A Comedy of Eros

Act V

Where The Day plays out with its many events; including an unplanned but providential intervention, which bears its fruits.

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Scene I

Juliet's tomb - The garden

Spooky decorations. Fake thunder. Enter Three Witches.

FIRST WITCH:

Round about the cauldron go,

in the poisoned entrails throw.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

With eye of newt make it bake.

She elbows the Second Witch.

SECOND WITCH: (whispers loudly)

Oh, here, take.

ALL:

Double, double, toil and trouble,

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

SECOND WITCH:

And of dragon's scale this jot,

let it simmer in our charmèd pot.

She reaches out to the Third Witch.

THIRD WITCH:

Here is our charmèd pot.

She searches her pockets and hands her a bunch of weed.

SECOND WITCH:

Not that pot, idiot!

She motions to a copper pot laying under a hedge.

THIRD WITCH:

OOK, sorry! No need to get that hot.

ALL:

Double, double, toil and trouble,

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

FIRST WITCH: (sternly)

Wool of bat and tooth of Bolshevik,

All this in to give th'hell-broth some kick.

SECOND WITCH:

Finger of birth-strangled babe

Ditch-delivered by a... Crabe! I said babe!

While trying to cut a doll's finger, the Third Witch accidentally cuts herself and

her fingertip drops in the cauldron.

THIRD WITCH: (holding her hand, offended)

What you mean, I'm not a babe?

FIRST WITCH:

Sisters! Now you'll do as I say.

THIRD WITCH:

Sorry, I'm having a hard day!

The Weird Sisters continued bickering some, then moved away and into Juliet's vault.