Author’s Note: Yeah, this is my first play to write. . . it’s experimental and that hints some names of places mentioned here. You can submit your comments as much as you want. . . but I only appreciate the sensible ones!

Play Title: Trius Tragedus

Rating: It depends on the person’s maturity and persona. . . but I decided it’s Rated T!

Genre: Drama/Romance/Tragedy

Published On: January 6, 2007

Playwright: Hell Phoenix!

Setting: The setting’s pretty undecided but I think it’s Historical Italy. . . yeah, I got the word “Escalus” in the famous play, Romeo and Juliet. . . but don’t worry, the play’s not a rewritten version of it! It’s originally original. . . and experimentally experimental!

Page Content: Basically the whole play summary so that, you fellow reader, will understand the play itself! Let’s begin! By the way, if looooooong summaries bore you to unending death, then you may skip this chapter but you suffer the future consequences! LOL!

Trius Tragedus

Written by Hell Phoenix

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The Play Process

Day One: Sunday

The play begins in the peaceful household of the noble Levius in the fair streets of Escalus, right in Portia’s chamber, nobleman Sir Levius’ one and only daughter. There is yet another lugubrious whining of the thirteen-year-old heir about her strange feeling of emptiness and vacancy in her heart, which may be attributed as to her being lovesick or someone who craves for the feeling of love. She counsels with her nurse, the fraudulent Flavia Maria about it. Shortly, Flavia gets impatient and soon decides to go out in the streets of Escalus and purchase a herb that will eventually cure Portia from her so-called ‘sickness’.

In the streets of Escalus, while riding the carriage, Portia catches a glimpse of the Prince of Escalus, Prince Patrius and soon feels the rush of intimacy and immediately declares that there is no more strange feeling of inky emptiness in her heart but only of love. She falls in love at first sight with the prince but Flavia sees it yet another nonsensical blather of the heiress and decides to head home.

In the Levius household, Sir Levius, the father of Portia, is arranging his daughter’s marriage to the prince’s beloved cousin, Count Syrus Simone with his two outspoken servants, Vitorio and Vitoria. Sir Levius delivers his will to his daughter and nurse who have just recently arrived from a short visit to the Escalus streets. Portia finds herself crestfallen for she is already in love with Prince Patrius and shall never wed her original fiancé. She yet moans with incessant fury that makes Flavia her nurse, impatient and strongly suggests ending the Count’s life to stop her pathetic whines. Flavia sends out her servant Mansor to kill Count Syrus once and for all for Portia’s sake.

In the palace, King Lucius declares a festivity to be held because of his citizens’ jovial persona and orders his son, Prince Patrius to deliver out the invitations. While the prince is handing out the invitations, he sees the bloodshed scene of his cousin’s body, Count Syrus slained at the nearby Levius household. He hears Portia in the sidelines and accuses her as the one who murdered his cousin. Portia sees Prince Patrius in the scene and sends Flavia to give the lemon-scented flower called ‘Heart’s Delight’ to him since her father consoles her to attend the funeral rite that will happen.

Flavia gives the Heart’s Delight to the heart-wrenched prince. The prince sees Flavia for the first time and mistakenly sees to it that it is she who gives the flower. He soon falls head over heels in love with her and plans an engagement to proceed. The king, seeing the tragedy that befallen his son, agrees to the engagement that will be held on Wednesday. Prince Patrius tells his father that the maiden whom he had saw, Portia, is the one who had killed Count Syrus. King Lucius sends a search party to find Portia and to prepare for her punishment. That night, the prince and Flavia exchanges promising vows of love to each other and decides to make love with each other, still unknown to Portia’s will.

Day Two: Monday

King Lucius summons Sir Levius and delivers the false news that it is his daughter Portia who had killed his nephew. Prince Patrius goes with his father and sees the apple of his eye, Flavia. Both the king and the prince are outraged for Flavia is in the Levius household and the king can’t let his son marry a woman who is the murderer’s nurse. He decides to capture Flavia with the innocent Portia but the prince defends her and soon decides to flee to avoid the king’s guards to capture Flavia. Portia founds out that the prince and her nurse had a secret affair to each other and soon whines in anguish for her object of affection doesn’t return her love and doesn’t even know she exist. Prince Patrius and Flavia flee to the kindly priest, Priest Paolo, also the prince’s counselor and decided to be wedded at once in secret.

Meanwhile, King Lucius talks to Sir Levius of Portia’s banishment from Escalus to a nearby ghost town in the following crack of dawn. The nobleman agrees solemnly for he is submissive to authorities and can’t have the power to deny the king’s will. Portia hears her exile and desperately jumps out of her balcony in hopes of seeing Prince Patrius, her love, and escaping the agreed punishment. Flavia and Prince Patrius are wedded instantly in secret and plan to elope to the nearby ghost town, in Simonio. They both encounter Portia among the streets, crying helplessly in a forsaken manner for she is being punished of a murder she had not done.

Day Three: Tuesday

It is already the crack of dawn and the guards are on the way to banish Portia and Flavia her nurse. Sir Levius is found dead in his bed for the grief for his daughter. Hearing the news, Portia is again crying and mourning helplessly on the streets. Flavia becomes impatient to Portia’s whines that she soon depicts a way to get rid of her by ordering the prince, her husband to kill Portia. As Prince Patrius dugs his sword to Portia’s chest, Portia kisses, him in his lips but fails to declare her love for him as soon as the shining steel blade dugs itself beneath her chest. The guards soon surround them and out of sanity; Prince Patrius impulsively kills Flavia and himself by embracing her and dragging the sword to her back, also killing himself in the deed. The king finally finds out about his son’s secret affair to Portia’s nurse and soon the tragedy ends with the king killing himself for his own faults and not realizing his son’s personal affection.