Pyramus. (more calmly, quietly) 

[Her MOTHER sucks in her breath, putting a hand to her breast. Her FATHER
stands.] 

FATHER: I will hear none of this. 

[FATHER walks out.] 

MOTHER (to THISBE): Go; go to your chamber. 

[THISBE quietly leaves.] 

ACT III 
[It is the next day. THISBE is sitting in her library in a white gown and cloak. The
room is large with many shelves of scrolls lined in columns. There are 2 large,
wooden doors to enter the library. There are large windows in the back of the room
where sunlight streams through, the only source of light for the room. THISBE sits
at 1 end of the room, to 1 side of the windows, reading a scroll.] 

PYARAMUS (from the other side of other side of the wall to the right of THISBE):
Thisbe! 

[THISBE jumps, her scroll clattering to the floor. She goes over to the shelf that is
across to her right. After removing several scrolls from the shelf, she finds a chink
in the wall, with light streaming through it.] 

THISBE: Pyramus! 
PYRAMUS: Oh, Thisbe, I could not close my eyes peacefully without you! 
THISBE: Nor I, my love, nor I! 
PYRAMUS (mournfully, heatedly): Our parents, they would try to separate use, try
to part love. 
THISBE: Oh, where can we be together in freedom? 
[pause] 
PYRAMUS: Why of course, in the open country-the Tomb of Ninus! 
THISBE (breathlessly): When? 
PYRAMUS: Tonight-every night, dear love! 
PYRAMUS: Will we have one kiss before we part, dear Thisbe? 
THISBE: Yes! 

[THISBE gives the chink a long passionate kiss, as if PYRAMUS were there.] 

PYRAMUS: Ah, how you tug at the strings of my heart! 

THISBE: Ah, how you light the night with a luring flame! 

THE VOICE OF THE MOTHER OF THISBE (echoing in): Thisbe, is that you? Who
are you talking to? 

THISBE (to PYRAMUS): I must leave! 

[THISBE starts to pick up the scrolls she removed.] 

PYRAMUS: Do not leave me, I beseech of you, dear maiden! 

THISBE (stopping in her frantic action) (to PYRAMUS): I love you, Pyramus! 
PYRAMUS: I love you twice as much! 
THE VOICE OF THE MOTHER OF THISBE (echoing in closer): Thisbe? 
THISBE: My mother! 
PYRAMUS: Then go, my love, but promise me this: we will meet at the Tomb of
Ninus under the mulberry tree. 
THISBE: I promise! Good-bye! 
PYRAMUS: Good-bye! 

[THISBE frantically replaces the scrolls she removed. Her MOTHER comes just as
she is done. THISBE busies herself with the scroll she was reading.] 

THISBE: Oh, I was just reciting some lines, mother. 

[Her MOTHER stares suspiciously as THISBE. THISBE has heated, rosy cheeks
and is bending over the scroll. It looks as if she has forgotten PYRMAUS. Her
MOTHER, satisfied, walks out of the library.] 

ACT IV 

[It is night, and THISBE is at the Tomb of Ninus. She stands under the mulberry
tree with snow-white berries, which is beside the Tomb. Near the tree is a cool
bubbling spring. Everything is quiet and still. Behind the Beside the Tomb of Ninus
is a deep, dark forest. The moonlight and stars shine on everything below, giving
the grass a blue hue. 
THISBE sees a LIONESS in the moonlight, its jaws bloody, drinking from the
spring. THISBE puts a hand to her mouth, her eyes wide with fright. She slips
behind the shadow of the tree, clutching the tree. As the LIONESS is finishing,
THISBE makes her decision, and runs from the place. As she runs, her white cloak
billowing, rushes away from her, settling on the ground behind her near the Tomb
of Ninus. The LIONESS is on its way back to its lair. It comes upon the cloak.] 

LIONESS (mouthing the cloak): GGGGrRAAaRRRGH! 

[The LIONESS leaves the cloak shredded and bloodstained, disappearing back into
the woods.] 
[A few minutes later PYRAMUS comes in a dark blue toga, sword at his side, and
sees the shredded, bloodstained cloak. He kneels on the ground beside it and lifts
the cloak.] 

PYRAMUS (in a disbelieving whisper): No! 

PYRAMUS (aloud): I have allowed my love, a tender maiden, to come alone to a
place full of danger, and I was not the first one to protect her. 
[PYRAMUS carries the cloak to the mulberry tree, kissing it again and again. He
draws out his sword. It glints in the moonlight.] 

PYRAMUS: Now, you shall drink my blood too. 

[PYRAMUS plunges the sword into his side. Blood spurts over the berries and dyes
them a dark red. PYRAMUS sinks to the ground.] 
[THISBE ventures back to the mulberry tree, but does not see one with the snow-
white berries. She stares closer and sees PYYRAMUS bathed in blood and dying
below. She flies to him, kneeling beside him, and throwing her arms around him.
THISBE kisses his cold lips tenderly, crystal tears trailing down her cheeks.] 

THISBE: Pyramus, oh Pyramus, dear love-look at me, speak, speak I beseech of

you; it is I, Thisbe, your dearest! 

[PYRAMUS opens his heavy eyes slowly to look at her, then closes them forever, his
head gently lolling to one side, and the sword sliding from his hand.] 
[THISBE sees his sword and beside it her torn, stained cloak.] 

THISBE (tears still running silently down her cheeks): Your own hand killed you,
and your love for me. I too can be brave. I too can love; only death would have had
the power to separate us. It will not have that power now. 

[THISBE, still kneeling, takes the bloody sword in both hands and raises it; it glints
in the moonlight, the blood of PYRAMUS dripping from it. She plunges the sword
into her breast, her body bowed. She slides gently to the ground, motionless beside
PYRAMUS. Blood drips from the berries of the mulberry tree and touches the
ground below. 

[The scene fades away.] 

AFTERWARD 

[There is an urn with ashes and a branch of red mulberry berries from a mulberry
tree (beside the urn) laying on a polished wooden table.] 

NARRATOR: The gods were pitiful at the end, and the parents of the lovers too. The
deep red fruit of the mulberry is the everlasting memorial of theses true lovers, and
one urn holds the ashes of the two whom not even death could part.