Lord of the Flies

SCHOOL BELL PEALS

ECHOES OF SCHOOLMASTER: If three points are taken in two sides of a triangle,

and the third side...

..Unde erant praefecti reverti iussit et qua omnibus frugibus ermissi domi vigil erat...

# Kyrie eleison

# Kyrie eleison...

# Kyrie eleison

# Kyrie ele-ison

# Kyrie ele-iso-on. #

AEROPLANES ROAR BIG BEN CHIMES

AEROPLANES THUNDER

FLIES BUZZ

BIRDSONG

Hi! Ouch!

Wait for me. I can't hardly move with all these creeper things.

Them other kids must have got scattered in the dark.

We ought to go and find them.

My auntie told me not to run on account of my asthma.

-Asthma?

-That's right.

I was the only boy in my school what had asthma.

FLIES BUZZ

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

SURF LAPS

BOY COUGHS

-Where's the plane?

-The storm must have dragged it out to sea.

There must've been some kids still in it.

Are there any grown-ups?

-I don't think so.

-What's your name?

-Ralph.

-I hope they don't call me what they did at school.

-What's that?

-They used to call me Piggy.

-Piggy!

Don't tell the others.

Daddy's a commander in the navy.

One day, when he gets leave, he'll come and rescue us.

-Aren't you coming in?

-Oh, it's hot.

-No, my auntie wouldn't let me on account of my asthma.

-Sucks to your asthma!

You can't half swim well.

-Look.

-I've seen a shell like it before on someone's back wall.

A conch he called it.

He used to blow it and his mum would come.

He blew from down here.

You've got it!

CONCH BLARES

Hey, is anyone there?

CONCH SOUNDS AGAIN

CONCH SOUNDS AGAIN

CHATTER

-What's your name?

-Percival Williams Madison,

The Vicarage, Harcourt, Saint Anthony.

Telephone - Harcourt 241.

-And what's your name?

-George.

-What's your name?

-Sam and Eric.

-Sam and Eric.

Sam and Eric.

VOICES SINGING "Kyrie Eleison"

BOYS CONTINUE TO SING

Choir, halt!

-Where's the man with the trumpet?

-There's no man with a trumpet. Only me.

-Isn't there a man here?

-No.

-Then we'll have to look after ourselves.

-Join our meeting.

Put him in the shade.

-Let him alone.

-But Merridew...

He'll be all right. Simon's always throwing a faint.

Let's decide what we're going to do.

That's why Ralph made the meeting so as we can decide what to do.

We've got most names.

They're twins. Sam and Eric.

-I'm Sam.

-I'm Eric.

-I'm Ralph.

-And you?

-Douglas. Robin.

-Yours?

-Charles.

-And what are all your names?

-Henry.

Maurice.

Robert.

Rupert.

Harold.

Bill.

Roger.

Simon.

-I'm Jack.

-That boy, he's...

-Shut up, Fatty. You talk too much.

-His name's not Fatty. His real name's Piggy.

-Piggy?!

BOYS SHOUT INSULTS

-We've got to decide about being rescued.

-We ought to have a chief.

-RIPPLE OF AGREEMENT

-I ought to be chief.

I'm chief chorister and head boy.

Let's have a vote.

All right, we'll have a vote. Who wants Jack for chief?

Who wants me?

CHORUS OF "Me!"

I'm chief, then.

BOYS CHEER

Jack's in charge of the choir. What do you want them to be?

Hunters. Choir, take off your togs.

Why are you wearing those funny clothes?

It's our uniform.

LAUGHTER

If this isn't an island, we might get rescued straightaway,

so we've got to decide if it is.

Three of us will go on an expedition to find out. I'll go, and Jack and...

You.

-BOYS: Take me!

-I'll come.

-We don't want you.

-I was with him when he found the conch.

I was with him before anyone else was.

You CAN'T come.

You told them, after what I said.

After I said I didn't want...

-What are you talking about?

-About being called Piggy.

I said I didn't care as long as they didn't call me Piggy.

And I said not to tell.

-And then you went and said straight out.

-Better Piggy than Fatty.

I'm sorry if you feel like that.

