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Act 1 Script Scene 1 Play begins with first song to introduce world state and classes. DHC- So if you will follow me we can continue our tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. As the Director here, I like to personally show the new students around the factory, just to give you all a general idea of the processes here. Generalities are, of course, intellectually necessary evils. Tomorrow you may all settle down to the serious work you have been assigned. - leads group to new room - Student 1 - What is all this? -- Opening Song “You Belong with Me” parody -- Mr. Foster- I hope you will find that all of our technologies are state of the art. Everyone has a place here, and everything is of course very orderly and very stable. I’m afraid i have a lot of work to do and must go now. Scene 2 DHC- We will now enter the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Area. Currently we have a group of Delta infants that we will condition to be against books and flowers. Student 2- I understand about the books, we cannot have the lower castes reading for fear of deconditioning something, but why condition against flowers? DHC- That is a very good question. In the past, the lower castes have actually been conditioned to like flowers. However, a love of nature can decrease productivity in our factories. Traveling to the country is a necessary aspect of life though, so we instead condition our Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons to love country games. (Students nod in admiration) DHC- The last stop of our tour is a Beta dormitory. One of the most important aspects of our children’s education is morality through hypnopaedia. Lets get a little taste, shall we? Speaker- ...all wear green. and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They are too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I’m so glad that I’m a Beta. (pause). Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they are so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad that I’m a Beta, because I don’t have to work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green... DHC-They will have these lines on Class Consciousness repeated to them forty or fifty more times for several months. This technique has proved to be very effective in achieving a stable society. Scene 3 The DHC and the students stand in a group chattering amongst themselves. A nurse quickly walks toward the DHC and taps him. Nurse- I think there may be a problem. There is a little boy who seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play. Ford, I’d noticed it once or twice before and now today. There is this poor girl who is beyond frightened. He lashed out at her when all she was trying to do was play. DHC (to the students)- As you can see, sometimes there are malfunctions with the decanting, makes people go crazy. You see, years ago, they did not have this kind of technology. Long before the time of Our Ford, erotic play had been regarded abnormal, sometimes until over twenty years old! (To the nurse)- Tell the girl to find a new little boy to play with. Scene 4 Fanny – Oh my ford, Lenina! You look quite splendid, today. Special occasion? Lenina – Thanks, Fanny. I quite enjoy your contraceptive belt. Very fashionable. Fanny – Henry gave it to me. Speaking of men, who are you seeing tonight? Lenina – Henry Foster Fanny looks at Lenina in a state of shock and makes a noise Fanny – Ford! Oh, no, no, no. You’re still going out with Henry Foster? You’ve been with him yesterday! And the night before! And the night before! And so many nights before! Lenina – Oh, Fanny. It’s only been about four months now since I’ve been seeing Henry. Fanny – Only four months? Oh Fordy, it’s worse than I thought! What are you doing to yourself? Think of your reputation, Lenina! Your pride! Your sexuality! Lenina- I don’t understand why I can’t be with one person. It’s strange; I haven’t been feeling very promiscuous lately. However, Bernard Marx did ask me to hang. I’ll take up on the offer. Scene 5 Henry- Oh Ford’s sake! Turn that radio off. I want to listen to the sea in peace. I just want to be free. Lenina – You are quite queer. You are free, silly. DO you have chains that I don’t know about? Laughs at her own joke Henry – Wow, do you see that? Look at the sea. Lenina – It’s lovely but I don’t want to look Henry – I like it. It feels like I’ part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body Lenina – Cell… body? Starts to cry. Henry how can you talk about not wanting to be part of the social body? Everyone is important we couldn’t do without anyone. I can’t stand talking to you right now. Such blasphemy. Why don’t you touch me? Perhaps you’ll feel better. Scene 6 Bernard: (To taxi driver) To the Fordson Community Singery! (Taxi leaves; Arrives) Bernard: (Check Big Henry) Damn I’m late (Big Henry sounds “Ford” in background) Bernard: (Walking into room 3210) (Walk in relieved, find a seat quietly) Girl 1: Were you playing Obstacle or Electromagnetic this afternoon? Bernard: (Blushing) Neither. (To himself) What a great day to start of the Solidarity Service! President: (Girl 2 walk in quickly) You’re late don’t let it happen again!” (Girl 2 apologize) Anyway, (President stand up and make the sign of a “T” soft music in background) Group: (Passing around a cup)Ford we are twelve; oh make us one, Like drops within the social river; oh, make us now together run as swiftly as thy shining flivver. Group: (Excited!) 1) He’s coming! 2) I hear him! 3) Oh, he’s comming! Group: Orgy-porgy, ford and fun, kiss the girls and make them one. Boys at one with girls at peace; orgy-porgy gives release.  Scene 7  Lenina: Bernard? What about a game of obstacle golf at St. Andrew’s? Or swim at Toquay Country Club?  Bernard: No! It’s all a waste of time. I want to be with you Lenina, alone, to talk.  Lenina: (Confused) But we will be together all night, but talking? About what?  Scene 8  Bernard: (Flying home, stopping helicopter) (To Lenina) Look!  Lenina: But it’s horrible!  (Song, Bernard to Lenina talking about being free and the world)  Bernard: Don’t you like being with me?  Lenina: But of course Bernard, it’s this horrible place!  Scene 9  Bernard: Director! I have a permit for you to sign.  DHC: (Astonished)For the Mexican Reservation? (Bernard nods his head) (Aside) How long ago was it? Twenty years I suppose. I must have been your age. I had the same idea as you, wanted to look at the savages. I went there with a girl, I think she was a beta-minus, anyway, she was pneumatic, very pneumatic, and it was about the time we were supposed to leave when she got lost. Bernard: You must have had a terrible shock! (DHC becomes angry) DHC: Mr. Marx, I am not all pleased with the reports I receive of your behavior outside working hours. Let this be a warning that if I ever hear of you acting up again, you will be transferred to a sub-division, say, in Iceland. Scene 10 (At Hotel) Lenina: This is simply too lovely, I almost wish we could stay here. Sixty escalator squash-courts..... Bernard: There won’t be any in the Reservation and no scent, no television, no hot water even. If you can't stand it.... Lenina: (offended) Of course I can stand it  Bernard: Very well then. (Journey to Reservation) Warden: (Walking in a group) …..five hundred and sixty thousand square kilometers, divided into four distinct sub-reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence. To touch the fence is instant death. No escape! (Journey to Reservation) Pilot: Malpais! This is the rest-house. And there is a dance this afternoon at the pueblo. Remember they’re perfectly tame!

1) Student tour of Factory 2) Explain decanting and Conditioning 3) States motto 4) Social caste 5) Mustapha Mond 6) Introduce Lenina 7) Explain world state 8) Solidarity Service 9) Ford 10) Bokanovsky 11) Soma 12) Hormones

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