Caucasian Chalk Circle Script Free Pdf
It is the summer of 1945 in a war-ravaged Caucasian village. Workers from two farming collectives sit in a circle smoking and drinking. The dairy farmers are arranged on the right, and the fruit farmers are on the left. A delegation from the State Reconstruction Commission is also among them. A peasant woman from the left side—a fruit farmer—points out the place where, during the war, she and her fellow farmers stopped three Nazi tanks in their tracks, expressing sorrow that the tanks had already destroyed the apple orchard by the time the farmers stopped them. Meanwhile, an old man on the right side of the stage laments the ruin of his beautiful dairy farm.
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One of the delegates urges his “comrades” to pay attention to the matter at hand: the dairy farm—the Collective Goat Farm Rosa Luxemburg—was once located in the valley where the characters are all now gathered, but moved East after the government warned them of Hitler’s approaching armies. They now want to return their farm to the valley. However, the members of the fruit farm (the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk) want the empty valley to be assigned to them instead.
The delegate charges the two collectives to decide between themselves who should rebuild in the valley. The old dairy farmer offers to explain just why the dairy farmers need their valley back, and urges a nearby peasant woman to unpack some goat cheese from a basket.
He tells the gathered group to help themselves and insists that all he wants from the group is an honest answer as to whether or not they like the cheese. A fruit farmer tastes the cheese and replies that he likes it, but the dairy farmer says that cheese is subpar compared to what their farm produced in “the old days,” as their goats do not like the new grass and are unable to find good grazing land. A woman named Kato, in military dress, speaks up on behalf of the fruit farmers. She has planned an irrigation project to turn seven hundred acres of infertile land into arable land, in order to grow more fruit and support vineyards as well. To make the plan work, though, they are in need of adding the disputed land to their property. She hands over the schematics for the endeavor to the delegation. The girl tractorist proclaims that the fruit farm’s plans were made while they were taking cover in the mountains in between fighting the enemy, and both sides—fruit farmers and dairy farmers—applaud her.
Even the old man from the dairy farm thanks the Comrades of the Galinsk farm for helping to defend the country. He shakes the girl tractorist’s hand and embraces her, conceding that the fruit farmers should have the land. The girl tractorist quotes the poet Mayakovsky, who said that “The home of the Soviet people shall also be the home of Reason.”. The dispute between the farms—which was so tense just moments ago—is resolved when both sides realize that it is fair for the land to go to those who will use it best. The fruit farmers toiled endlessly through the chaos of warfare, making plans under cover of darkness while besieged by violence.
Thus, even the dairy farmers can acknowledge the fruit farmers’ commitment to the disputed land, and their desire for it to flourish more than it ever has before. For both sides it seems that the takeaway from the brief dispute is that ownership and leadership should be given to those with the greatest sense of stewardship and responsibility. Arkadi Tscheidse, accompanied by the girl tractorist and four musicians, enter the gathering. They are all greeted with applause. Even the delegation proclaims that they are honored to meet him, and asks if Arkadi will sing one of his old legends for them. Manga studio ex free. Arkadi says that he will sing an old Chinese legend called The Chalk Circle, but he will be presenting a “changed” version. Arkadi asks if there will be food before the performance, and all of them—delegates, dairy farmers, and fruit farmers—enter the Club House for a meal.
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One of the delegates confesses that he hopes the performance won’t take too long. Arkadi remarks that he is actually going to tell two stories, and that his performance will take a couple of hours. The delegate asks if Arkadi can make it any shorter, and Arkadi replies that he cannot.