Go back, Piggy, and take names. That's your job. So long.

Hey, look!

-One, two, three...

-ALL: Heave!

Heave!

BIRDS SQUAWK

FLIES BUZZ

We're on an uninhabited island.

We shall have to look after ourselves. But it's a good island.

There's lots of fruit, water,

and I'm pretty sure there aren't any dangerous animals.

So things aren't so bad.

None of us are hurt. There isn't any danger.

And we can build shelters and be comfortable.

If we're sensible, if we do things properly,

if we don't lose our heads, we'll be all right.

-Where will we sleep?

-We'll build shelters.

And another thing - we can't have everybody speaking at once.

We shall have to put our hands up like at school,

then I'll hand him the conch.

I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them.

After all, we're not savages, we're English.

And the English are best at everything.

We'll have lots of rules and when anybody breaks them...

-BOYS: Piggy! Piggy!

-QUIET!

-You're not letting Ralph get to the most important thing.

Who knows we're here?

Nobody knows we're here.

Perhaps they knew where we were going to, perhaps not.

But they don't know where we are now,

cos we never got there.

We might stay here till we die!

He wants to know what you're going to do about the snake thing.

BOYS GIGGLE

Tell us about the snake thing.

-Now he says it was a beastie.

-BEASTIE?!

-A snake thing, ever so big. He saw it.

-When?

When he was hiding in the jungle in the dark.

He says, when the rain stopped,

it turned into one of them things like ropes in the trees

and hung in the branches. He says, will it come back tonight?

But there isn't a beastie.

I tell you, there isn't a beast.

-Ralph's right. There isn't a beast.

-But if there was, we'd kill it.

If a ship comes near the island,

they may not notice us, so we must make smoke on top of the mountain.

-We must make a fire.

-Follow me!

Just like kids! Like a crowd of kids!

I bet it's gone tea time.

BOYS SHOUT AND LAUGH

CHEERING

Anybody got any matches?

My, what a big heap you've made!

Piggy's specs! Come on!

Get out the light!

Roger, come on over here.

BOYS MURMUR AMONG THEMSELVES

My specs!

Ralph, I'll split up my choir, my hunters that is,

and we'll keep the fire going.

BOYS CHEER

We'll make a big blaze and it'll last all night.

Come and give us a hand, will you?

SQUEAKING

WHISTLING

BIRDS SQUAWK

Attention!

This is a large one.

Oh!

Come on! Come on! Come on!

A-a-a-AA-a-a!

BOYS SQUEAL

AEROPLANE OVERHEAD

Ralph, come here, it's a plane!

A plane! A plane! Can't you hear it? Hurry up, Ralph!

I can't see no smoke. Where is it?

Piggy's glasses. If the fire's out, we'll need them.

ENGINE WHISTLES

SILENCE

No! Come back! Come back!

COME BACK! COME BACK!

They'd let the bloody fire out.

BOYS CHANTING

Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!

Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!

Kill the pig!

Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!

-Look, we killed a pig.

-You let the fire out.

We can light it up again.

You should've been with us, Ralph. There was lots of blood.

There was a plane. There was a PLANE!

-BOYS FALL SILENT

-We might have gone home.

You and your blood, Jack Merridew!

-You and your hunting! We might have gone home.

-We needed meat.

You didn't ought to have let the fire go out.

-My specs!

-Here they are.

Just you wait!

That was a dirty trick.

All right, all right! I'm sorry.

About the fire, I mean!

There, I apologise.

BOYS MURMUR

Light the fire, then.

Choir!

Piggy.

-Ralph, don't, please!

-I'll bring them back.

ALL CLAMOUR FOR MEAT

Give me! Give it to me!

Give me a piece, please!

MUNCHING AND RIPPING FLESH

BURP

GIGGLES

Aren't I having none?

-You didn't hunt.

-No more did Ralph, no more did Simon.

Eat, damn you!

-Oink! Oink! Oink!

-Kill the pig!

THEY CHANT: Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!

QUIET! Get down on the beach. I'm calling an assembly.

Things are beginning to break up.

I don't know why.

It began well. Then people started forgetting what really matters.

The most important thing, for all of us, is getting rescued.

