Index

The Bit: Growth Rings

An actor enters from 2 with a block a board and a saw. He places the block down, stands on the board he places on the block, and saws on the board slowly cutting the board in two. Another actor enters from 2 with an axe and takes a few whacks at an invisible target with the axe. Then two more actors come in from 2 and grab the axe man with two hands, one on each wrist and forearm. They begin to tug the axe man back and forth as if his arms were a two-man saw and the tree was his body. They pull and step in time 1234. 1234. Stepping on 4 clockwise along a wide circular path around the saw man in the center when the saw team completes the circle the “tree” falls. As the two person saw team pulls the tree off stage by its limbs, the saw man pulls a bow out of his costume and proceeds to play a dirge for the tree bowing on his saw. At the end of the musical saw number the saw player says:

Saw Player:

Cutting bare trees 

the only work to be done 

in the forest 

Saw Player exits out 3 removing the block and the sawed wood.

The Text:

Cutting bare trees

the only work to be done 

in the forest

The Media:

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Dramaturgical Links: Clearing the fields