OLha o ato II , saindo do forno quentinho
Autor: Clube de Ciberjornalismo CMCG 2016 | Publicado: 2012-08-31T12:16:00-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Mwjs67yNs


Act
II -  




Characters:
Cecily, Miss Prism, Chasuble, a Merriman, 




Scenery:
Cecily is watering flowers in Jack's [Ernest] countryside house.



Miss
Prism: [calling Cecily] Cecily!! Cecily!!! This is Moulton's
duty!!! Some intellectual pleasure is waiting for you!!!!  




Your
German lesson is on the table. Open it on page 15, to continue
yesterday lesson ...



Cecily
[coming over very slowly]: … But I don't like German, it is not a
language!



Miss
Prism: Child, you know your
guardian laid particular stress on your German when he was leaving
for town yesterday ...



Cecily:
Dear Uncle Jack is so very
serious!!



Miss
Prism: Your Uncle Jack enjoys
the best... I know no one who has a higher sense of duty and
responsibility ...



Cecily:
Maybe, that's one reason it is
so boring when we are three together!!



Miss
Prism: Cecily!  I am surprised
at you!! Mr. Worthing has many troubles in his life. You must
remember his constant anxiety about the unfortunate young man, his
brother.



Cecily:
 I wish  Uncle Jack would allow
his brother to come down here sometimes … good... I have my diary!



Miss
Prism: You shouldn't keep a
diary at all!



Cecily:
I keep a diary in order to
enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I don't write about them,
probably I can forget them ...



Miss
Prism: Memory, my dear Cecily,
memory is the diary we all carry about with us.



Cecily:
I believe that memory is
responsible for all those three-volume novels in the library.
 




Miss
Prism: Well, I wrote one myself
in earlier days. 




Cecily:
Did you? How c lever!!! I hope
it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They
depress me so much!!



Miss
Prism: The good ended happily,
and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.



Cecily:
[rising head] Oh I can see Dr.
Chasuble coming up through the garden … 




Miss
Prism: [rising and advancing]
Dr. Chasuble!! This is indeed a pleasure.

[Enter
Canon Chasuble]



Chasuble:
And  how are we this morning?
Miss Prism, you are, I trust, well?



Cecily:
Miss Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. I think it
would do her much good to have a short stroll with you in the Park,
Dr. Chasuble.



Miss
Prism: Cecily!! I haven't
mentioned anything about a headache!



Cecily:
I felt it instinctively!!



Chasuble:
I hope, Cecily, you are not
inattentive.



Cecily:
Oh, I'm afraid I am.



Chasuble:
[speaking to Ms. Prism] Mr.
Worthing, I suppose, has not returned from town yet?



Miss
Prism: We do not expect him till Monday afternoon.



Chasuble:
 Oh yes, he usually likes to
spend his Sunday in London, with his brother.



Miss
Prism: I think, dear doctor, I
will have a stroll with you. 




Chasuble:
With pleasure, miss, with
pleasure.



Miss
Prism: [talking to Cecily]
Cecily, you will read the Political Economy in my absence, the Fall
of the Euro. It is something sensational to know about the       
European political problems.



[They
leave the garden to have the stroll.]



Cecily:
[opens the book and starts
reading, and throws them back on table] Horrid Political Economy!!!
Horrid Geography!! Horrid, horrid German.



Merrimen:
[enters with a card on a salver] Mr Ernest Worthing 


has
just driven over from the station. He has brought his luggage with
him.



Cecily:
[takes the card and reads it] “Mr Ernest Worthing, B4, The Albany,
W” . Uncle Jack's brother!! Didn't you tell him Mr Worthing was in
town?

Merriman:
Yes, Miss. He seemed very much
disappointed. I told him that you and Miss Prism were in the garden
but he insisted in talking to you privately for a moment.



Cecily:
Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing  to
come here. I suppose there's a room ready for him.



Merriman:
  Yes, Miss. [he leaves]



Cecily:
[looks at the audience] I  am
afraid he looks like ordinary people!! 


Will
he?



Algernon:
[raising his hat] You are my little cousin Cecily, for sure!!



