'TUFFET
OUT'
Scene
– anywhere you like really… so long as it has a tuffet
Chorus: Little Miss Muffet, down through the ages
Sits on her tuffet on dramatic stages
The spider beside her enacts all his wiles
Thinly disguised in theatrical styles
Thespis: Brechtian Epic Theatre.
Chorus: "Little Miss Muffet" or "Overturning
The Tuffet" – a play about Revolution.
ActorM: I am an actor playing the part of Little Miss
Muffet, a symbol of the elitist ruling class. See me sit upon my tyrannical
tuffet - an authoritarian dais from which I should be overthrown. Stylistically,
I am supping upon curds and whey which I have stolen from you, the proletariat.
ActorS: I am an actor playing the role of "Spider".
Hey Western capitalistic, fascist, dictatorial, chauvinist, extreme
right wing, reactionary, autocratic, despotic, mogul supping upon the
fruits of my labour. Boo!
ActorM: I am toppled.
