KOVU AND KIARA
A more accurate adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into Lion King format.
Script by William Shakespeare
Adapted by Gene Kahane (March 2009) and Mikokat (June 2009)
A more accurate adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into Lion King format.
Script by William Shakespeare
Adapted by Gene Kahane (March 2009) and Mikokat (June 2009)
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Romeo — Kovu (Outlander)
Juliet — Kiara (Pridelander)
Lord Capulet — Simba (Pridelander)
Lady Capulet — Nala (Pridelander)
Nurse — Herself (Pridelander)
Mercutio — Nuka (Outlander)
Benvolio — Vitani (Outlander)
Tybalt — Kopa (Pridelander)
Lord Montague — Scar (Outlander)
Paris — Himself
Prince — Mufasa
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SETTING
Place: Pride Rock City
Time: The Present
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ACT I: Prologue
Two prides, both alike in dignity
In fair Africa, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
From civil blood make civil hands unclean
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love
And the continuance of their parents' rage
Which but their children's end naught could remove
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage
The which, if you with patient ears attend
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
ACT I, SCENE I
[MUSIC CUE: Romeo and Juliet by The Killers]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtmorUXAwiI]
A love struck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made
He finds the street light, steps out of the shade
'n' says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"
Juliet says, "Hey it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack"
He's underneath the window, she's singing, 'Hey la, my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here, singing up at people like that'
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?
Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start,
And I bet, then you exploded in my heart,
And I forget, I forget, the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame,
Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same,
And I dreamed your dream for you, and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
You can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah
Now you just say, "Oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him"
Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
I said "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die"
And there's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
I can't do the talks, like they talk on the TV
And I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you
I can't do anything 'cept be in love with you
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
And all I do is keep the beat, 'n the band company
And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you, anytime
Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
I said "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die"
And there's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
And a love struck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade,
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made
He finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade
'n' says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"
VITANI: Good morrow, brother.
KOVU: Is the day so young?
VITANI: But new struck nine.
KOVU: Ay me! Sad hours seem long.
VITANI: What sadness lengthens Kovu's hours?
KOVU: Not having that, which having, which, having, makes them short.
VITANI: In love?
KOVU: Out…
VITANI: Of love?
KOVU: Out of her favour, where I am in love.
VITANI: Tell me in sadness, who is that you love?
KOVU: In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.
VITANI I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.
KOVU: A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.
VITANI: A right fair mark, fair brother, is soonest hit.
KOVU:
Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;
And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd
For love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,
That when she dies with beauty dies her store.
VITANI: Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?
KOVU: She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste.
VITANI: Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.
KOVU: O, teach me how I should forget to think.
VITANI: By giving liberty unto thine eyes; examine other beauties. (Takes out invitation for a party and hands it to KOVU.)
KOVU:
(Reading invitation)
Tonight at our mask come crush some wine,
The guests and revelry shall be divine,
Earth treading stars that make heaven light,
To be in their company will be a delight
Be faithful and true, nor do feel bland
But come to the house of old Pridelands.
We'll dance and dine the long night away
But dress as they did back in Shakespeare's day.
VITANI:
At this same ancient feast of Prideland's
Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,
With all the admired beauties of Africa
Go thither; and, with untainted eye,
Compare her face with some that I shall show
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
KOVU: He that is stucken blind cannot
forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost:
Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.
VITANI: I'll pay that doctrine or else die in debt. Exeuent
