A Freudian Slip of the Jung: The MUSICAL

ACT 1 SCENE 2. SONG: Pick It Up, Martha

(This is a new song for the play. Jamillah Ross is doing the voices for both Minna and Martha - and I am Freud. I wrote this because I always felt the first scene dragged a bit. It was the first scene I had ever written for a play and I felt it was missing something. I decided a song might "pick up" the pace. There is a youtube video you can click on embedded in the script when the song is supposed to start. Enjoy!)

SCENE TWO

SFX : HORSES AND CARRIAGE

MUSIC: A FREUDIAN SLIP OF THE JUNG (INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)

SETTING: 19 BERGASSE, VIENNA - DOCTOR FREUD'S HOME

MARTHA

(SHE IS CLEANING AND SHOUTING UPSTAIRS TO HER SISTER)

Minna!

MINNA

(OFFSTAGE)

Ya?

MARTHA

I need some help down here! When you have a moment bring the children's clothes down from the landing!

MINNA

I'M BUSY! Give me five minutes!

MARTHA

(PUNCHING THE PILLOWS HARD WHILE SHE MUTTERS TO HERSELF)

Five minutes. Five minutes! I'll give her five of these right in the face! How about that sis!?

MUSIC: PICK IT UP, MARTHA

VERSE 1:

MARTHA

MATILDA, OLIVER, ERNST, JEAN, ANNA and SOPHIE!

SIX CHILDREN IN MY LIFE AND YET I'M - OH SO LONELY

ONE BY ONE THEY LEAVE THE NEST

GOD HELP ME I COULD USE THE REST

THEIR PAPA PUTS ME TO THE TEST!

SO I OBSESS ABOUT THE CLEANLINESS INSTEAD!

(SPOKEN) AW SCREW IT!

(SHE THROWS A PILLOW AT THE COUCH)

CHORUS 1:

MARTHA

PICK IT UP, MARTHA!

FREUD AND MINNA

MARTHA PICK IT UP

MARTHA

PICK IT UP MADAME FREUD

FREUD AND MINNA

MAMA PICK IT UP!

MARTHA

DOES ANYBODY THINK ABOUT WHAT I ENJOY?

WON'T YOU PICK IT UP MADAME MARTHA FREUD?

DOCTOR JUNG IS A COMIN' FOR DINNER

AND I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND MY SWEET SISTER MINNA!!

(A SQUEAL AND A SHUFFLE ARE HEARD FROM UPSTAIRS)

MINNA

(SPOKEN) OH COMING! BE RIGHT DOWN!

VERSE 2:

MARTHA

HE LOVED ME WITH A KIND OF PASSIONATE ENCHANTMENT