Curtains open.
Stage has cemetery assets present.
A grave keeper with a long beard, a big hat, and worn-out clothes walks to the center of the stage. It’s not possible to see the person’s face clearly. Sitting near a big tombstone. He is happy and friendly despite his hoarse voice.
GRAVE KEEPER: Welcome! Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome! It’s an honor to welcome you this night. But I’m afraid I can’t be of much help to you, you see. People are dying to see me! [Pause] But anyway, jokes aside, the cemetery welcomes you all, no matter if man or woman, kid or elder, if you are beautiful or ugly, if you have a religion or not, if you love or hate, if you are poor or rich… Though the last one may indeed get a better house here, I guess it doesn’t mean you are getting a better place in the afterlife… This is if you ever believe there’s something afterwards. If you don’t, I guess it doesn’t matter if you loved someone or not. But you will know the difference when the time comes. If you had loved so deeply and that other person goes away, you are sure you are going to meet again once more. So how can you tell there’s nothing else? Maybe you just haven’t met love yet! How you can be sure you are loving, you may ask. I can only guess only you can tell, but oh, the signs may show you are in love from miles away! Even when you are apart, you know you want to live the rest of your life with that one special person. If you don’t mind, I may have one special story that has happened here in Rainbow Hills. I can’t tell you much without spoiling it. But it all starts when Mister Cloud Dawnson brings home a young lad named…
Lights fade out.
Curtains close.
End of Prelude.
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