Opening/In a World of Our Own

Alice in Wonderland Parodies Studios presents....

Arren and Therru in Wonderland

Singers: **Arren and Therru in Wonderland**

Male Singers: **How do you get to Wonderland?**

Singers: **Over the hills or underland**

**Or just behind a tree?**

**When clouds go rolling by**

Male Singers: **They roll away and leave the sky**

Singers: **Where is the land beyond the eye**

**The people cannot see?**

**Where can it be?**

Male Singers: **Where do stars go?**

**Where is the crescent moon?**

Female Singers: **They must be somewhere in the sunny afternoon**

Singers: **Arren and Therru in Wonderland**

Female Singers: **Where is the path to Wonderland?**

Singers: **Over the hill or here or there**

**I wonder where**

(*One sunny day in London, England, there were a lot of activities in the park. Kids were either playing games or fishing in the pond. Sitting in front of a tree was a beautiful 13-year-old girl with short dark brown hair, gray blue eyes, and wearing a big red hair ribbon, a long-sleeved purplish black dress, and orange shoes. She is Kiki, and she was currently reading a history book*)

Kiki: (Reading the book) "....leaders, and head been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Murcia and Northumbria declared for him, and even Stigand...."

(*Kiki was cut off when a kid's foot waved at her face*)

Kiki: (Annoyed) Arren, Therru!

(*Sitting on a branch were two 10 year old kids. One of the kids is a 10 year old boy with short dark brown hair, brown eyes, and wearing a short-sleeved royal blue farmer’s tunic, a dark blue belt, dark blue pants, a pair of light tan stockings tied in a brown string around the ankles, and brown shoes. He is Prince Arren, or sometimes known as Prince Lebannen, a calm cool kid who is extremely shy and kind. Next to Arren, the only one who remained quiet, but rolled her eyes in agreement, is a girl the same age as Arren. She has short light brown hair with two long side hairs tied in braids, a light pink first-degree burn scar on the left side of her face, brown eyes, and wearing a hot pink sleeveless dress over a light pink short-sleeved shirt, light tan pants, a pair of beige stockings tied in a brown string around the ankles, and light brown shoes. She is Therru, or sometimes known as Tehanu, who, like Arren, is shy and kind and is more like a gentle person, and she secretly likes Arren, and she's Kiki's little sister. Right now, Therru was making a daisy chain rather than listening to Kiki. Accompanying them on a branch was a black cat with a tiny pink nose. He is Jiji, Therru and Kiki's pet talking cat*)

Arren and Therru: (Confused) Hmmm?

Arren: (Bored, yet realizing) Oh, we're listening.

Therru: (Bored, yet realizing) Go ahead, Kiki.

(*As Therru continued making her daisy chain, Kiki continued reading*)

Kiki: (Reading) "And even Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury, agreed to meet with William and offered him the crown."

(*Meanwhile, Therru placed her completed daisy chain on Jiji's head, making her and Arren chuckle*)

Kiki: (Reading) "William's conquest at first was mo...."

(*She got cut off by Jiji, who had just shaken off the daisy chain and onto her head as Arren and Therru continued chuckling*)

Kiki: (Impatiently) Arren, Therru!

(*Arren and Therru stopped chuckling and turned to Kiki, who removed the fallen daisy chain from her head*)

Kiki: (Impatiently) Will you both kindly pay attention to your history lesson?!

Arren: (Apologetically) We're sorry, Kiki.

Therru: But how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?

Kiki: My dear children, there are a great many good books in this world without pictures.

(*Arren and Therru simply rolled their eyes*)

Arren: In this world, perhaps.

(*He and Therru leaned back against the tree trunk*)

Therru: (Dreamily) But in *our* world, the books would be nothing but pictures.

Kiki: Your world? *(Scoffs)* What nonsense. Now....

(*Then an idea sprung in Arren and Therru's heads*)

Arren and Therru: "Nonsense?”

Kiki: Once more, from the beginning....

(*Therru picked up Jiji and set him on her lap*)

Therru: That's it, Jiji! If Arren and I had a world of our own, everything would be nonsense.

(*Jiji nodded in agreement with a shrug*)

Jiji: I guess.

Arren: Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't.

(*This perplexed Jiji, who shook his head in confusion*)

Jiji: What?!

Arren: And contrary wise, what it is, it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

Jiji: (Shakes his head) No.

(*Arren and Therru jumped down to the ground, and Kiki was too busy reading to notice*)

Arren: In our world, you wouldn't say, "No." You'd say, "Yes, Prince Arren and Miss Therru."

(*He bows while Therru curtsies to demonstrate*)

Jiji: Oh, I wouldn't do that.

(*Arren picks up Jiji as he and Therru started to walk away*)

Therru: Oh, but you would. You'd be just like people, Jiji, and all the other animals too.

(*Arren put Jiji down in a field of flowers*)

Arren: Why, in our world....

(*He begins to sing*)

Arren: **Cats and rabbits**

**Would reside in fancy little houses**

**And be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers**

(*Arren drops a flower on Jiji and he bats it away. Arren and Therru lie down in the flower field*)

Arren: **In a world of our own**

*(Now, it was Therru's turn to sing)*

Therru: **All the flowers**

**Would have very extra special powers**

**They would sit and talk to us for hours**

**When we're lonely in a world of our own**

(*A bluebird lands on a tree branch and begins to chirp as Arren took his turn to sing*)

Arren: **There'd be new birds**

**Lots of nice and friendly howdy-do birds**

(*The bird goes to a small pond and splashes around in it*)

Arren: **Everyone would have a dozen bluebirds**

(*The bird flew back to the branch and dried itself off*)

Arren: **Within that world of our own**

*(Therru took her turn)*

Therru: **We could listen to a babbling brook**

**And hear a song that we could understand**

(*Then Arren, Therru, and Jiji lied down on the riverbank as Arren and Therru finished the song together*)

Arren and Therru: **We keep wishing it could be that way**

**Because our world would be a wonderland**

(*As the song ended, Arren and Therru dreamily touched a river, and their reflections rippled*)

***Coming up: Arren and Therru encounter two rabbits and two ducks, both one adult and one child, and follow them to see what they're late for. Then once down the rabbit hole, the adventures in Underland, or Wonderland as they mistakenly called it, have begun.***