That Boleyn girl | millie o'connell

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"WE ALL DISAPPEAR..." Maiya sings as all the queens stare at her "Wait... I don't get it.." Amelia says into her microphone as a few people laugh in the crowd

"Okay, why does everyone know who we are?" Maiya questions the girls "My sixth finger?" Amelia questions holding out her hand

"Put it away anne!" JJ says shoving the girls hand down "No. Okay, let me put it a different way. Who's Henry VII's wife?" Maiya asks the queens again

"Don't know." Amelia says with a shrug "Anyone?" Maiya asks the others "I don't know." Natalie responds

"Anyone?" She repeats again, when she gets no answer she moves on "Okay, who was Henry VI's wife?"

"I don't know." the queens repeats after a moment of silence

"And Henry V's wife?" Maiya asks them "We don't know." Natalie begins to say but she's interrupted by Aimie "Catherine DeValois - I mean, we don't know." She quickly says

"The point is the only reason these people have come here tonight is once upon a time..." Maiya trails off, "the same guy fell in love with us." JJ finishes almost as if she was realising something

"Right." Maiya confirms "Wait, isn't there a bigger problem here?" Aimie asks looking at the group

"The dissolution of the monasteries!" JJ says immediately in response "not the time, Catherine." Aimie says stopping the girl

"No. I'm talking about us. When we're together as a group, everything-" Aimie says as she cuts Aimie off

"Everyone notices Jane can't dance!" She yells, the girls go to argue but Aimie speaks up yet again stopping the fighting

"This is what I'm talking about. We compare ourselves" She points out "Oh.." Amelia mumbles "and when we're The Six Wives of Henry VIII, we each become just that." Aimie says sadly

"One of his wives." JJ says softly "One of.." Maiya starts off, "Six..." they sing together sadly

"Oh my god, I get it..." Amelia says in a s

"Since the only thing we have in common is our husband, grouping us is an inherently comparative act and as such unnecessarily elevates historical approach ingrained in patriarchal structures" She explains to the queens and audience,

"Yeah I read." She tells them as she notices their stares

"So basically, we're stuck." Maiya points out "What a waste of time!" Jane complains as the queens pace back and forth

"Well there's not much we can do about it now." JJ says in defeat

"You know what would have been really cool tho?" Aimie suddenly asks after a few moments of silence

"What?" Lexi questions the girl "I wish before we spent the whole show comparing ourselves, we'd realize it'd turn out to be such a mess." She explains to the queens

"Oh yeah that would have been good." Maiya tells the girl "Yeah, 'cause if we had realized then we could have done a really cool way to reclaim our stories for ourselves... you know? remove Henry's 'love' from our lives once and for all." JJ suddenly adds on to Aimie statement

"Aw! We could've done that as a song!" Lexi complains in annoyance

"Oh that would've tied everything together so neatly!" Nat says as she places a hand on Lexis shoulder, the other girls surrounding the two

"If only we had thought of it before!"Lexi adds on in faux sadness, after a moment of silence the girls turn to look at the audience who laugh "Guys.. do you think they got it?" Amelia asks quietly into the microphone