<p> FOOL FOR LOVE</p><p>VIVIENNE is a female Court Jester with the Royal Court of King Louis IV of France. </p><p>She speaks with a French accent (‘the’ becomes ‘ze’ etc) and moves acrobatically around the stage</p><p>She wears dirty baggy pants a puffy shirt and a ragged Jesters hat. </p><p>There is a basket on the stage</p><p>VIVIENNE:</p><p>Bonjour people of France!</p><p>And to you King Louis the fourth!</p><p>And your Spanish wife Queen Marie Therese – the fat!</p><p>I am Vivienne the Dim Witted, your former Fool to this Royal court, but since spending time in the dungeon...I’ve been somewhat in between gigs.</p><p>As you know I have been sentenced to death by this razor sharp guillotine, where my head will end up in this basket.</p><p>It seems I am as doomed as the Do Do.</p><p>But I do have some final words…</p><p>Although I have been accused of many things, I am happy to announce that my juggling days are over! </p><p>Especially to you - Archbishop of Burgandy. </p><p>Your holiness, the incident with the kitchen knives was unfortunate and one that I regret. How was I to know you couldn’t catch? Just quietly, I think the pirate look suits thee!</p><p>(She makes a pirate face) Har har! Not funny? Okay take my head then…</p><p>She bends over the basket below the guillotine</p><p>But wait! Just because I’m French doesn’t mean I have to give up so easily! Let me provide the Royal Court of France with one last show. The modern art of… the sock puppet!</p><p>VIVIENNE turns her back and put two puppets on her hands. She turns back. One puppet wears a crown and one has a Jester’s hat on like her own. She changes her voice appropriate to each character</p><p>1 Louis: ‘I am King Louis!!!…the greatest King that France has ever seen!’</p><p>Vivienne: ‘And I am Vivienne…the dimmest fool that France has ever seen!’</p><p>(Whispering to the audience) All characters are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons alive or (soon to be) dead is purely co-incidental!</p><p>Louis: ‘So little Vivienne…how about you give me a kiss – a French kiss?’</p><p>Vivienne: ‘Oh Louis…I didn’t know you cared’</p><p>Louis: ‘I didn’t know I did either!’</p><p>Vivienne: ‘But sire don’t you love me?’</p><p>Louis: (Laughingly) ‘Love? The established Louis dynasty has no need for love. All we need is some Royal Rumpy Pumpy!’</p><p>The Louis puppet starts to get amorous with the Vivienne puppet</p><p>Vivienne: ‘But what about your new Queen Marie Therese?’</p><p>Louis: ‘That fat Spanish trophy? She’s as warm as a dead fish. Now give me a kiss and let me put my baguette in your oven!’</p><p>Vivienne: ‘Oh your majesty if the people of France ever found out you could lose your throne!’</p><p>Louis: ‘Don’t worry fool, if Marie Therese finds out you will lose your head!’</p><p>Vivienne: (Shock) MY HEAD!</p><p>VIVIENNE throws off the sock puppets</p><p>That’s right brothers and sisters of France! The play! The play’s the thing wherein I will catch the conscience of a king! </p><p>King Louis IV is nothing but a gigolo impostor!</p><p>So now let my trial be the spark, which ignites the revolution! Let us rise up against this tyranny! Viva la France!!!</p><p>Viva la…</p><p>VIVIENNE waits for the revolution to start. </p><p>Awkward silence</p><p>2 (Unamused) Okay…you can wait till after my death. </p><p>She moves her head over the basket again </p><p>Rightio Mr Executioner let her rip…but wait…I have some final words!</p><p>She looks up thinking</p><p>You can take my head…but you will never take…MY FREEDOM!!!</p><p>WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THIS MONOLOGUE?</p><p>Buy it online or email David Bulmer at:</p><p> [email protected]</p><p>3</p>