Now let's discuss who does what.

And when we've decided, we can start again.

And be careful about things like the fire.

All right - so the fire went out.

But we're hunters. We got you meat.

And if there is a beast, it's my hunters who'll protect you from it.

ALL CHEER

What's your name?

CHANTING: What's your name? What's your name?

What's your name? What's your name? What's your name? What's your name?

QUIET! QUIET!

What's your name?

Percival Williams Madison, The Vicarage, Harcourt, St Anthony.

Telephone...

Telephone...

Tele...

GIGGLES

HE HOWLS

ALL START LAUGHING

What did he say?

He said there's a Beast. Comes out of the sea.

My daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea.

My daddy said there were animals...

What do you call them? They make ink and are hundreds of feet long.

They'd eat one of us whole.

A squid can't come out of the sea.

Maybe he means it's some sort of ghost.

Maybe that's what the Beast is - a ghost.

I don't believe in no ghosts - ever.

Who cares what you believe, Fatty?

Maybe if there is a Beast...

LAUGHTER

Hear him. He's got the conch.

What I mean is...

maybe it's only us.

Nut!

We should have left all this till daylight.

We're tired.

We'll have a vote, on ghosts, I mean,

then go back to the shelters.

Who thinks there may be ghosts?

I see.

I didn't vote for no ghosts!

-Remember that, all of you.

-Shut up, you fat slug!

-I got the conch.

-Jack, let him speak. He's got the conch.

Shut up. Who are you, telling people what to do? You can't hunt...

-I was chosen.

-Why does that make a difference?

-Piggy's got the conch.

-Favour Piggy as usual(!)

-Jack!

-"Jack!"

-You're breaking the rules.

-Who cares?

-They're all we've got.

Bollocks to the rules! We'll find the Beast and beat and beat!

ALL SCREAM

What's grown-ups going to say? Look at 'em!

I think I ought to give up being chief.

You can't, Ralph. Not now.

Blow the conch. You've got to be tough. Make them do what YOU want!

If I blow the conch...

and they don't come back...

then we've had it.

-Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or Beasts?

-Of course there aren't.

-Why not?

-Because things wouldn't make sense.

Houses and streets.

And TV. They wouldn't work.

But suppose...they wouldn't make sense, not here on this island.

Supposing...

things are watching us, and waiting.

Go on being Chief, Ralph.

-Who's there?

-Me - Simon.

I wish my auntie were here.

Oh, what's the use?

Grown-ups know things. They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet,

and have tea, and discuss.

Then things would be all right.

THUNDER

HE BLOWS GENTLY

Sam!

What's the matter?

Ssh!

It was furry. There was something moving behind his head.

Wings.

It sort of sat up.

It had eyes. Teeth. Claws.

We ran as fast as we could. Bashed into things.

The Beast followed us. Nearly caught me.

You're not pulling our legs, are you?

-We'll hunt it. Who'll come?

-Me! Me!

With sticks made of wood? Don't be silly.

-Scared?

-Course. Who wouldn't be?

-Let's go!

-Who'll mind the little ones?

-Piggy.

-Yes - keep Piggy out of danger!

Haven't you got any sense? How can Piggy help with only one eye?

Jack. Is there anywhere you haven't been?

Of course! The tail end part, where the rocks pile up.

SOBBING

I'm chief. I'll go on alone.

The rest of you, wait here and hide.

Do you think...?

I've been all over. It MUST be here.

I...don't believe in the Beast.

I suppose not.

ROCKS FALL

CRACK!

Couldn't let you do it on your own.

What a place for a fort!

-The Beast isn't here. Let's get the others and go on to the top.

-Hoi!

Now, this story is about the place where I live, called Camberley.

Now, Camberley is quite an old place

but it hasn't been called Camberley all the time.

It used to be called Cambridgetown.

They used to get mixed up with the letters

between Cambridge or Cambridgetown.

So letters that were to a person in Cambridgetown

used to go to a person in Cambridge.

They got a bit mixed up so they thought they'd change the name

of the post office,

because the post office had all the trouble of sorting the letters.

