TIMES LONG FORGOTTEN

Written and narrated by Ben Brown.

The students in this play are at the end of their final year of senior high school. They tell the story of Atlantis and the Atlanteans to the rest of the school in assembly time.

Only one scene.

Student1: Stacey

Student2: Hermione

Head teacher: Miss Kendal

Scene: On stage in the assembly hall.

MISS KENDAL

(MISS KENDAL speaks to the audience.)

Quiet everyone. Quiet please. Thank you.

HERMIONE

Well, this is it.

STACEY

It is indeed.

MISS KENDAL

Okay girls, read away.

STACEY

You start.

HERMIONE

(Hermione begins the story.)

In times long forgotten

Before known civilization

Before history recorded

A land there was

In the mighty Atlantic

A wonderful land

The Motherland

Of known civilization

STACEY

It was a land of treasures

A land of riches

A land of gold

A land of crystals

A land of knowledge

A land of civilizations

Unknown to us.

HERMIONE

Advanced the people were

With unimaginable technology

Not known to us

Lost to us

Beyond our understanding

To be rediscovered maybe

To remain undiscovered maybe.

STACEY

Built grand settlements

Built great pyramids

Built fine temples

Built majestic palaces

Palaces for kings

Palaces for queens

The people did.

HERMIONE

Peaceful those times were

Joyful times they were

When in perfect harmony

The people lived

Harmony with each other

Harmony with animals

Harmony with Nature

Living in high spirits.

STACEY

Glorious times they were

Magical times they were

But last forever

They did not

Chaos was to befall

On the land

Dark times lay ahead

Great cataclysms were coming.

HERMIONE

Came the cataclysms did

Came they did

From outer space

From the heavens above

There came asteroids

Asteroids, which rained down

Upon the land.

STACEY

Far and wide

Great earthquakes spread

Mighty volcanoes erupted

Raging fires spread

High mountains crumbled

Cavern systems collapsed

Lakes were swallowed up

Ash rained down

Cities fell to ruin

Whole civilizations perished

And last of all

The waves rolled in

And submerged the land.

HERMIONE

Dark times they were

Very dark times

But not all was lost

For there were survivors

Who managed to escape

From their homeland

Before it sank

Beneath the waves.

STACEY

The survivors, built ships

And went to sea

To the north

To the south

To the east

To the west

To reach other lands.

HERMIONE

They reached other lands

Far and wide

Across the world

To the north

To the south

To the east

To the west

And started over again.

STACEY

They sowed the seeds

Of ancient civilizations

We know of so well

The Egyptians

The Greeks

The Incas

The Aztecs

The Mayans

And many others

Of the Old World.

HERMIONE

They wrote their history

On gold tablets

On chamber walls

On pieces of parchment

In ancient languages

Languages unknown

To us today.

STACEY

They built great megaliths

Great mega structures

Of the Old World

We know of so well

They built the pyramids

They built Machu Picchu

They built the Sphinx

They built Angor Watt

They built the temples.

HERMIONE

So life flourished

For the survivors

On other lands

But they could not return

To their homeland

To the Motherland

Now beneath the waves

They could not return

To the lost Atlantis.

STACEY

The end.

MISS KENDAL

Well done girls.

THE END

Author Notes: This is the first play I've ever written. I'm already writing a second one.

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