Cecily:
Huge mistake!! I am not little!! In fact, I am taller than anyone at
my age!! But,  yes, I am your cousin and you must be Ernest, the
ordinary brother of my Uncle Jack?!



Algernon:
In fact I've been reckless, I
don't mind on what people say about me!



Cecily:
I am glad to hear that!



Algernon:
Oh, by the way, I am hungry now …



Cecily:
How thoughtless of me!! Won't you come in?



Algernon:
Might I have a button-hole first?



Cecily:
It could be a sunflower?



Algernon:
Maybe a pink rose?



Cecily:
Why?



Algernon:
Because YOU are like  a pink rose, cousin Cecily! You are the
prettiest girl I've ever seen!



Cecily:
 Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare!



Algernon:
They are a snare  that every sensible man would like to be caught!!



Cecily:
Who said that I want to be caught by a sensible man?  I shouldn't
know what to talk about.

[Cecily
and Algy leave the stage]





[Enter
Chasuble and Miss Prism

[Chasuble
and Miss Prism arriving from the stroll]   






Chasuble:
… but isn't a man equally attractive when married?



Miss
Prism: No, married man is ever attractive except to his wife!!!

[turning
to see who is coming] Ohh … Mr. Worthing, this is indeed a
surprise!!



Jack:
 [in a mourning dress, greets with sadness]



Miss
Prism: What happened?



Jack:
My brother!!



Chasuble:
Still leading his life of pleasure?



Jack:
He is dead.



Chasuble:
Your brother Ernest is dead?



Jack:
Quite dead!!



Miss
Prism: What a lesson for him!! The way you sow, the way you reap!



Chasuble:
 Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect! I offer
you my sincere condolence.



Jack:
Poor Ernest!! He died in Paris of a severe chill. 




Cecily:
[from the house] Uncle Jack!!I
am glad to see you back!! …  But what horrid clothes you are on !!
Do go change them!! [Miss Prism interferes: Cecily!!!] Do
look happy!!  I
have a surprise for you!! Don't
you know who is in the living room??



Jack:
 Who?! Who's there? Where?!



Cecily:
Ernest, your brother... arrived
half an hour ago!!



Jack:
What nonsense!! I haven't got any brother anymore!!



Chasuble:
His brother??



Miss
Prism: Wasn't he dead... quite dead??!!



Cecily
enters to take Algy and they come hand in hand



Jack
: Good heavens!!



Algernon:
Bro Jack!! I am very sorry for all the trouble I have been  giving
you!![Algy tires to take Jack's hand but Jack turns back]



Cecily:
Uncle Jack, do be nice!! If you
don't shake hands with Ernest I will never forgive you!!



Jack:
Never forgive me??



Cecily:
Never, never never!!!



Jack:
… but this is the last time I
do it [shaking hands]



Chasuble
: It is a pleasure to see such
a reconciliation! I think we might leave them together...



Miss
Prism: Cecily, will you
come!!??



Cecily:
Certainly …  My little task
of reconciliation is over!!!



Chasuble:
You did a good job today, my child!!



Jack
: You'd better go!! Get out of this place!!! I don't allow any
Bunburying in this place! 




Merriman:
I've put Mr Ernest things in
the room next to yours, sir. I suppose that is all right?



Jack:
What?!! His luggage?



Merriman:
Yes sir!



Algy:
I think I can't stay for more than a week this time!!



Jack:
You certainly will not stay for a week. You've got to leave and
take the 4:57 train!!



Algy:
Leave?! Now??!! I am in love with Cecily, and that is
everything!!

But
I must see her before I go! [Cecily enters] oh there she is!!



[Cecily
waters the flowers]



Cecily:
I thought you were with Uncle Jack!



Algy:
He's gone to order the dog-carter for me!!



Cecily:
oh, is he going to take you for a nice drive?



Algy:
No, he's going to send me away!!



Cecily:
Then we shall leave??!!



Algy:
Yes, we should take the 4:57 train!!



Merriman:
The dog-cart is ready Miss Cecily!



Cecily:
Yes Merriman, wait five minutes … [she takes the diary] 




Algy:
Do you keep a diary Cecily? 




Cecily:
Yes, it is where I write my secrets … is written about our
engagement!!

Should
I write about a proposal now?



