Narration

Dear Banjar,
This is my initial draft of the narration for the middle school performance.


It was a different age, a time when men were gods, and gods became men. A time when monkeys ruled kingdoms, demons scourged the countryside, and good was a precious rarity. Yet in one man this rarity was transfused to such a surfeit that all who laid eyes on him were stunned by his perfection. This man, this exiled prince, was named Rama.
Rama had been blessed with a wife named Sita, a woman of such incomparable beauty that to lay your eyes on her was to lose your heart. She, along with Rama and his equally formidable brother Lakshmana, were destined to wander the forests of Dadanka for ten years. But as they searched for a place they might call home, far away in the demon city of Lanka a greedy, lustful king plotted. His name was Ravana, an irresistibly horrible and incomparably powerful demon with ten heads, each more terrifying than the next. Ten heads have many ears, and word of Sita’s beauty had flown across the sea and landed in his fancy.
Ravana traveled to meet his uncle Maricha to contrive a plan by which he might spirit away the wife of Rama. Maricha, though reluctant having heard of Rama’s power, was more frightened of his nephew. He would transform himself into a golden hind, a deer of such extraordinary beauty that Sita’s heart would be transfixed as irrevocably as Ravana’s own. Rama, to please his wife, would have no choice but to hunt the deer, leaving Ravana’s path unguarded. They lay their plan into action…
Rama returned to find their home empty. Where Sita had been taken he knew not. Blood ran russet through his cheeks as rage and despondency entwined round his thoughts. As Lakshmana struggled to encourage him, they stumbled upon a group of creatures, part monkey part god. Their king, Sugriva, and Hanuman, his advisor, son of the winds, enlisted Rama to help them reclaim their kingdom in return for their assistance. This done, the monkeys agreed to help find and liberate Sita, wherever she might be. While they searched the four corners of the earth, Rama waited.

Hanuman had found her, a defiant prisoner behind the impenetrable walls of Lanka. Rama, filled with a new spirit of hope, gathered the monkeys and other creatures of the forest into an army to assault Ravana, king of the demons.


The segments are for before the different scenes. I hope this looks good.
Sincerely,
Eddie