They thought they'd leave the "Cam" from Cambridgetown,

and "Ber" is a river, and there are a lot of rivers round there,

"Camber", and "ley" because a lot of the towns near there

ended with "ley".

So they called it Cam-ber-ley, Camberley.

And that's the true story of Camberley.

I don't think we should leave Piggy with the little 'uns. Not all night.

We mustn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we(?)

Someone should tell them we won't be back until after dark.

I'll go. I don't mind. Honestly.

BIRDS CALL

We'll go to the beach.

We can go to the top tomorrow.

If you're frightened, of course...

All right, then, who wants to go now?

-You see?

-I'm going to climb the mountain to look for the Beast. Now.

-Coming?

-I don't mind.

-If you don't mind, of course(!)

-Not at all(!)

It's silly, only two of us going.

If we meet anything on the other side, two won't be enough.

All right. Come along, Roger.

WHISPERS

If you don't want to go on, I'll go myself.

Go on, then. We'll wait here.

(Shut up!)

(Saw a thing on top. There was a noise too. Kind of plop.)

(Keep close to the ground.)

AAAHHHH!

First, you know now, we've seen the Beast.

We crawled up. We were only a few feet away.

The Beast sat up and looked at us.

I don't think we could fight a thing that size. Honestly.

We'd talk, but we couldn't fight a tiger.

We'd hide. Even Jack'd hide.

-What about my hunters?

-Boys armed with sticks?

-All right, then.

He's not a hunter. He'd never have got us meat.

He just expects people to obey for nothing.

He's like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He's a coward.

-On top, when Roger and me went on, he stayed back.

-I went too!

-After.

I went too, then I ran away. So did you.

-Call me a coward. All this talk.

-Talk, talk, talk.

-Right!

I'm not part of Ralph's lot. I'm going off to the rocks to hunt and have feasts and have fun.

Anyone who wants can come too.

Jack!

I said we could do without a certain person.

Now I think we've got to decide.

We can do without Jack Merridew. There's others on this island.

But now we've really got a Beast, though I can hardly believe it,

we'll need to stay close to the platform.

I've been talking, Ralph.

What?

We've got no fire on the mountain, but why not have one down here?

That's a good idea. We can build it right here between the shelters.

I think we ought to climb the mountain.

What's the use?

What else is there to do?

And put some dry leaves on. Make sure they're dry.

If they're wet, it won't burn properly.

Come on!

THUNDER

Come on!

Now!

PIG SQUEALS

SQUEALING LESSENS

Right up the arse!

CHATTERING AND LAUGHTER

Sharpen a stick,

at both ends.

This head is for the Beast. It's a gift.

Can't they see?

Don't they understand?

Unless we keep the smoke burning, we'll die.

What's wrong, Piggy?

Why are things going wrong like they are?

I dunno, Ralph.

# Kyrie eleison Kyrie, Kyrie

# Kyrie eleison

# Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie

# Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie

# Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie eleison

# Kyrie Kyrie Kyrie eleison... #

SINGING BECOMES FAINTER

FLIES BUZZ

INSISTENT BUZZING

THUNDER CRASHES

Looks like we're going to have a lot of rain.

What about the fire?

WILD SQUEALING

Hey! Come back!

ALL SHOUT AT ONCE

THEY SING AND SHOUT

CHANTING

FRENZIED CHANTING AND SCREAMING

Take him some food.

Bananas!

Who'll join my tribe?

Who'll join my tribe?

I will!

I gave you food, and my hunters will protect you from the beast.

-Who'll join my tribe?

-I will!

I'm chief! What about the fire? I've got the conch.

You haven't got it with you. You left it behind.

See? Clever(!) Anyway, the conch doesn't count

on this end of the island.

The conch counts here and all over the island!

CRASH OF THUNDER

-Who'll join my tribe?

-Me! Me!

There'll be trouble.

TARZAN-LIKE CALL

SCREAM

SHOUTING

KILL!

ALL CHANTING: Kill the beast!

Kill the beast! Slit his throat! Bash him in.

FRENZIED SCREAMING AND SHOUTING

Kill the beast! Slit his throat! Bash him in!

Look!

The beast!

Kill!

Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

MUSIC: "Kyrie Eleison"

URINATING

Piggy.

You're the only one left?

-There are some little 'uns.

-They don't count. No big 'uns?

Oh, Sam and Eric. They're collecting wood.

-Nobody else?

-Not that I know of.

Piggy?

Piggy?

-Uh?

-That was murder.

You stop it! What good are you doing talking like that?

It was dark. There was that bloody dance.

Thunder and lightning and rain!

We were scared. It wasn't...

what YOU said.

Oh, Piggy!

It was an accident.

He was batty.

He asked for it. It was an accident.

Oh, God, I want to go home.

Oww!

Oww!

Take him away!

Tomorrow I'll hunt again.

Then we'll leave another head for the beast.

Some of you will stay and defend the gate.

The beast may try and come in.

Remember how he crawled.

He came disguised.

The beast may try and come,

even though we gave him the head of our kill to eat. Be careful.

But didn't we...didn't we...?

No!

How could we kill it?

He told us... the beast was disguised.

Tomorrow, when we get meat, we'll have a feast.

Chief?

-Yes, Bill?

-What will we use to light the fire?

We'll get fire from the others.

-We've got to get out of this.

-What do you mean?

Get rescued.

I mean it.

If we don't get out of here soon, we'll be barmy.

-Round the bend.

-Crackers.

Have you written a letter to your auntie lately?

I don't know where she is, and I haven't got an envelope or a stamp.

And there isn't a pillar box or a postman.

-RALPH LAUGHS

-I haven't said anything funny.

Pig-ee-ee-ee-ee!

Pig-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee!

(Don't make a sound!)

PIGGY COUGHS Is that you, Piggy?

Piggy!

PIGGY TRIES TO STIFLE COUGH Where are you?

We've come to get you! PIGGY COUGHS

Piggy!

I take the conch to say this -

I can't see without my glasses,

and I've got to get them back. What are we going to do?

YELLING

-Hey! Who goes there?

-Stop being silly! You can see who I am!

BLOWS CONCH SHELL

BLOWS SHELL AGAIN

I'm calling an assembly!

JEERING

Don't leave me, Ralph.

You sit down and wait for me.

What do you want?

Go away. Keep to YOUR end.

This is MY end and MY tribe.

-Leave me.

-You took Piggy's specs. You've got to give them back.

"Got to"? Who says?

-I

-say! That was a dirty trick.

We would have given you fire if you'd asked.

-But you sneaked up like a thief.

-Say that again.

-Thief! Thief!

-Who's a thief?

You are!

No!

Remember what we came for! The fire! My specs!

There may be a ship out there... or a plane.

-Grab 'em.

-Jack!

Tie 'em up.

See? They do what I want.

You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!

Let ME speak! I've got the conch!

JEERING

Which is it better to be...

a pack of painted savages like you are...

or sensible, like Ralphie?

Which is better...

to have rules or to hunt and kill?

Piggy!

Sam and Eric! Hey! It's me. Ralph!

When they find me, what will they do?

Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.

They're going to hurt you.

They've to give signals like this...

MAKES WARBLING NOISE Only louder.

You've got to go now, Ralph.

Won't you come with me?

Three would have a better chance.

WARBLING SOUND CAN BE HEARD

-Quick, Ralph!

-I'll be in the thicket.

-They won't think to look so close.

-Who's there?

It's Roger.

Here. Take this.

Guards, attention!

BIRDS SINGING

Come here.

Got Piggy's specs?

Start a fire.

He must be here. Somewhere!

Look around that way.

I'll smoke him out.

Sssh!

Something's moved.

Roger, come on.

I've got the stick.

I told you - he's dangerous.

BOYS GIVE WARBLING CALL

BIRDS SCREECH

SCREAMING HORDES APPROACH

BOYS ARE CHANTING

Kill the pig! Slit his throat! Murder him!

SCREAMING

CHANTING: Kill the pig! Slit his throat! Murder him!

Kill the pig! Slit his throat! Murder him!

CHANTING GROWS LOUDER

CHANTING BECOMES MORE FRENZIED

CHANTING STOPS

HE MOUTHS WORDLESSLY

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