Merriman:
Excuse me...Miss Fairfax has just called Mr Worthing. She says it is
very important.



Cecily:
 … Mr. Worthing?! Is Miss Fairfax in one of those philanthropic
work in London? 




Merriman:
Miss Fairfax !!



Cecily:
[Gwendolen enters]: Allow me to
introduce myself to you. My name is Cecily Cardew.



Gwendolen:
Cecily Cardew [moving to her and shaking hands] What a very sweet
name!! I am sure we are going to be great friends. My first
impressions of people are never wrong.



Cecily:
How sympathetic of yours!! Pray sit down!



Gwen:
I may call you Cecily, may I not?



Cecily:
With pleasure!



Gwen:
Perhaps this is an opportunity to talk about me. My father is Lord
Bracknel. You have heard of papa, I suppose?



Cecily:
I don't think so.



Gwen:
You are here in a short visit, I suppose!!

Cecily
: Oh, no! I live here!!



Gwen:
Really... and where are your mother?



Cecily:
I have no mother, nor any relations.



Gwen:
Indeed!



Cecily:
My guardian and Miss Prism look after me!



Gwen:
Your guardian?



Cecily:
Yes, I am Mr. Worthing's ward.



Gwen:
I am happy you are Mr. Worthing's ward but can I say to you that I
wish you were older?



Cecily:
 Why?



Gwen:
Because ... I think … a noble and honest man like Ernest can easily
be influenced by physical charms of others!



Cecily:
I beg your pardon, Gwendolen, did you say Ernest?



Gwen:
Yes …



Cecily:
Oh ... but Mr Ernest Worthing is not my guardian. My guardian is his
brother, his elder brother!!!



Gwen:
Oh but he has never mentioned … any elder brother … well, I think
man do not talk about their brothers … Oh Cecily, I wouldn't
survive without our friendship...but are you sure Mr Ernest Worthing
is your guardian?



Cecily:
Quite [very]sure! 




[Enter
Jack]



Gwen:
Ernest! My own Ernest!



Jack:
Gwendolen!! Darling !!! [he hugs Gwen] [He approaches to kiss her but
she draws him back] and asks him:



Gwen:
A moment! May I ask you – are you engaged to this young lady?
[Points to Cecily]

Jack:
[laughing] To dear little Cecily??! Of course not! What could have
put such an idea in your mind?



Gwen:
Thank you! You may! [Offers her cheek]



Cecily:
[very sweetly]I knew there must be some misunderstanding, Miss
Fairfax. The gentleman who is around your waist is my guardian, Mr
John Worthing.



Gwen:
I beg your pardon!?



Cecily:
This is uncle Jack!



Gwen:
Jack!!Uhh!



[Enter
Algernon]



Cecily:
Here is Ernest!



Algy:
My own love! [he hugs Cecily ][He approaches to kiss her but she
draws him back] and asks him: 




Cecily:
A moment! May I ask you – are you engaged to this young lady?
[Points to Gwendolen]



Algy:
To what young lady? Good heavens!! Gwendolen?!



Cecily:
Yes, to Gwendolen!



Algy:
Of course not! What could have put such an idea in your mind?



Cecily:
Thank you! You may! [Offers her cheek]



Gwen:
I knew there must be some misunderstanding, Cecily. The gentleman who
is around your waist is my cousin, Mr Algernon Montcliff.



Cecily:
I beg your pardon!? [ turns to Algy and asks him] Are you Algernon?



Algy:
I cannot deny it!!



Cecily:
Oh!!



Gwen:
[turning to Jack] Is your name really John?



Jack:
[Standing rather proudly]   Yes, I am John and there is no Ernest at
all. We have no brothers! 




Gwen
[to Cecily]: I am afraid none of us are engaged to any Ernest!![ They
enter  home]



Jack:
This is what we can call Bunburing!!



Algy:
Yes and this is a perfect and wonderful Bunbury! The most wonderful
Bunbury I have ever had in my life!



Jack:
You have no right to be a Bunbury here!



Algy:
That is absurd! One can be a Bunbury wherever one wants!!



Jack:
Nonsense!



(
copy of the Act I, but now with Muffins) … 




Algy: